Atlantic

The Atlantic Avenue exit, a favorite.

Wedding Photo

Cleaning out the BTB photo archives, I came across this shot from exactly a year ago. A far cry from this year's crisp November.

Mazel tov!

Wheel Wash

Weirdly warm November day on 35th St. outside the CUNY Graduate Center (formerly B. Altman's). Not sure it justifies opening a hydrant. But it does provide a free wheel wash.

I'm not 100% but I think the dog vendor may have set up there to pick up the Twitter traffic. Or maybe there were too many carts already around Rockefeller Center for the installing of the Christmas tree. No joke.

Lyft Line

"The most affordable ride in town"? The MTA gives a boost to Lyft.

And I thought $6.50 was pretty good for a ride on the X1 from Central Park South to Eltingville (South Shore, Staten Island).

Lemon Lite

Damn, but it's been a long time since Joe Ely appeared on the blog--and a lot lot longer since I saw him at the Bottom Line with a very young K.D. Laing opening. Couldn't help but think of him when I saw this scene unfolding on Forest Avenue on Staten Island. It's not exactly a "cherry on top" anymore but, then again, the Bud in the truck isn't really Bud anymore.

The call me the Crazy Lemon.
I'm crazy, wild, free for a while.
I can't help what they think, I was born that way.
I'll be a little crazy till my dyin' day.
Just a man on the run, they call the Crazy Lemon.

It's true that I stole the Budweiser truck.
I changed my mind but the truck got stuck
In a muddy ditch, so I hitched it back again.
The second car that passed had a cherry on top
But just my luck it was the first to stop.
They said with a grin, "Looky here, it's the Crazy Lemon."

From the great Down on the Drag LP (1979), though I heard it first on the equally great bonus EP that came with Live Shots (1980).

Keep on runnin', you Crazy Lemon...

Sticker Shock

The iconography of the shield? BQE Road Warrior. Or Knight Errant.

I don't where he got it, but I want one.

Linc-C Out

In a surprise to almost no one, Lincoln Chafee has decided to quit the race for the Democratic nomination for president. The Daily News headline sums it up pretty well.

If he's looking for a silver lining, Linc can take some comfort that he gets to share the page with Beyoncé and Jay Z.

Read the online News story here. Without the wonderful, woeful headline in the print edition.