steveb’s leatherworks: daily blather

Went to this NYC landmark greenery spot with the Boss one day. One of the iconic landmarks you go as a kid on a class trip,  honestly I’d not been back since - and i have to say - it rocked - what a great place to spend the day. Exotic plant fare, fantastically manicured [...]

faces tell alot about the world a person lives in..some faces are 10 miles of hard road and others are babes like, full of innocence and wonder.
In the workaday world in NYC, often the only break you get from your routine is if you “run down” for a smoke. I know that I looked forward to [...]

Pupkin & I hit the BIBS today…. love that, Bibs, anyway…..
We rode down from the great wild north for a dose of some severely urban scenery and probably pissed off like a half million people stuck in multi ton cages due to our lane splitting antics  through some pretty good traffic on the blight ways and [...]

NYC never sleeps, it rests when it has to, but it really doesnt get true shuteye.

This gent was showing consummate class slicing and dicing his way through NYC mid day blech. Watching him cut through the clutter was  a bit unnerving - it was obvious no one around him saw him coming…I dont know, it always seemed so dangerous to me, being on a quiet, stealthy bike in a traffic [...]

so, I head into NYC on a pretty regular basis to get my dose of whatever it is that NYC provides. part of this adventure is waiting for the train..because driving just plain sucks 

More random images from my rambles through Manhattan. Grand entrances, mysterious/odd store fronts and the absolutely normal, as ingested every day seen through my lens. Hope you enjoy these utterly common and mundane images as much as I do….a celebration of our ecosystem.

I don’t even know where to start with Marios.. other than relaying that it is the iconic Italian Food Joint in the most iconic Italian neighborhhod in NYC, namely, Arthur Avenue, located in the borough of the Bronx.
The food is amazing, the ambiance, Mobster Guinea, the prices..a little silly. The best time to go is [...]

While NYC has done its best to sweep homelessness out of the publics eye and the media has chosen not to focus any attention on it - it still sadly exists… Personally having been close to the edge at one time or another when i was younger - seeing this in the worlds greatest city [...]

9.11 has left some pretty deep wounds on my city, besides the obvious scars on the ground and the memorials. Everyone I know who was in town that day has a story, myself included

Two wheels in NYC take some work, some dedication and grit - be your conveyance a bicycle or motorcycle.

NYC folks love Tasti D, we love our art and we sure love our free papers…

Eyes wide open walking around the city you see some sweet street meat and then ya see specimen’s of hardship, gestated in the NYC petri dish.
Do you think this bike has seen love? coddling, a waxing and detailing or two, do you think it is a poodler?
I think this machine tells a story of hardship, [...]

if you have your eyes open, you will see some interesting things.

Mister Squirrel is the toughest and wiliest of all animals in Manhattan. This fine specimen was giving me the hairy eyeball when i stopped to notice him. I mean, this squirrel had an attitude!