Random Photos: New York City

A few recent photos, from hither and thither, or as NS wrote in a recent email, "here or yon."

A fashion shoot at the New York Public Library. (You didn't think all people did was read books there, did you?)

People noshing at that old "recession special mainstay," Gray's Papaya, in the West Village

An afternoon nap, in Bryant Park at the library (this was not staged)

A life-sized chessboard at an outdoor chess tournament at 34th St., near Herald Square

One of the many empty storefronts in Manhattan, this one in Soho, along Spring

Street scene, Provincetown

Cowboybear (it was the beginning of Bear Week in Provincetown--wouldn't he make an excellent posterman?)

Grand Central Terminal, with the modernist Chrysler Building behind it

An expressionist street artist's rendering of the same

Crossing 42nd St. (I love all the contemporary NY summer indices in this photo)

Another street artist, 7th Ave., West Village

Another street scene, 7th Ave., West Village

Another Village character (note the wreath-as-hat!)

People observing a treeworm of some sort (it's the hanging thing at the photo's center), in Bryant Park