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warning…annoying crowds to descend on my neighborhood in 10 days. Otherwise known as the latest apple store.

Yesterday, the plan finally came together for a few of the folks from my 365 flickr group to meet in real life and walk around roosevelt island. Which is a really weird place that I have never been to before. Here are the rest of the pics. as always, click to get the full picture.

I took too many pictures and have to do a serious edit, but these stood out amid the unending grey 1960s soviet-style architecture of roosevelt island.

I spent the day today inside this building helping my dad sell cakes as part of a holiday food event. Actual cake pictures to be uploaded only if/when we figure out which ones came out OK.

In addition to yesterday’s photo of the men’s winner, I took about a gazillion shots over the 4+ hours that I watch the marathon. After whittling them down, I’ve ended up with about 60. No individual captions, since that’s just too much work :), but if you look at them in order, at the beginning you’ll see the womens’ winners, then the men, and then the pack. silly outfits and flags start about a third of the way down. I edited out most of the blurry shots except for one, because that was Peter Sagal, host of my favorite NPR radio show, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me. I sent him the pic over twitter last night, and he was very appreciative, so I kept it in the mix, even though the photo itself is kind of terrible (he was way to close to me and my camera didn’t have time to focus before he was gone).

Anyway, here are the pics. click to get the full photo.

Meb Keflezighi, the first American man to win the New York Marathon in 27 years, seen here approximately 250 yards from the finish. I will post more marathon photos soon (within the week), but I took a ton and I have to go through and selectively edit (to say the least).

In my neighborhood, the 69th Street block association has, hands down, the best halloween setup. The entire street shuts down, almost every building turns into a giant halloween exhibit with one house trying to outdo the next. Animatronic spiders, star wars characters actually rappelling down the sides of brownstones, haunted houses, and just tons of people. So instead of dealing with the chaos of the village halloween parade, I decided to head just a few blocks away to take some pics. First, of course, being my favorite costume of the day, and one that only makes sense in NY.

I know it’s probably better for the environment that only one incandescent lightbulb is actually working (in the middle of the day), but it just seemed so…pathetic.

I always love these shops that exist entirely in the empty space between actual buildings.