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Photographs: England, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Borough Market

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Borough Market
“Borough Market” — Shoppers at London’s Borough Market.

Borough Market is located near the south end of London Bridge, which was not far from where we stayed in June this year. (We were near Blackfriars Bridge.) I recall the first time we visited the market on a previous visit, and I loved the bustling place, especially the old steel and glass roof above parts of it. My only regret is that there’s little reason for me to actually shop for many of the products there… when we don’t have access to a kitchen!

This time we walked there from our home base one morning, the plan being partly to get coffee and partly to just visit the market again. As we walked around I was reminded that two main subjects here are the structure sure itself and the crowds of people passing by. This photograph looks past a section of the market devoted to cheese vendors and toward a more brightly lit area open to the sky.

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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Night, Photographs: People, Photographs: Urban/Street

Ice Cream Man in His Truck, New York City

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Ice Cream Man in His Truck, New York City
Ice Cream Man in His Truck, New York City

Ice Cream Man in His Truck, New York City. New York, New York. August 19, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A mobile ice-cream vendor parked in his truck at night near Madison Square Garden on 7th Avenue in New York City.

The street vendors are certainly a part of the glorious sensory assault that is Manhattan, at least for this California visitor. They are everywhere, and they range from the generic hotdog/pretzel vendors, through folks who look like they bought a few cases of water and decided to sell them, to some that seem almost gourmet. Two small stories… I didn’t make a photograph, but when we were in lower Manhattan in the financial district we saw a line-up of perhaps a dozen mobile food carts around one small square selling a wide range of foods. While the lines at most of them included a person or two… one stand had a line stretching all the way across the square. Second story – which I’ll tell on myself: One morning we wanted to grab a pretzel. In the process I quickly forgot one of the first rules of buying from these guys, namely settle the price before getting the food. A NYC pretzel ought to cost perhaps a couple bucks, but I managed to double the price by asking for the “goods” first, taking them from the vendor, and only then asking for the price. Let’s just say he gave me the “tourist special price,” and I didn’t feel like enough of a jerk to hand them back to him over the price. :-)

This truck was parked at a corner on 7th Avenue almost across the street from Madison Square Garden, and seemed to be doing a good business during the twilight hour on this evening.

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