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My name is Michael Krakovskiy, and this is my blog.

Here's what you might find interesting:
100 Views of the Empire State Building project: I try to take 100 interesting photos of Manhattan's (sadly) tallest building.

My Gastronomic Adventures: I eat weird food - from 13 year old New Coke to Durian and parasitic fungi.

My attempts to grow exotic plants: pineapples, coconuts, etc.

My photos, mostly of New York City.

My musings about architecture mostly illustrated with my own photos. Would you like to learn about a mental patient who died at 103 who served as a model for some very famous sculptures? How about Brooklyn's ugliest building? How about a wooden skyscraper?

I find myself frequently writing about logos. The most popular article I ever wrote is about the redesigns of the Starbucks logo.

I wrote a series of "Best Sci-Fi You Haven't Read" posts:

Psywarrior
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Call Time Police - We've Got a Time Traveler

Other topics that interest me include NYPD, New York City subway system, Japan, and things made out of titanium. On top of all of that, I seem to be interested in pigeions and Rupert Murdoch.

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What I have seen on a half hour lunch break in NYC

New York Yacht Club building at 37 West 44th Street. I've never seen it before. It has these really cool bay windows. Here is what it looks like outside and here it is inside.

It's located right next to the Harvard Club, where 's previous employer liked to give office parties before his company went bust.

Believe it or not, I can't find a good outside picture. For having such a cool clubhouse they have a pretty crappy website. I guess I'll have to take some pictures myself.

I don't have a yacht (I have to ask how much it cost, so according to J. P. Morgan, I can't afford it) and I have not gone to Harvard. And there is no Brooklyn College club. Or is there? I like the idea of a club. Clubs are cool. Be like a real gentelman. Have some steak. Read a book. Smoke a sigar. Have some scotch. Well, I do those things at home, but it must be much cooler in a club.

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In Times Square, inside MTV studios, some show was shot live. I could see the host and the audience through the window.

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Saw a middle aged cop with a citation bar for Medal For Valor. It's kind of like Purple Heart.

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Bought some lunch from and interesting street vendor, who apparently used to work as a chef in now closed Russian Tea Room. His name is M.D. Rahman. A few places wrote about him.

Well, the times are tough, but at least he is not Rahman, M.D.

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