Last Year at Coney Island: April 7, 2007
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
New York, Brooklyn, Coney Island: 4/7/2007. Just a few days before the last season of carnival-type rides at the historic Coney Island. Looking forward to a future of condos and Las Vegas-style developments saddens the hearts of anyone who has visited the famous Astroland amusement park. The sideshow area and half of the carnival rides have already been removed to leave leveled lots which now await their facelift. I hope to visit Coney Island a few times this year and gather more photos before the landscape of the park is changed forever. This should the the first in a series of posts over the course of the next year.
夜的灯火 (Tsim Sha Tsui Night Walk)
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
香港人：Mong Kok
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO 
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO
Mong Kok is Hong Kong's epicenter of style. Locals and tourists alike clamor down double-wide traffic-free walking streets like a stampede of fashionable youth. Comparing this shopping district to New York's Times Square, or Bejing's Wang Fu Jing Da Jie, is like apples and oranges. Friday and Saturday nights are not exclusively reserved for elbow to elbow mingling, and faces blur like headlights on a busy highway all day, and late into the night. High-rise shopping malls packed with specialty shops (none much larger than walk-in closets) can be found in cohabitation with international chains. Even if you're not the shopping type, as I am not, the energy and envrionment of Mong Kok, or hours of potential "people watching", is certainly not to be missed.
