new york is a friendly town

new york city through the eyes of a guy in the throes of a love/hate relationship with the city he calls home.

Friday, December 22, 2006

...no wonder some prefer a narrow hall...

opening, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: phillis levin

Thursday, December 21, 2006

...he couldn't remember what propelled him...

kramer, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: edward hirsch

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

...proving the sky quite useless for protection...

courtumbrella2, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

...it could be a lot worse, it could be happening to you...

smoke-break, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: philip levine

Monday, December 18, 2006

...refractions of the thousand theatres, faces...

crosswalk, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: hart crane

Friday, December 15, 2006

...blinks into worlds of color shrieking...

go down the hole, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: e e cummings

Thursday, December 14, 2006

...out for a walk, after a week in bed...

golden-girls, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: james merrill

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

...so bright her city...

corner, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: george oppen

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

coffee meet sidewalk

coffee meet sidewalk, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Monday, December 11, 2006

...maybe my baby is allergic to their spores...

stroller, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: kenneth koch

Friday, December 08, 2006

...i was one of a crowd...

experience, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: walt whitman

Thursday, December 07, 2006

...confused by the spectacle around me...

guy35, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: allen ginsberg

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

...forgetting that i was an alien ghost...

umbrella, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: claude mckay

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

...i stood there, beneath the city's sequential grids and frameworks...

busstop, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: laurie sheck

Monday, December 04, 2006

...should i get married? should i be good?...

, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: gregory corso

Friday, December 01, 2006

...faces along the bar cling to their average day...

asthma//smoke, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: w.h. auden

Thursday, November 30, 2006

...and how the things men construct in their minds can materialize...

sittin, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: nicholas christopher

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

...today i saw the usual human disaster...

lightup, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: phillis levin

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

...sometimes i get radiant drunk when i think of and/or look at you...

`, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: john ashbery

Monday, November 27, 2006

...outside the leaves were falling and they cried too soon! too soon! ...

bend, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: lawrence ferlinghetti

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

...i call out for you against the jutted stars...

cab, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: amy lowell

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

...they reproach me for my messy life...

courtstreet2, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: erica jong

Monday, November 20, 2006

...i see your faces as i stroll through the cities...

tourists, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: jack micheline

Friday, November 17, 2006

...these yearnings, sometimes they last two years...

2, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: robert polito

Thursday, November 16, 2006

...tall and plural and parallel...

kmart, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: vijay seshadri

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

...his shadow dragging like a photographer's cloth behind him...

shadowland, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: elizabeth bishop

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

...unleavened with reminders of the old city's complicated past...

liz-is, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: david berman

Monday, November 13, 2006

...kitchen sink and all and suddenly realized humor was all that was left...

ac, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: gregory corso

Friday, November 10, 2006

...it is a still night, a very still night...

ice-cream, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: mark strand

Thursday, November 09, 2006

...insert themselves into gas lines then fall poisoned on houses & children...

stroller, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: grace paley

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

...there's water in the sky but it won't come down...

guy33, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: howard moss

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

...say this city has ten million souls...

purple-anarchy, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: w.h. auden

Monday, November 06, 2006

...this grandchild of the shopping streets...

kid2, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: george oppen

Friday, November 03, 2006

...city of hurried & sparkling waters! city of spires & masts...

umbrella2, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: walt whitman

Thursday, November 02, 2006

...to be more or less like other men & women & then to not be at all...

guy32, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: john ashbery

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

...colors of alcohol, reflectors, light...

blur11, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: muriel rukeyser

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

...and even the traffic halt so thick is a way for people to rub up against each other...

squeeze, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: frank o'hara

Monday, October 30, 2006

...out for a walk, after a week in bed...

mattresssssssssssssss, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: james merrill

Friday, October 27, 2006

...who digs new york is new york...

guy31, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: allen ginsberg

Thursday, October 26, 2006

...that is the nature of this city...

blur15, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: grace paley

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

up

up, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

blur13

blur13, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Monday, October 23, 2006

street

street, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Labels: holga, manhattan, new york city, nyc, photo, photography, street photography

Friday, October 20, 2006

guard2

guard2, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

stretch

stretch, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

blur6

blur6, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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model

model, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Monday, October 16, 2006

taxi

taxi, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Friday, October 13, 2006

guy27

guy27, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

woman1

woman1, originally uploaded by Jean_Lafitte.

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