Snake On The Loose

When I first saw this, while walking down Avenue C last Tuesday, I thought someone had abandoned a cat beside the East 5th Street bus shelter:

Abandoned cat?

I scooched it with my foot, but there was no response.

Giving it more thought, it occurred to me that this was not a cat carrier at all, but a carrier for some lower form of life, like a snake.

Judging by that broken clasp, I'd say the snake got loose…

#eastvillage #avenuec #5thstreet #busshelters #snakes

Cone Adorned

You may notice some of my recent posts refer to pictures taken "lo, these eleven days ago" or "’round about ten days ago"…

So it may come as no surprise to you when I say I was walking up Avenue A a month and two days ago(!) when I saw this orange-cone-adorned bus shelter, at East 3rd Street:

Orange-cone-adorned bus stop.

The bus shelter itself is not so special, apart from being the East 3rd Street stop of the beloved M14A bus — it's the orange cone on top that's special!

You just never know where those things will show up… in the East Village Today!

#eastvillage #busshelters #m14a #orangecones #avenuea #yule

Shrouded Detour Sign

What is there to say about a shrouded Detour sign, at the Second Avenue and East 6th Street bus shelter on Second Avenue?

Shrouded Detour sign.

Shroudy.

#eastvillage #secondavenue #busshelters #signs #detour

Bus Shelter Ad

I've passed by this advertisement, on the outside of a bus shelter on First Avenue, a few times now. When I first saw it, I thought to myself: Only a crazy person would ever read all of this:

First Avenue bus-shelter advertisement.

It was probably one of those cases where the advertiser is contractually bound to produce a certain number of ads in a certain period of time, and the East Village had space available.

But still, whose idea was this, to slap a picture of a Leonard Cohen look-alike onto the drug-facts insert?

I wonder how this works in a magazine?!

#eastvillage #firstavenue #advertising #busshelters