New York City – Larry Livermore

Cars, Bikes, and People

June 11, 2013June 12, 2018 Larry Livermore 4 Comments Astoria, Bicycles, Bushwick, Cars, Citi Bike, Greenpoint, Greenwich Village, London, Mike's Bikes, New York City, Pedestrians, Safety, Traffic, Transportation, Williamsburg

I’m waiting, with a dozen other people, to cross Metropolitan Avenue. Mothers escorting kids home from school, hipsters languidly examining

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Drugs And Money

January 17, 2011 Larry Livermore 5 Comments 1967, Death, Drugs, Emerald Triangle, Heroin, Legalization, Marijuana, New York City, Overdose, Prohibition, Velvet Underground

December 1967, with the bleak gray harshness of a Michigan winter just beginning to bite. I was hanging out at

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Snow Days

December 29, 2010 Larry Livermore 0 Comments Blizzard, Brooklyn, Gabrielle Bell, New York City, Snowpocalypse, Williamsburg

It started innocently enough: the storm begins on Sunday morning. Schadenfreudists – and I know there are many of you

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Losing The Plot

August 8, 2010 Larry Livermore 1 Comment Bloomberg, Budget Cuts, Central Park, Crime, Giuliani, New York City, Public Transportation, Subways, The Bronx

It’s impossible not to see – and to marvel at – the near-miraculous transformation has come about in New York

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These People Seem Rather Cross About Something

April 28, 2010 Larry Livermore 27 Comments Bicycles, Brooklyn, Condos, Hipsters, New York City, Williamsburg

I can’t help thinking I’m falling for some meta-textual “I know you think you know what I think you know

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