I took this picture of a Brooklyn wall from the F Train. I spent about two months working in Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center. I had a beautiful office overlooking the entire island of Manhattan, flanked by Jersey, Brooklyn, and Queens. There were a lot of nice people who worked there and who got into work much earlier than I did. Watching the twin towers turn to dust was a huge influence on my moving back home to the West Coast a few years later.
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Plus a beautiful shawarma sandwich in Sherman Oaks and a weekend-long celebration of a Chicano brewery in La Puente.
L.A. will also have to reimburse the street vendors for their past fines relating to this controversial sign. However, this does not include any other fines related to equipment restrictions or lack of permits. This also means that while a vendor can’t be cited for vending in areas like the Hollywood Walk of Fame anymore, they can still get cited for other city regulations.
Where to find all the medicated Pop Rocks, coffee, ice cream cones, and St. Ides you desire.
One of the taqueros who organizes the weekly pop-ups used to be homeless himself and broke out of poverty by selling breakfast burritos in front of a courthouse in Van Nuys. Now, he is sober and pays it forward every week. The group uses TikTok to raise funds and donate up to 1,500 tacos and more a week.
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