If there is any greater joy than spending a day at the beach wearing your best wig, I’d like to know what it is.

At 72nd Street and Central Park West, you enter Central Park in the shadow of the ill-famed Dakota. The two towers on the right are the San Remo, a co-op apartment building that famously denied an apartment to Madonna in 1985, during her stint as a Playboy/Penthouse pinup.

Nearly done with a grueling but fantastic 7 hour bike ride with the Farmboyz, we were halfway across the Gil Hodges Bridge, which connects the Rockaways in Queens to Marine Park in Brooklyn, when Farmboy C took this pic of me looking back towards Rockaway Beach, with Coney Island over my right shoulder. Living in the concrete canyons of Manhattan, …

As seen from the Queensboro Bridge, the section of the Upper East Side known as Bedpan Alley, about a dozen major hospital complexes clustered along several blocks of the East River. The highway runs right under many of the buildings.

Found in the window of a Brooklyn toy stoy. What is this guy? A wrestler? A slave? A top? All three? I might have bought it, but I didn’t want to have to drag anything around all day. His expression is …interesting. Caption, anyone?

On the anniversary of Katrina, hopeful New Orleans officials are watching this weekend’s Southern Decadence, the 35th annual gay street party that has drawn as many as 100,000 revelers, except for last year’s cancelled event. From what I’ve read, the weekend’s organizers are predicting huge crowds rivaling pre-Katrina years, but I’m hearing from friends that so far things are relatively …

Last month, NY Governor Pataki signed a bill expanding “orders of protection”, typically granted to abused spouses or lovers, to include pets, because according to the bill’s sponsor, “Abusing a loved one’s pet is a way of saying ‘You’re next.’ It’s a warning.” Yesterday that law was used for the first time, against a gay man in Queens who reportedly …

Don’t look for Eloise, she’s long been evicted, as the Plaza continues its multi-year retrofit towards “super-premium luxury residences”. In the foreground, horses working in the hansom cab industry, one of the few New York City traditions that I would be happy to see gone. It always depresses me to see those poor animals trodding head down through traffic and …