Photo of the Week: West Side Cowboy Twofer

[Cowboy on 10th Avenue and 17th Street. Click to enlarge.]
This is one of our favorite historical images. The West Side Cowboys were employed by the City to ride in front of street-level freight trainsĀ and wave pedestrians out of the way. This was the City’s stopgap measure to stop the carnage on what was known as [...]

Space Invader invades the High Line!

This friendly space invader has already found a home on the High Line at the Northeast corner of 15th Street. He(?) has several relatives in West Chelsea and around town. There was a good Times article from this weekend on street art around the High Line and elsewhere in the city. Also check out the [...]