nyc | empire

Atop the Empire Hotel in New York City last night.
photo by eugene hernandez

eug posted to nyc on September 10, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

summerstage, strings

This is why you live in NYC. So that you can head up to Central Park on a Monday night to listen to an American dude play a banjo alongside an African guy playing a Kora (a West African harp) and then you can watch a movie about it. For free.

Bela Fleck and Toumani Diabate performed as the sun went down, capping their set with a stirring rendition of “Dueling Banjos.” It was striking because good friend Sascha Paladino’s doc, “Throw Down Your Heart,” is about his brother Bela’s trip to take the banjo back to it’s roots in Africa. Bela and Toumani played music from the movie and then the doc was screened in its entirety, the packed crowd clapping after each song. Terrific NYC night.

eug posted to nyc on August 4, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

in nyc | mj subway

On the 6 line, headed downown this afternoon, a mother and son read an article about Michael Jackson in today’s New York Times.
[iphone photo by eugene hernandez]

eug posted to nyc on June 26, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

in nyc | bk saturday

Spring in Brooklyn yesterday. A friend’s apartment building in Ft. Greene is a former dormitory, through a garden in the back you can access the old headmaster’s quarters.
[photo by eugene hernandez]

eug posted to nyc on April 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

in nyc | spring comes to hell’s kitchen

The temperatures were not quite there yet on Monday morning in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, but the trees at 10th Ave. and 48th St. were all ready for spring.
[iphone photo by eugene hernandez]

eug posted to nyc on April 13, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)