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D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Observations - September 2006

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 --

September 25, 7:40 A.M. on West 91st Street in Manhattan …

There are times when, for security reasons, sanitation trucks are brought in to block Big Apple thoroughfares. This was not such an occasion.


SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 --

No Longer the House that Ruth built …

Flag person waving in one of the 300 trucks a day hauling dirt out of the new Yankee Stadium construction site, September 25 …

… to the site of the new Yankee Stadium …

… while the old ballpark wonders what is to become of it.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 --

Looking Back …

This is how the site looked seven months ago. LPR plans to keep its clicksters photographically informed about progress on construction of The House That Ruth Did Not Build.

From the February 26 LPR: Site of the new Yankee Stadium.

From the February 26 LPR: A different view of the new Yankee Stadium site.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 --

HAPPY 5767 LPR CLICKSTERS …

This Hebrew calendar new year begins at sundown, September 22 and is observed by Jews through sundown September 24.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 --

Anne Richards …

Gov. Ann Richards, photographed February 8, 2005 working in Central Park on a team putting up "The
Gates." The former Texas governor --succeeded by W -- died in Austin last week, age 73.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 --

On Columbus Avenue …

Flowers behind bars.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 --

Scenic View …

Once again, people will be able to see the setting sun behind Yankee Stadium during post-season play

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 --

NASCAR …

Mark Martin (rt) speaking with Carl Edwards, in Rockefeller Center, last November after the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Chase.

Martin is one of the Talented Ten drivers competing in this year's Chase. Last year's champion Tony Stewart and also Carl Edwards, were among the drivers who failed to qualify to compete for the 2006 Nextel Cup.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 --

Tanglewood …

A few weeks ago, LPR identified a photo of people on the Great Lawn in Central Park for the Rigoletto
performance as "Not Tanglewood."
This is Tanglewood (in Lenox,MA --July 2002).

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 --

Directionally challenged?

Who said east is east and west is west? (Route 44, just... east... of Winsted, CT)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 --

Getting to be that season …

Autumn leaves in Torrington, CT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006 --

What a wondrous window …

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006 --

She Occurs …

While waiting for the arrival of Andrew Cuomo at 96th and Broadway, LPR noticed a number of buses heading downtown -- and each of the buses displayed a poster of
Katie Couric on the front. LPR later realized that Ms. Couric was destined by her last name to be a force for reckoning. Couric is, simply, an anagram for "I occur." And now she occurs evenings in the CBS News
anchor chair.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006 --

On the IT (invisible tormentors)
Front …

Last Friday, getting home close to 3 A.M. after photographing the Big Pleasure Point nighttime dismantling, the remote garage opener did not work. Shana and I spent the early morning hours in the LPRmobile.

Later that day, driving to Torrington, the
car radio started scanning on its own and, later, when the radio did stay with one station, volume crescendo'd to a blasting level and then, suddenly took a diminuendo -- to silence. This happened,
repeatedly, on the way back to the Bronx. When I got to the garage and tried the remote, the garage door opened -- and the car radio worked normally.

 

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006 --

The Bleachers Cafe?

These stacked chairs, on Columbus Avenue, opposite the American Museum of Natural History, suggest to LPR that there ought to be a sidewalk cafe with tiered-tables all facing the street -- if there isn't one already.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006 --

Broadway Reflecting Puddle …

Just a strained attempt by LPR to be artsy.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006 --

A Variation of the 1990 film "Awakenings"?

LPR previously reported how two of the LPRmobile's windows suddenly remained open last weekend, and then closed Monday morning (August 28). Four days later, after Shana's visit with Dr. Jenny Lukovsky at the Candlewood Animal Hospital, in New Milford, CT, the passenger front window, shut for several weeks, slowly and inexorably lowered -- all the way down. The next day, the window closed completely at the flick of the switch -- and has resumed being completely shut, perhaps in solidarity with the three other windows.


SEPTEMBER 5, 2006 --

Shana …

Shana flashing a smile for the LPR camera.

This photo shows Shana in her wagon at Oddo Print Shop in Torrington, Ct. At age 17 and one month (about 90 in people years)

Shana does not walk -- but with the wagon doesn't have to. Please look at Shana's face? Can such a sweet face send electrical impulses that, among other
things, close car windows and open car trunks?

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006 --

Alternatively, at Oddo …

… LPR heard of other cars with inoperative windows at this time. Do Iranian scientists have an ingenious machine that keeps our car windows open in bad weather so that we will get the flu? Could Iran possibly have developed a Weapon of Glass Disruption?