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I took a quick walk around the neighborhood this afternoon. I don't have a pair of boots. I lasted only 45 minutes before my feet went numb and I headed back indoors.

At this intersection you can see both the new blue-green LEDs illuminating Patchen Ave, the old amber-pink of the sulphur vapor bulbs on Quincy Ave.

At the corner of Havemeyer and South 4th St. in Williamsburg.

In the recent months, it wasn't evident anything significant happened on this corner. There are many corners in Bed-Stuy like this. Few get similar attention, if any. Most are unmarked.

It's easier to peer into a life being lived inside when the lights are on and drapes are drawn. With windows bare, you'd see straight through, likely to off-white walls the landlord probably wouldn't allow them to paint. It's by the backlit curtains that you see colors.

Newspaper readership is down.

I walked past just as the shopkeeper finished yanking the underwear off this mannequin. She then scurried towards the back of the store. The scene was quietly comical, strangely erotic, mildly unsettling. 

I think of the spacious suburbs and spawling parking lots when I think of malls. I am surprised that there's one in New York City. There's nothing spacious about NYC. But Queens has one, in Elmhurst.