On Smith Street.

Taken on St Johns Place on the way to the office this morning.

A deeply moving video of a ride to Red Hook, in which Izzy the dog sits up front.

New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff writes today about Buffalo, "home to some of the greatest American architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with major architects like Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright building marvels here." Visiting the Lady BIB's native city in 2006, I took some photos of Richardson's 1870 Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane.

The Centre for an Urban Future has just published Coney Island Visions. The report presents ideas for a vision of Coney from a diverse and meaningful range of contributors, including Jonathan Lethem and Eric Zimmerman. Norman Oder over on Atlantic Yards Report offers a couple of his own suggestions.

On Sunday we had the pleasure of mooching around the BETA Spaces artshows and open studios.

Forest City Ratner has completed the demolition of the Ward Bakery, so through the gap on Dean Street there is now a clear view to Atlantic Avenue and beyond.