NYC 1993: no Experimental Jet Set, lotsa trash and one bar

May 21 1993: LHR-JFK for the first time (not Concorde)

From younger braver me stopping strangers on the street in Chelsea

& asking for their photo AND their #lifestory

Snapping and feeling immersed

I'm actually here

I'm present

I am (was) braver

look close you'll see the reflection of what used to be, or is
And was

time passes at different rates for observers depending on their relative velocity or the strength of the gravitational field they are in.

And now I inhabit the workspace I looked down on from the roof of the South Tower

I sit in the sky in these shots

Literally in that empty space

It’s foggier much closer to the ground now

caused by that year after the Millenium and what came after

Duh.

I work each day in that empty Spot in the sky

And gazing up at the North Tower (the first to happen)

& now

can't get over the idea of all of those people sitting in the sky

The rest of NYC in 1993 was as you’d expect:

Friendly bro delivery drivers (brave me asked them to strike a pose)

UES Puppet-loving crackpots (UES eccentrics! Who knew that once upon a time!)

Garbage piled up before Broken Windows [allegedly] fixed it (btw not fixed in 2025)

Tribeca still loved Domestic-made limos

Chrome domes are gone, mullets are back

But, the Yaffe Café will be open all night (sic)

No hint of any big changes coming, not to me anyway

And what, you ask, was on my Aiwa Walkman?

Once there was this kid who got into an accident

You know I’m such a fool for you

Because the night belongs to lovers

If you believed they put a man on the moon

I wish I was special, you’re so fuckin’ special

All the she wants is another baby

I would like a place I call my own, have a conversation on the telephone