So if you’ve never read Joe Flaherty’s Managing Mailer, well, it’s worth picking up.

It’s dark and wet in New York this morning. The Yankees’ season is over but we’ve still got the city. And we’ve got each other for good company. It’ll be a long winter but a good one.

[Photo Credit: Mr. Freakz via This Isn’t Happiness]

If they’d only get their shit together for a few minutes…RZA explains.

Here’s a Gothamist photo gallery of Grand Central Station way back when.

Seen, at the indoor market on Arthur Avenue this weekend.

Woman on the elevator at work this morning goes, “I was up late with those stupid Yankees.”

“So was I. They’re killin’ me.”

“I can’t wait for tonight.”

“You’re a glutton for punishment, too, huh?”

“Of course.” She smiled.

“Yeah, me too.”

Then I smiled.

“Winged Victory of Samothrace,” photo by Cate Copenhaver via Arpeggia.

A Life photo gallery worth looking at.

Check out…

these cool NYC shots by Steven Siegel.

Late last night The Wife says, “I should get the purple heart for dealing with your ass.”

I say, “You’d get a purple heart if you’d married a Mets fan.”

Touche, she says.

When the Yanks finally won it was after midnight. I was typing away on my computer as she talked to me. She laughed because I wasn’t listening. I heard her laughing but didn’t hear what she was saying because I wasn’t listening.

She announced she was going to bed.

“The wife is exhausted,’ she said. Then, to herself: “Purple heart. And if you don’t give it to me, I’ll give it to myself. I don’t need you to give it to me.  That shit is mine, man.”

Another one bites the dust. Had some good memories in that place.

It’s always fun when you see a dance crew on the train–so long as a flying foot doesn’t clip you by accident.

[Photo Credit: Humans of New York]

Handball is maybe the best city game of them all.

[Photo Via: Retro New York]

Go to Pinhole New York and check out Stefan Killan’s beautiful black-and-white photographs of our city.

Check out this gallery of NYC coffee shops over at Gothamist.

[Drawing by Kevin Burg]

On a rainy day like today, best move is to stick close to the buildings and stay away from the outer part of the sidewalk. You can find some shelter close to the building, although you have to be mindful of the water pouring off of the awnings. Also, the further away from the street, the safer you are from a car splashing you.

Especially when you don’t wear your galoshes, right?

[Photo Credit: Chrisozer via This Isn’t Happiness]

Not all of the old spots are gone on the Upper West Side yet. Yes, Brooks Brothers and Barneys have made the place hard to recognize from the one I knew as a kid. But Murray’s is still there.

Now, I never shopped at Murray’s–maybe I bought some dried apricots there once. Still, it’s reassuring to know it’s there. So long as it is I can picture my grandparents and my father. The past is alive.

Take a trip back in time over at Gothamist.

[Photo Credit: Retro New York]

Over at Retronaut, dig Eric Staller’s Light Paintings.

Check out Alan Wolfson’s incredible sculptures.

The classic.