Desktop Day: Happy Hanukkah

Tuesday night saw the Hanukkah lighting ceremony at Grand Army Plaza. According to the Brooklyn Paper a competing ceremony was held at Borough Hall, WHERE THE MENORAH WAS ONE FOOT HIGHER (PWNED!). Click on the image to open the large version. The top picture is PC format and the bottom for the wider screen Mac.

J'Ouvert: Labor Day Early Edition

From around 4am this morning outside the Brooklyn Library, Carnival celebrants took party in J'Ouvert. From the WIADCA guide to Carnival: "J'Ouvert, or jour ouvert in French, meaning daybreak, began in Trinidad in 1937. Today J'Ouvert is also celebrated in New York as a predawn festival on Carnival day."

A Friendlier Grand Army Plaza

Streetsblog offers an update on efforts to "re-conceive New York City's biggest, most chaotic traffic rotary into one of the city's finest public spaces." The Comments section is still going strong...

Desktop Day Double: Ikea, Red Hook and Grand Army Plaza

The Ikea site in Red Hook , and an eagle in Grand Army Plaza are presented here this week, sized to fit your computer desktop. Instructions Left-click on the image first to open up the large version. Windows PC: Right-click on the large image and select 'set as desktop background'. You can also right-click and 'save as', then use your desktop properties settings to add the file you just saved and format it how you prefer. There's more info on customising your PC desktop here.

Mac: Macintosh instructions can be found here.