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InvitationPhoto: March 29th, 2020 Sixth Avenue
Date: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 at 4:00 a.m.
Subject: Boorstein has a blog??!!
Sent 4/1/20
First Entry | deaths with no funerals
the city is quiet, worse than 9/11
Photo: March 6th, 2020
Sixth Avenue Staples
Sent 4/4/20
Second Entry | a true crisis
Third Entry | trash in empty streets
Fourth Entry | fire drill for the apocalypse
wise friend, headed for the hills
Photo: March 19th, 2020
100 Sullivan Street
Sent 4/11/20
Fifth Entry 🔊 | new territory
foghorns, freshly cut plum branches, Central Park
3/21 Audio Grocery lines, spring blossoms, and barbershops. 5 min.
Photo: March 21st, 2020
Sixth Avenue
Sent 4/12/20
SPECIAL Entry - Easter | boarding up essential work
global news, virus is spreading
Photo: April 12th, 2020
Prince Street
Sent 4/14/20
Sixth Entry | calls from around the country
Seventh Entry | communicated with a glance
Eighth Entry | stock market up two thousand points
Ninth Entry | a biker's paradise
Tenth Entry 🔊 | uniquely ill-equipped
3/27 Audio Spring Street, Oculus, Hurricane Sandy. 6 min.
Photo: March 27th, 2020
Prince Street
Originally sent 4/24/20
Eleventh Entry | flimflamery
Twelfth Entry | a level of unknown
World Trade Center Transportation Hub, first world horrific
Photo: March 29th, 2020
Oculus
Sent 4/28/20
Thirteenth Entry 🔊 | the audible spectrum
defective masks, things have changed “utterly”, United Nations
3/30 Audio The haves and the have nots. 5 min.
Photo: March 30th, 2020
Sullivan Street
Sent 4/30/20
Fourteenth Entry 🔊 | gatherings are evaporating
begging for health care workers, projected deaths
3/31 Audio Springtime, flowering trees, six feet apart. 3 min.
Photo: March 31st, 2020
Sixth Avenue
Sent 5/2/20
Fifteenth Entry | what does it take to change a place?
toilet paper demand, “informed projections”
Photo: April 1st, 2020
Prince Street
Sent 5/4/20
Sixteenth Entry | one cannot live forever
ethical guidelines, canned goods, throwing stuff away
Photo: April 2nd, 2020
Thompson Street
Sent 5/6/20
Seventeenth Entry 🔊 | some things change more quickly
masks, confirmed cases
4/3 Audio 1
Eye contact, clang – clunk, a train car to yourself. 6 min.
4/3 Audio 2
Tulips, kindly garbage trucks, mood shift. 2 min.
Photo: April 3rd, 2020
West 21st Street
Sent 5/8/20
Eighteenth Entry | plans and endings
quiet spring, Empire State Building
Photo: April 4th, 2020
Sixth Avenue
Sent 5/10/20
Nineteenth Entry | singular sound
some absences more notable than others, eye contact
Photo: April 5th, 2020
Sixth Avenue
Sent 5/12/20
Twentieth Entry | the same place and a different place
a different life, lack of planning, SoHo
Photo: April 6th, 2020
Greene Street
Sent 5/14/20
Twenty-first Entry | "chance operation"
Trader Joe’s line, temporary morgues
Photo: April 7th, 2020
Prince Street
Sent 5/16/20
Twenty-second Entry | normal now needs to be defined
Twenty-third Entry 🔊 | new term - "social distancing"
government relief, New York and Venice, prisons
4/9 Audio April showers, seeing the wind, horn honk. 2 min.
Photo: April 9th, 2020
MacDougal Street
Sent 5/20/20
Twenty-fourth Entry 🔊 | urban isolation chamber
feeling lost, Yemen and aide programs, Notre Dame
4/10 Audio Goldberg variations, prelude 1, interlude in a quiet city. 3 min.
Photo: April 10th, 2020
Rent Bill
Sent 5/22/20
Twenty-fifth Entry | cigarette butts
SPECIAL Entry - Mid
Twenty-sixth Entry | a darkly cloaked gift
an opportunity, a disruption, what makes each of us tick
Photo: April 12th, 2020
Mercer Street
Sent 5/31/20
SPECIAL Entry - Post-Break
Twenty-seventh Entry | covid dreams
lugging stolen toilet paper in a bed sheet, analogies to war
Photo: April 13th, 2020
Madison Street
Sent 6/19/20
Twenty-eighth Entry 🔊 | gasoline under $2.00 per gallon
eye contact, false negative tests, prisoners
4/14 Audio Tax day, Jefferson Market Library, six bells. 1 min.
Photo: April 14th, 2020
Broome Street
Sent 6/23/20
Twenty-ninth Entry | eating a bush
haircuts, subway ridership, take-out
Photo: April 15th, 2020
Worth Street
Sent 6/27/20
Thirtieth Entry | losing a simple human gesture
the quiet of the morning remains delicious, job loss, masks
Photo: April 16th, 2020
Grand Street
Sent 7/1/20
Thirty-first Entry | a familiar strangeness
stillness, refridgerated trailers, riding the wrong way
Photo: April 17th, 2020
Bleecker Street
Sent 7/5/20
Thirty-second Entry | illegal jogging
testing, vaccines for common diseases
Photo: April 18th, 2020
Spring Street
Sent 7/9/20
Thirty-third Entry | one's heartbreak is another's delight
high temperatures, paycheck protection program
Photo: April 19th, 2020 Greene Street
Sent 7/13/20
Thirty-fourth Entry | you cannot make this stuff up
Thirty-fifth Entry | savoring an absence
boarded up clothing stores, eye contact, 9-11 memorial
Photo: April 21st, 2020
West Street
Sent 7/21/20
Thirty-sixth Entry | morgue trucks keep humming
restaurants, airlines, military readiness
Photo: April 22nd, 2020
Sixth Avenue
Sent on 7/25/20
Thirty-seventh Entry | throwing things away
the media, student-teacher relations
Photo: April 23rd, 2020
Canal Street
Sent on 7/29/20
Thirty-eighth Entry | the non-reversing mirror
haircutting, re-opening, lysol cocktail
Photo: April 24th, 2020
West 21st Street
Sent on 8/2/20
Thirty-ninth Entry | freedom over saftey
alone, restaurants, reinfections
Photo: April 25th, 2020
Sullivan Street
Sent 8/6/20
Fortieth Entry | injecting disinfectants
Hubble space telescope, gas prices, covid testing
Photo: April 26th, 2020
Broadway
Sent 8/10/20
Forty-first Entry | food insecure
May chill, unemployment, all we need is lip service
Photo: April 27th, 2020
Seventh Avenue
Sent 8/14/20
Forty-second Entry 🔊 | defense production and pork
normal in fall 2021, testing, the working class
4/28 Audio Flowering trees, NYC as a village, Soho’s next chapter. 3 min.
Photo: April 28th, 2020
Prince Street
Sent 9/20/20
Forty-third Entry 🔊 | the crystal ball is cloudy
sidewalks, Boeing, partisan news
4/29 Audio Late night, out of balance, Mister Mister can I have a dollar. 2 min.
Photo: April 29th, 2020
Avenue C
Sent 9/24/20
Forty-fourth Entry | cloud of safety, blanket of fear
tractor-trailer morgues, subway
Photo: April 30th, 2020
Elizabeth Street
Sent 9/28/20
Forty-fifth Entry 🔊 | some things do not change
the phone, ICU, Indian Point Nuclear Reactor
5/1 Audio Popular restaurants, Washington Sq Park skating sink, flags at half mast. 2 min.
Photo: May 1st, 2020
Mott Street
Sent 10/2/20
Forty-sixth Entry | this place may need noise
riot of color, a gift
Joker
4/1 Audio Popular restaurants, Washington Sq Park skating sink, Flags at half mast. 2 min.
Photo: May 1st, 2020
Spring Street
Sent 10/6/20
Forty-seventh Entry | a delightful unnecessary transaction
Kentucky Derby, Spring Street, hand written Covid signs
Photo: May 2nd, 2020
Prince Street
Sent 10/10/20
Forty-eighth Entry | the lower east river
homeless encampment and art gallery, perimeter of Manhattan island
Photo: May 3rd, 2020
West 21st Street
Sent 10/14/20
Forty-ninth Entry | another lesson of what is essential
rats, the Supreme Court, experts
Photo: May 4th, 2020
West 23rd Street
Sent 10/18/20
Fiftieth Entry | information is a kind of noise
George Floyd, Vietnam War, May 4th Massacre
Photo: May 5th, 2020
3rd Avenue
Sent 10/22/20
Fifty-first Entry | the soundscape continues to expand
varied standards, primary election, 24 hour service
Photo: May 6th, 2020
Sixth Avenue
Sent 10/26/20
Fifty-second Entry 🔊 | how we adapt reveals who we are
green shades, noise has returned
4/1 Audio Popular restaurants, Washington Sq Park skating sink, Flags at half mast. 2 min.
Photo: May 7th, 2020
Eighth Avenue
Sent 10/30/20
