See The Light
July 24, 2010 by Bald Punk
Filed under Fiction, Secrets of NYC, Stories
(South Street – Photos by Joe) The five of us all gazed at a blue neon glow that was brightest by the Fish Market Restaurant on South Street. I shuffled my feet, blinked, squinted, and pretended to look real hard. Don’t know if the shuffling of the feet worked, but I did my best not to […]
Peking, Wavertree and Helen McAllister at Pier 17
(Photos by Joe) I wanted to get up some photos of these boats docked at Pier 17. If you’ve read some of my stories, you know I spend a lot time over there. Here are my STORIES and PHOTOS
Keeping Secrets
(South Street across from The Paris Cafe – Photos by Joe) “Where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.” Luke 12:34 – Believe me, I don’t give away all of NYC’s secrets. Especially those associated with that block of small brick buildings on South St. between Beekman St. and Peck Slip. At one end are vacant […]
A few photos from South Street Seaport
(Photos by Joe) I must have hundreds of photos from South Street Seaport. It’s easily one of my favorite places in NYC Here are my STORIES and PHOTOS
South St between Beekman St and Peck Slip
(Photos by Joe) I wanted to post some photos of this section of South Street, because it’s the focus of the next story in Episode 30. Here is the first story in that series: Milk Toast. Here are my STORIES and PHOTOS
River to River Festival
June 28, 2010 by Bald Punk
Filed under Everything Else
(Snapshot of www.RiverToRiverNYC.com/Events) If you’re looking for some good cheap fun in NYC, then you must visit RiverToRiverNYC.com/Events. They sponsor loads of free concerts mainly at South Street Seaport, and on their site also list many other great events happening in Lower Manhattan. Here are my STORIES and PHOTOS
Milk Toast
June 24, 2010 by Bald Punk
Filed under Fiction, Secrets of NYC, Staten Island, Stories
(Wavertree sailing ship/South Street Seaport, NYC – Photos by Joe) At South Street Seaport to meet my friends, I was aware a tall white guy had tailed me since I came out of the Fulton Street subway station that was a four block walk. Just to be certain, I moved away from the sparse, early evening crowd […]
In My Head
March 15, 2010 by Bald Punk
Filed under Ghosts, Secrets of NYC, Stories
(Bald Punk – Photo by T) On the way home from Jeremy’s Ale House I had an all-too-real daydream about turn-of-the-century Coney Island and a juxtaposed slave ship that was sailing into NY Harbor. The ghost of a slave named Hardy had literally reached out to me from the bowels of the ship. His hand blotted out the lights of Coney . . . Home from […]
White Fire
March 8, 2010 by Bald Punk
Filed under Ghosts, Secrets of NYC, Stories
(Front Street – Photo by Bald Punk) After a winter’s evening spent imbibing beer with the b’hoys, I had slipped out of Jeremy’s Ale House onto the cobbled Front Street with a kick in my step. Only now do I realize a spirit waited for me. Without body or visible shape, he followed me to the subway on Fulton and Broadway. At […]
The Strange Case of Ghostly People on South Street
December 4, 2009 by Bald Punk
Filed under Secrets of NYC, Stories
(Photos by Bald Punk – Peck Slip/South Street) My lady friend(LF) called the psychic Carrie Robbins, and I got on the phone and told her about the three ghosts that we saw in a bar down by South Street. Of the four of us, I saw them the clearest and could swear that their images clung […]