I know Fall isn’t even close to over–especially having spent the weekend in Miami, where it was still 80 degrees–but I’m getting scared for Winter and figured I should post these October pictures before corn and zombies are nonsensical.
I’d like to say that NYC looks this dirty all of the time, but really, Kamran and I were in Union Square after a street fair had just ended. Street fairs here are mostly awful–picture blocks and blocks of stands, only they’re the same smoothie, sunglasses, and bedsheets vendors alternating over and over–but no New Yorker can resist the opportunity to walk down the center of a usually-crowded street.
I love how gothic this building looks against the overcast sky:
The famous magic wand in Union Square is known to stream steam at intervals, but I had never noticed the hand reaching out from above it. Halloween prank or totally-normal-thing-I’d-just-never-noticed?
Lovely corn in the Union Square Greenmarket:
This zombie locked eyes on us from across the park, and we both tried to ignore it until it was clear that he was ambling right for us on his stiff zombie legs. We accepted the haunted house flier he was handing out and admired his costume as he stopped to let me take his picture, but after he started hunting another couple, we realized that we figured him for a Halloween stunt all along and never once considered that he could be an actual lunatic. We’re clearly unprepared for a zombie uprising.
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If the zombie apocalypse happens around Halloween we’re all doomed. That said his make-up is pretty awesome.
Your photos are lovely, although it only proves to me that all New Yorkers only wear black.
I appreciate the guy with the recycle shirt on in the background with all the garbage. Fantastic.
I would feel very uncomfortable if such a realistic-looking zombie ambled up to me, in any context, at any time of the year.
Amazing photos!! I busted out laughing with the unpreparedness of a zombie uprising!
Good thing he wasn’t a REAL zombie, or he would have eaten your brains because you didn’t run!
I’m loving your photos here lately. Beautiful lighting and depth of field.
I love that photo of the building. And zombie guy totally freaks me out.
Yeah, every time I walk through a street fair I get this sort of “Groundhog Day” feeling that I’m just going down the same two streets over and over again. But I do love a good mozzarepa.
It’s so funny you say that, because I was specifically going to mention the arepas but then couldn’t decide if there’s ever really more than one of those booths at any street fair. And, you know, I only like to make points that support my opinion.
Love the photos – esp. the ones of you & Kam man on the post-fair filthified street. Lovely Katie, as usual!
PS: you new yorkers get everything. even zombies! (and i bet no one even batted an eye..)
Dishy is right… what does one have to DO in NYC, to get noticed?
Love your black dress! Where did you get it? And do you want to pick out my outfit for my best friend’s 30th birthday night out?
Thanks! It’s from Forever 21 and is therefore way too short. But I apparently really think I’m forever 21.
How crazy is this night out going to be? Because I would love to put you in this. But if it’s a little more casual, something like this?
It’s going to be at Big Bang in the Arena District. I’m determining what the birthday girl is wearing now, so that I can better shop. I love both the dresses you picked…and this one too: http://www.modcloth.com/shop/dresses/who-wants-to-be-a-frillionaire-dress-in-platinum
Oh, fun! So maybe not the sequined dress, although I still want you to wear that for something. The dress you linked is beeeeeeautiful, and if you don’t buy it, I’m going to. I love that it’s strapless AND strapful.
You guys are the dapperest. So dapper that I don’t even mind that this post wasn’t full of more Ohio fall photos like I assumed it would be, from the title.
It’s funny how I don’t think of NYC as having a fall, since the concrete to colorful leaves ratio is opposite to what it is here.
That settles it: My Zombie Apocalypse 101 class is now open for registration.
By the time I’m through with you, you’re going to be the valedictorian of the class.
Eh. Zombies. I’m more of the pretty-princess kind of Halloween gal….
But CORN! And FALL! Those… chy’a, I’m down with that.
Beautiful photos. :)
AND, yes, I wish we would’ve known each other through the torment that is dating a future attorney…. but hey, the journey continues over here, so looks like you came into my blogging life just in the nick of time. :D
It’s true…
you just don’t see many zombies out once the snow begins to fly. I guess they hibernate. Well, either that or they head south for the winter.
:)
HEY, COOL BLOOD!! I am also unprepared for a zombie uprising…
I am amazed at the amount of rubbish just laying around the street. You mean it’s just a bloke dressed up as a zombie. I thought he was just a victim of the morning rush hour on the subway