Richard Serra in Greenpoint

I walked across the backside of Greenpoint to the subway this morning.  I look under a new roll-up door and guess what?

A Richard Serra slab of heavy metal is sitting there, with 5 workers taking a breather to the side.  I asked the foreman if it was OK to take a picture, and did.  He said the object was from Gagosian on 24th, and was unsold.  I offered to haul it away for free, but no luck.  I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that Greenpoint is back room to Chelsea's mega-spaces.

And if that wasn't exciting enough for a quiet morning, a little later, in front of my favorite water treatment plant, I witnessed a tanker truck collision from a block away (on the far side of the picture, close enough to see the gash in the tanker and the Flammable sign, so I gave it a good 100 seconds before passing by).  A car was wrecked, but the passengers climbed out, and did not jump in the first ambulance that showed up.  I could smell gas, but then it always smells like gas around there.

The business the truck slammed into?  A metal recycler, with huge piles of twisted scrap metal...