DeanLand's photostream

Long work area, no sidewalk, no parking

Snug Grips for the barrier-free corner ramps

Walking the Plank #2

Why they did so lengthy a swath is curious. Smaller sections would have been less disruptive, or so...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

That molding gets planed down to offer a barrier-free handicapped access to all. Those black panels...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

This one looks like one of those bars the Olympic gymnasts walk across.

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

Gravel for the footings of the new sidewalk

This building sold for $13M

Destruction of the old sidewalk

Each day it seemed this pile would be replenished. At one point it was piled higher than that door...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

Location, location, location. Long story, but after a century + of three adjacent buildings being...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

The building shook as the jackhammers and wrecking equipment dismantled the existing sidewalk. Felt...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

First day of destruction

44th Street Looking West.

Midafternoon in Midtown Manhattan

Stop sign, lightposts, other street items all came down as the existing walk was demolished. The...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

Coming from Grand Central this street scene caught my eye.

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

West 44th Street, right by Grand Central.

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

Grading the corner barrier-free ramp with the no-slip panels

A famous seat at Katz's Deli

More Katz's photos

One worker asked me if this was for the local paper. No, the internet, I told him. " I dunno...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

"I'll have what she's having." - Meg Ryan's most famous line. Except Meg Ryan didn't say...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

More Katz's photos

The line at Katz's counter

The price board above the counter at Katz's

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

Sit where Meg sat

A treetop, a powerline, an overcast sky

Open Podcast Device

Or maybe two tables down, where Rob Reiner's mother (Carl Reiner's wife) sat and delivered the best...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

Sounds like an ominous beginning of a scary novel.

All rights reserved

Uploaded on May 28, 2007

0 comments

Dave Winer led a breakout session at the Mobile Identity Workshop in which discussion of an open...

All rights reserved

Uploaded on Jan 26, 2007

0 comments