NEW YORK CITY SNAPSHOTS In Plain View

NEW YORK CITY SNAPSHOTS 
In Plain View

By Anthony Buccino

Anthony Buccino’s third photography collection focuses on the 15 year period from about 1999 to 2014, and includes more than 150 color snapshots of the Big Apple.

"Snapshot photography, to me, is basically walking around with a camera and shooting whatever looks interesting. I like odd and cute things, but also the ordinary. For the most part the photos are happenstance.

"When I worked for a newspaper in 1990, I was reporter and cameraman. That's when I got used to having a camera with me all the time. Now, I hardly leave the house without one of my Canon cameras.

"The photos in this collection were shot with various cameras including my Olympus OM-1 film camera, two Fujifilm cameras - consecutively, my later Canon digital, and possibly a smart-phone along the way."

Here’s to the nonstop energy generated by this big old city and the people who buzz busily on its wild and crazy streets day and night.

Here’s to the bright lights and the pot holes.

Here’s to the hapless commuters and the more hapless residents who manage to thrive in this city’s intensity.

Here’s to you who stood in plain view making these snapshots memorable.

Here’s to you for taking the time to make your own stories to go along with these snapshots of an open city with hidden views in plain sight.

Here’s to less-than-perfect photos that tell a story.

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This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter
By Anthony Buccino

If you ever commuted to work, you'll enjoy your ride reading Anthony Buccino's latest collection "This Seat Taken? Notes of a HaplessCommuter" about the joys and follies of getting to and from work in the city using public transit.

Buccino's bus and rail commuting tales and observations are collected in this new 224-page book which is available in print, on Amazon and Nook.

Buccino spent 12 years editing business news copy at Dow Jones & Co. for the Ticker, NewsPlus and The Wall Street Journal professional web pages in Jersey City and later at the NewsCorp building in the Times Square district of mid-town Manhattan.

For his first year working in Jersey City, Buccino actually drove the 12 miles each way to work and home. An average commute would take 20 minutes to reach the city and at least another 20 minutes to cross the city to his parking lot near the Hudson River. It wasn't long before the crosstown traffic and the monthly parking fee, nearly enough for a car payment, persuaded the author to use mass transportation to get to work for the first time ever.

For 11 of those dozen years, he rode public transportation including NJ Transit buses, Newark City Subway, Port Authority Trans Hudson's PATH trains, the occasional NYC subway and DeCamp buses.

For five years, Buccino wrote about commuting and transit in metro New York-New Jersey for NJ.com. His transit blog on NJ.com earned the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award. Many of those blurbs are gathered in this collection.

Pop Tarts World in Times Square, N.Y.

When the new Pop Tarts Store opened in New York City last week, it was a bit too crowded to get in during my morning commute.

On opening day, TV news crews parked their vans in the street and hungry Pop Tarts lovers lined up behind barricades.


Today, I happened to be early and set my goal for the store on W 42nd Street near Bryant Park.

The store opens at 8:30 and it was barely 9, so that would give me plenty of time to browse the T-shirts, mugs and other knick-knacks that you probably can't buy anywhere else in the world!

Visions of privately concocted Pop Tarts danced in my head. Perhaps peanut butter and blueberry, with sparkles embedded in the frosting. I could almost taste the pastries as I commuted with the rest of the morning crowd as they headed to work.

I grew suspicious when I approached the store and there was no line outside. Perhaps the hoopla died and I'd be able to walk in and have the place to myself. I was getting a sugar high just thinking all those Pop Tarts waiting for me.

But, alas, a hand-written sign inside the store read Open at 11 a.m. today only.

I looked in the window and the place was blank. There were the biggest Pop Tarts boxes I ever saw. And T-shirts so close I could almost reach them. But all for naught on the other side of the locked door.

Another day, another morning, I shall visit this store before it closes.

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Some People Act Like They've Never Seen A Naked Cowboy

The Naked Cowboy in Times Square, New York, NY 

... and one wannabe cowboy.

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