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Ruth Wilensky, Canadian Icon, died on Friday at the age of 98. Mrs. Wilensky ran Wilensky’s Light Lunch, which her late husband founded in 1932, in Montreal’s Mile End neighborhood for decades before she retired in 2012. The only thing you ever need to order at Wilensky’s is the Wilensky’s Special, a simple pressed salami sandwich with cheese (optional) and mustard (extremely mandatory). That, and a coffee, egg cream or hand-mixed soda to wash it down. I went to Montreal on spring break in 2012 and had lunch at Wilensky’s at least three times. I brought my friend Danny there one afternoon, and he attempted to break to mustard rule (the restaurant has a prominent “We Always Put Mustard On It/On Met Toujours De La Moutarde where most lunch counters would probably put a TV.) Mrs. Wilensky’s daughter, Sharon (who now runs the restaurant,) rebuffed him, but at least agreed to put less mustard on his sandwich. After we left, we doubled back because I really wanted to take Mrs. Wilensky’s photo. When I asked, she said to come back in a half hour when she was done with lunch. Thirty minutes later, she very politely indulged me, having surely dealt with the same request from decades-worth of idiot tourists before me. #Montreal #MTL #Wilensky #Wilenskys #WilenskysSpecial #WilenskysLightLunch #Quebec #Mustard #Moutarde #Sandwich #Deli #OnMetTourjoursDeLaMoutarde #SpringBreakWoo #MakePortraits

“Robert Moses had always displayed a genius for adorning his creations with little details that made them fit in with their setting, that made the people who used them feel at home in them. There was a little detail on the playhouse-comfort station in the Harlem section of Riverside Park that is found nowhere else in the park. The wrought-iron trellises of the park’s other playhouses and comfort stations are decorated with designs like curling waves. The wrought-iron trellises of the Harlem playhouse-comfort station are decorated with monkeys.” . -Robert Caro in “The Power Broker,” 1974. . When planning Riverside Park, Robert Moses essentially skipped the actual park in predominantly-black Harlem, building only an elevated highway for about 20 blocks north of 125th Street. The little bit of park that Mayor LaGuardia pressured him to actually build includes this comfort station. “The Power Broker” was released 44 years ago, but in that time, no one at @nycparks ever removed Moses’ racist monkeys. Somebody did, however, recently give them a fresh coat of paint. . #RobertMoses #RobertCaro #ThePowerBroker #PowerBroker #NewYork #NYC #RiversidePark #WestSide #HudsonRiverGreenway #EverydayNYC #HeritageNotHate

Starting the new year off right with portrait photography/a long overdue introduction to studio lighting at #CUNYJ18 January Academy with @jenniferaltman and @skyreid . (Pic of me at the end by @virginiajeffr) . #EvilKyle

One month and 1058 pages left in #CUNYJ18 winter break! . Shoutout to Channey and the folks at the Calvert City, Kentucky @wafflehouseofficial for the wonderful coffee, country ham and southern poutine: chunked, covered and country (gravy not pictured.) . #WaffleHouse #RobertMoses #Kentucky #RobertCaro #Waffle #Coffee #Foodstagram #eeeeats #FixTheGoddamnSubway

Seeing Star Wars tonight, but this laptop gag from Senator Chuck Schumer was the most entertaining thing I’ll encounter today. #CUNYJReports

#Bronx #Green #Glow #EverydayNYC

Last one from the #marathon . #CUNYJReports #CUNYJMarathon17 #CUNYJ18 #Marathon #NYCMarathon #TCSNYCMarathon #NYCMarathon2017 #Bronx #MottHaven #SouthBronx #WillisAve #OnAssignment

The Bronx is burning. . #Riverdale #Bronx #CharlotteBronte #HudsonRiver #Ivy

One year down... . #Film #FilmIsNotDead #ShootFilm #35mm #Kodak #Ektar #Ektar100 . #tbt #Protest #NotMyPresident #LoveTrumpsHate #Trump #DonaldTrump #ImWithHer #FuckTrump #FuckDonaldTrump #FuckPenceToo #MAGA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #NYC #Manhattan #Midtown

Dorito’s owner, social worker Abigail Martin, voted “yes” on the #ConCon because she wants term limits in #NYS government. Dorito abstained, because he feels that his constitutional right to bark at “tall men” isn’t under threat. . Most of the other people I spoke with in Riverdale and Kingsbridge voted “no” today, including every teacher. UFT has been one of he most ardent campaigners against the convention for months, arguing that it puts future teacher pensions in very real jeopardy. . #CUNYJReports #CUNYJ18 #ElectionDay #Election2017 #NYCVotes #NYSVotes

@nellcasey interviewed me when I first applied to intern at Gothamist back in 2014. She’s one of the best editors I’ve ever worked with, and an even more wonderful person. @scottheins, likewise, is one of the finest photographers working in New York today and a constant cause of impostor syndrome. . #DNAistUnion/#WGAEast rallied in front of City Hall yesterday after billionaire and principled conservative Joe Ricketts shut down #Gothamist and #DNAinfo nationwide in retaliation for the sites’ NYC journalists organizing to protect their rights as workers. They were joined in solidarity by @dc37afscme, @nysut, @transportationalternatives, @drichardsnyccouncil, @williamsjumaane, Public Advocate Letitia James, @nyccomptroller, @galeabrewer, NYS Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, NYC Councilmembers Helen Rosenthal and Antonio Reynoso, and a slew of other labor unions, journalists and electeds.

More pics from yesterday’s fun run, taken in Mott Haven, near the Pulaski Bridge and at the finish line. . #CUNYJReports #CUNYJMarathon17 #CUNYJ18 #Marathon #NYCMarathon #TCSNYCMarathon #NYCMarathon2017 #Brooklyn #OnAssignment

First dispatch for #CUNYJMarathon17/#CUNYJReports/#CUNYJ18 from the foot of the #Verrazano in #BayRidge. Check out my interactive before/after map later—with photos from around the city—and NYC Photography Mayor @scoboco’s photos for @gothamist, which will appear later in the @villagevoice. . And of course, good luck to @5ftwndr and @lzak88, who are both running today! . #Marathon #NYCMarathon #TCSNYCMarathon #NYCMarathon2017 #Brooklyn #OnAssignment

Wishing everyone a very spooky game 6 of the #WorldSeries. . #Cubs #Baseball #ChicagoCubs #Wrigley #WrigleyField #GoCubsGo #Chicago #NorthSide #WindyCity . #Aerochrome #Aerochrome400 #Kodak #KodakAerochrome #EIR #KodakEIR #IR #Infrared #ColorInfrared #ExpiredFilm #Film #FilmIsNotDead #ShootFilm #35mm #FPP #FilmPhotographyProject #FPPInfrachrome #Infrachrome #ColorInfraredFilm #InfraredFilm

#Cubs #Baseball #ChicagoCubs #Wrigley #WrigleyField #GoCubsGo #ThatsCub #Chicago #NorthSide #WindyCity . #Aerochrome #Aerochrome400 #Kodak #KodakAerochrome #EIR #KodakEIR #IR #Infrared #ColorInfrared #ExpiredFilm #Film #FilmIsNotDead #ShootFilm #35mm #FPP #FilmPhotographyProject #FPPInfrachrome #Infrachrome #ColorInfraredFilm #InfraredFilm

"Come on everybody, let's scream and yell. We're gonna do the shuffle and ring your bell." . #Bears #ChicagoBears #Football #Stadium #Architecture #Chicago #Lakeshore #WindyCity . #Aerochrome #Aerochrome400 #Kodak #KodakAerochrome #EIR #KodakEIR #IR #Infrared #ColorInfrared #ExpiredFilm #Film #FilmIsNotDead #ShootFilm #35mm #FPP #FilmPhotographyProject #FPPInfrachrome #Infrachrome #ColorInfraredFilm #InfraredFilm

Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. This building is mostly just three stories of buttons that are really fun to press. . #MOSAID #MuseumOfScienceAndIndustry #Science #Architecture #Chicago #SouthSide #HydePark #WindyCity . #Aerochrome #Aerochrome400 #Kodak #KodakAerochrome #EIR #KodakEIR #IR #Infrared #ColorInfrared #ExpiredFilm #Film #FilmIsNotDead #ShootFilm #35mm #FPP #FilmPhotographyProject #FPPInfrachrome #Infrachrome #ColorInfraredFilm #InfraredFilm

Chicago's Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright's non-aqueous, non-museum masterpiece. Now available in red. . #RobieHouse #FrankLloydWright #WrightSites #Architecture #Chicago #SouthSide #HydePark #WindyCity . #Aerochrome #Aerochrome400 #Kodak #KodakAerochrome #EIR #KodakEIR #IR #Infrared #ColorInfrared #ExpiredFilm #Film #FilmIsNotDead #ShootFilm #35mm #FPP #FilmPhotographyProject #FPPInfrachrome #Infrachrome #ColorInfraredFilm #InfraredFilm

Surprisingly decent Wrigley view. . #Cubs #Chicago #WindyCity #NorthSide #Cubbies #GoCubsGo #ThatsCub #GhostCubs #ZombieCubs #BillyGoat #1908 #Wrigley #WrigleyField #Baseball . #Film #FilmIsNotDead #ShootFilm #35mm #Fuji #Fujifilm #Fujicolor #Fujicolor200 #FujicolorC200