Just finished reading Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone.  This is a very entertaining book in which the fomer FBI agent described in detail how he spent 6 years undercover within the Bonanno crime family. 

Hong Kong

Recent Readings

 Just finished reading Sharon Kay Penman's Dragon's Lair, a book given to me by a friend.  It's a good, interesting fast read.

Now, I am re-reading parts of Matthew Cooper's The German Army 1933-1945 for the Nth time.

Assorted Pictures

Manhattan architecture: Former New York City Police Headquarters at 240 Center Street, New York, New York, from 1909 to 1973.  In 1988, it was converted to luxury condominiums known as Police Building Apartments and is now a designated New York City Landmark.  It used to hold and process New York's criminal suspects, now it houses New York's super-rich.

Chinatown celebrates the Nationalists' founding of the Republic of China based on the WuChang Uprising on October 10, 1911.

Hair salon in Chinatown: What it really means to say is "Messylook,"  which is the current style in fashion. The literal translation of the Chinese words is roughly, "cutting in a disorganized way."

Seagulls at a beach in South Jersey.

Buildings

WWI British Vickers machine gun team and Mark IV Female Tank

WWI British Mark IV Tank

Conte Collectible: Norman soldier with battle axe

Gaslight New York City

Church in Newark, NJ



Newark, NJ

Newark, NJ

City Hall of New York City

World Trade Center One Month Ago

The "W" of Woolworth

Brighton Beach last winter

Orchard Street tenanments

Sunset on Brighton Beach

Fashion that I don't understand

Freedom Tower/World Trade Center 1

54mm Conte Collectible Norman soldier throwing a stone over the battlement of a castle.

WWI British Infantry Machine Gun Crew

WWI British Infantry

Crusader sergeants

Norman knight

Turcopoles

Crusader Sergeant

French noble Guillaume de Martel, Sire de Bacqueveille, bearer of the Oriflamme standard.  Agincourt 1415. He was killed at Agincourt and the Oriflamme was lost.  See Matthew Bennett, Agincourt 1415: Triumph against the odds, Osprey Campaign Series, p. 58.

Tenanment buildings on historical Orchard Street on Lower East Side