Parting Shots

A few last thoughts and photos from Plot and Duck's trip to The Shmapple:

If Plotnik and Ducknik had bought these two buildings on Karen's street in 1925, they might have paid $5,000 each.

Here is the outside of the Essex Street Retail Market on the Lower East Side, where Emma the Incredible Edible Pickle Works lady, and Shmuel the Meat Man and three generations of vegetable and notions merchants used to set up their stands and pushcarts.

Today it's the Essex Street Bar. Here's what it looks like inside. Shmuel and Emma can come to Happy Hour.

Now, THIS is a tree. (It's the trunk of the great copper beech growing on the lawn in front of BZWZ's office.)

Trees grow in Manhattan too.

Traveling is all about the feet. You've got to figure out a way to air out the little puppies, or they'll make you miserable. The Great Plotnik figured it out, much to the dismay of the lady to his right, who pretended to keep reading.

What does this shot of BZ at Venice Beach have to do with NYC? Nothing.

Or this? Nothing either.