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Today was a beutiful day expecially for november, I took my bike down to the American Veterans Memorial Pier.  There I saw a large fish caught and pulled out the water, the local that I talked to said it was the largest fish he had ever seen caught there.

As the final Open House New York event I went to Tom Otterness’s studio in Carroll Gardens near the Gowanus Canal.  He gave a very nice presentation about his work.

On the way home from visiting places in Red Hook I noticed this building that struck me.  Strange to see a wood building with no ground floor windows and the second floor windows boarded up.

Another stop on my tour of Open House New York events I stopped by a recently renovated live work space.  This was the bed room in which I really liked the reuse of removed joists as shelving.

For the past 3 years of Open House New York I’ve wanted to go to one of the MTA substation tours but failed to be able to register in time. This year the tour was first come first served so after arriving 90 minutes early I was able to be one of the first people there and get a look inside at the old and new equipment that they run out of the 53rd st subway station.  This is a 1,500 kilowat Westinghouse Rotary Converter.

Over the weekend I went to BookCourt, I had meant to make it to an event there a week prior but my plan got side tracked by a night that ended with drinking a beer out of a paper bag as one of four fans at a amateur hockey game.  At the book store I made my regular rotation, check the New York section, look over the tables of books, not get sucked into the children’s area.  But I also thought I would pickup a copy of the book for which the event I missed was about, having only slightly remember the name of the author I approached the register and made an inquiry.  The lady behind the register physically taken aback at first I thought that she was overly appalled by my miss-pronunciation but I soon learned that I had in fact asked about her book: Fly-Over State.  This is the thank you letter that I received for purchasing the book.

Today I went on a street art bike ride lead by Jake Dobkin around Williamsburge and Bushwick.