Get a grip

These horns offer a unique and funny alternative to your standard restaurant entrance.

Care to guess what type of food they serve?

Doorway to a doorway

This entrance to an apartment building on York Avenue is a lesson in symmetry complemented with a splash of blue from a cheap broom.

Building bridges to nowhere one promise at a time.

This morning Republican maverick-atrix Sarah Palin silenced indignant democrats by delivering her controversial and — until now — unseen “Bridge to Nowhere.” The consummate outdoors woman, Palin was seen piloting a tug boat, and shouting over a bullhorn, “Thanks big government! I have your fucking bridge! Now where do you want me to put it?”

After nearly six hours of intense concentration on a hot afternoon and fighting off impulses to blink, Lenin finally managed to focus his hatred for capitalism like a magnifying glass and set ablaze a neighboring building in the East Village.

Check in checking out NYC.

The Chelsea International Hostel — “Where there are no strangers, just friends you have not met yet” — earns a respectable 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Degrees above NYC's sidewalks.

Hunter College located on 68th Street. Gatherer University, unfortunately, was closed at the end of the iron age.

Yeah, that was pretty bad. I know.

6-pack abs! Call now!

This statue near The Met loves the warming weather.

Support your local artists.

The Joyce Modern Dance Theater on 8th Avenue and 19th Street.

Dive bars: home away from home.

Johnny’s Bar in the Willage.

Lights out New York City.