Usage Quotient
September 6th, 2014“Once you make a park safe and beautiful, you have to give people a reason to use it…” Danny Meyer, restaurateur
Return of Jazz in the City
September 5th, 2014Throwback Thursday: Keep the Footwork
September 4th, 2014
Media personality Tavis Smiley spoke at Corcoran High School in 2008.
The “Dancing with the Stars-Season 19” cast was revealed this morning, and one of the celebs is author/media personality Tavis Smiley.
Throwback Thursday
September 4th, 2014
Old School Baseball Logos
Street gaze (part 33)
September 3rd, 2014
Columbus Avenue at East Genesee Street
Goodbye Summer
September 3rd, 2014
Bridge Street Live (at the Fair) with Acting Fair Director Troy Waffner
The New York State Fair signals an end to summer more than the start of the fall. The attendance for this year’s Fair was 965,147, including a single day record on Labor Day of 122, 870. We will miss those bright, warm and mostly sunny days at one of our region’s best tourist attractions.
Here are some photographs to savor until next year’s edition.
Waterfowl, Poultry Building
Small Fry of Syracuse v. Juju of Utica at the Sports Activity Center
Power Step, Center of Progress Building
Jewelry, Indian Village
Roller Coaster
Living Statues, Touched by Angels
No Ordinary Bull
Ashanti Fans
Gate 4 Entrance
One Black Voice, Live at the Pan-African Village
NY’s Greatest Outdoor Carnival
The Get Acquainted Work-Out
September 2nd, 2014Thanks to the folks from Pairs-N-Squares (Liverpool) and Shirts-N- Skirts (Fulton) for talking with us about the world of Square Dance. They told us that a typical dance lasts about 3 hours and is the equivalent of walking 5 miles.
Shirts-n-skirts celebrates 60 years in 2014.
Get Acquainted and Work Out
NYS Fair (Day 12): Puttin’ in work
September 1st, 2014
Swoop: Ball Tricks
James Brown had nothing on Dwayne Swoop Simpson. The triple-zero uniform-wearing entertainer for the Harlem Wizards is officially the “hardest working man in show business (at the Fair).”
For the past week, we saw Simpson do tricks, teach salsa lessons, play some great classic soul and rock music as a DJ, drum up business for local vendors, take photographs with fans, nearly get a double-double in wheelchair basketball, and just plain make a vocation look like fun outside the Sports Activity Center.
On this Labor Day, we salute his work ethic.
Swoop in Selfies
Swoop: Like Magic from the wheelchair
Labor Day
September 1st, 2014
Labor Day Parade
Labor Day Parade
One Last Chance to Wear White
September 1st, 2014
Open Competition, Dairy Building (NYS Fair)