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One-Way Sign in Broadmoor

The weather is strangely cool in New Orleans today, which I like, and I enjoyed a non-task related ride around the Broadmoor neighborhood.  This neighborhood took on a lot of water when the levees broke after Katrina, and much of it remains in disarray.  Continue reading →

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St. Charles Mansion

As I was riding around today running various errands and smelling the hints of autumn on Ike’s final winds, I was thinking about how many recent representations of New Orleans have featured areas prone to flooding, neighborhoods still struggling to return after Katrina and from general poverty, and, of course, the French Quarter.  Continue reading →

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Termite Tenting on Prytania

I am back on the bike after a long trip to Texas and a visit from a bike-less sister. I can’t believe how much it affected me to be off the bike. I haven’t felt quite right, and my timing has been off; it is as if I have been in the twilight zone. Continue reading →

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The Van Benthuysen-Elms Mansion on St. Charles

After taking the day off from riding yesterday (I was sore from chasing the streetcar up St. Charles the previous evening), I was itching to get on the bike today.  Continue reading →

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Candy Land House in Uptown

I headed out for a ride through Audubon Park on my way to a coffee shop and then campus, computer in tow, and saw this house, as I often do.  Today, though, I swung back around to snap a picture.  Continue reading →

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Basement Bike Parking in Brooklyn

Tonight I took L.’s bike back to A.’s apartment building in upper Park Slope.  Why does her bike live somewhere else?  Continue reading →

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Future Trump Condos in the CBD

I was itching to ride my bike today in the lovely weather–overcast and a touch windy, humid and thick–and decided to head down to the CBD to run an errand or two.  Continue reading →

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Houses in Central City

I took a day off from riding my bike yesterday because my knees were begging me.  Fine, I told them.  Fine.  Continue reading →

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House Raising in Central City

I got a lot of riding done in 95 degree heat today. It felt so, so good. I was jetting through Central City on my way down to the Marigny when I saw this lot, vacant except for these stilts upon which a house will hopefully soon be perched. Continue reading →

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Abandoned couches in Central City

I rode through Central City on my way home from the gymnasium today, this time on Willow. Now, Willow is only a few blocks from St. Charles, but the difference in what these two streets look like couldn’t be more obscene. I rode by this house and its couch sitting on the curb and wondered where the couch came from. Is this a couch recently (or long ago but ignored) removed from a flooded home? Or is this just a couch on the street, as could be on any street in any city? Continue reading →