Photos by Rebs

CLICK HERE TO GO TO MY NEW BLOG JUST ABOUT VANITY PLATES!  I can’t walk by one with out taking a picture so I figured I might as well do something with all of them - not just from The U.E.S.

A few months ago I was walking down Park Avenue with Jay Israelson and he […]

During the 1990’s HMV was the major local record store, located on 86th and Lex. Like most giant record stores, new releases were promoted in the windows. Several years ago HMV closed and eventually Best Buy opened. Amidst the shuffling of businesses in 1278-1280 Lexington Avenue which now houses the equivalent of […]

Right now there is a different kind of flower but I usually remember tulips.
I have a system for walking from point A to point B in Manhattan - its goals are to save time and distance. However, I recently implemented an exception to my usual rules.
In the old days, when I would approach a […]

If decadence ever needed a visual symbol, this is it:

Apparently the obscene over-development of these decorative cabbages has not caught the attention of the usually diligent and caring gardeners who design and tend to the flower boxes and plants in the neighborhood. After last night’s freeze the actual drying and wilting of these plants will […]

Whenever I mention the building I grew up in, I invariably get, “Oooh, that’s the building with the flag” or “that’s a fucking big flag on that building.” It is. After September 11 and the proliferation of stars and stripes running up Park Avenue, any building without a flag was suspect in its lack of, […]

I went to two supposedly top private schools, Spence and Dalton, for middle school and high school, respectively, and for all the pep talks they give you about how you can make a difference in the world, they never tell you specifically how easy it is to go to these local meetings, which are open […]

Sent to me from Glenn McAnanama
Discussion: Greenmarkets for the Upper East Side
Community Board 8 Street Fairs Committee
February 23, 2006, 7:30pm
NY Blood Center
310 East 67th St. (Bet. 1st/2nd Ave.)
Conference Room #1
Help bring a green market to your neighborhood.
Green markets bring fresh, locally grown food directly from the farmers without middlemen.
Why Support Local Food?
1. Locally grown food […]

This is just the beginning of a continuing investigation, you might even say focus-group, into why someone chooses to be Republican. Since most people know, and therefore, for now, most of the readers of this zine, will be ultra-liberal, even Socialist (yes, even one Communist), it seems fruitless to write some Bush-bashing piece that […]