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Garden District Book Shop

by Sabrina Blog Photos

Garden District Book Shop New Orleans

Over winter break I went to New Orleans with my family for the first time. While leisurely strolling around the Garden District we stumbled upon the Garden District Book Shop, a small but beautiful indie bookstore with loads of signed books. Browsing bookstores always reminds me why I wanted to go into the publishing business. [...]

Love and Care Pop-up Bookstore

by Sabrina Photography

Pop-up Bookstore

Gotta love the holiday season. New Zealand publisher PQ Blackwell opened two LOVE AND CARE pop-up bookstores in Manhattan. Today, a friend and I explored the one in the Meatpacking District, on 344 W 14th Street. The store is open seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., until the end of December (or possibly [...]

Chess Board

by Sabrina Photography

853 Books

by Sabrina Blog Photos

Take a good look. This is what 853 books looks like. My own personal library, full of YA and picture books, with a few adult books as well. Ah, the benefits of interning at Random House. Actually, I was just working in the right place at the right time. Random House was in the process [...]

New York City Spottings

by Sabrina Blog Photos

Nitrogen tanks on the side of the street in the Flatiron district. What? I’m pretty sure someone was filming a movie at the library in Midtown at night. Why else would it be so lit up at 9 p.m.?

Make New Friends, But Keep the Old

by Sabrina Musings

Photo by Sabrina, Santa Barbara, CA. One of the nicest things about extended visits to California is that it gives me time to see some of my old friends. These past two days have been wonderful, since I got to see my two best friends from UC Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is still my paradise, [...]

WIRED pop-up store: a slideshow

by Sabrina Blog Photos

WIRED Magazine has a holiday pop-up store. Located on 692 Broadway, New York, NY, the store will be open Wednesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., from November 19 through December 26 only. If you get a chance, you should check it out. It’s pretty cool! Click on the actual slideshow to see full-sized [...]

Michael Jackson Art

by Sabrina Photography

Michael Jackson art

Corner of 3rd Street and 6th Avenue

Barnes & Noble

by Sabrina Blog Photos

Barnes & Noble Nook

Rumor has it that Barnes & Noble may no longer exist one year from now. In the meantime, I can enjoy their stores and Christmas decorations. And I can also play around with their Nook. The new color Nook was recently released. It uses LED like Apple’s iPad, but it’s formatted similarly to Amazon’s Kindle–with [...]

My Favorite Manhattan Christmas Window Displays

by Sabrina Photography

Manhattan Christmas Window Displays

Yesterday was the first day I was out in the snow. It was light and pretty, and by the time I got home, I couldn’t feel my hands, because I got very camera happy and couldn’t stop taking pictures of all the beautiful and elaborate window displays in Manhattan. Below are some of the best [...]

Airport Security and Coming Home, to NJ

by Sabrina Blog Photos

airport security

UPDATE: India protests Meera Shankar’s ‘pat down’, US says diplomats not exempt Woman strips to bra, panties for airport security; Colo. lawyer sues over TSA airport screening Spy vs. spy: Travelers join surveillance fray There’s only one flight per day from LAX to EWR–and it leaves at 8:15 in the morning. But traffic never stops on [...]

Spirituality for Sale

by Sabrina Musings

Symposia, Hoboken

Saw this sign at Symposia, the independent bookstore in Hoboken, NJ.

Stand By Me

by Sabrina Blog Photos

New York subway

This wonderful quartet serenaded my subway car on my way to work with the song, “Stand By Me.” They were so good, I gave them my last dollar.

Shoe Cars

by Sabrina Blog Photos

Saw this the other day in Soho. They are shoe-shaped cars, and they had a Macy’s logo. Advertising turned fun?

Around New York

by Sabrina Photography

Some sites I’ve seen around the city… The one above is one of two sculptures by Yoshitomo Nara. They are meant to be standing guard of the Upper East Side, the same way lion statues posted in front of Japanese shrines stand guard and protect against evil spirits, according to the New York Times. Nara’s [...]

B & H

by Sabrina Blog Photos

B&H, photography

B&H is a mecca for all aspiring and professional photographers. Located at 420 9th Ave., B&H covers two entire floors and sells everything a photographer would ever want or need or even think of using. They even have keyboards, telescopes, and the latest mp3 players. And they have the largest variety of mouses I [...]

Pigeon Post

by Sabrina Blog Photos

Not the best photo, but it almost seemed as if the pigeon was posing for me, so I couldn’t resist.

Irish Hunger Memorial

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Irish Hunger Memorial

A monument to those who perished during The Great Famine (An Gorta Mór) in Ireland between 1846 and 1850, during which 1.5 million people died, the Irish Hunger Memorial is on a half-acre of land. This symbolizes the law during the famine that anyone who owned more than a half-acre of land was not eligible [...]