More Gay Pride parade, love the old punk dude! Check out his spike of hair, and those boots! How many piercings do you suppose are lurking under that clothing? He certainly is overdressed in comparison to the boys on the Proud Few float. Gotta say, they were playing some fantastic music. And those three in the center, red hot pants, white hot pants, and the shirtless one, can dance!

As promised, here are the first of the images from yesterday's Gay Pride Parade on Fifth Avenue. Not the waterfront, but after turning west on Ninth Street, it certainly ended up there. I hadn't planned on going, I was uptown for a meeting and got caught up in it on my way home. And since this is the 40th anniversary of Stonewall and I've had lots of gay friends, I'd like to take a few days to posts some photos.

So, before I show you the photos I took at the Gay Pride Parade today, here's one last look at Chelsea and the Meatpacking District, seen this time from the water. On the very far left is the Sanitation pier, those white umbrellas are on a small dock that's got a playground on it, and the odd rounded shape along the waterfront to the right is a walkway that faces the Lackawanna terminal across the river. The building in the distance with the water towers is on 26th Street and the big blue double building where the High Line ends. Then it becomes the Village.

Wrapping up your mini-tour of the waterfront Chelsea/Meatpacking area. This is the Sanitation pier viewed from the south and taken that same day as the rest of the images of the New Jersey fire. A couple of helicopters are in the air, and there are lots of garbage trucks parked on the pier. You can also see the rounded end of the abandoned pier 57.

Same rocks shot from two sides, the top was taken through the fence in the image below, which is familiar because I posted one very similar recently. The top also shows the edge of yesterday's Sanitation pier, while the lower one not only shows the abandoned pier 57, the golfing range nets of pier 59, a bit of the Geary and it's patchwork window neighbor, but also the rusty old Cunard archway and pier 54 as well.

Two more images from the day of the Jersey fire that I posted Saturday. The left view is slightly north and east shot from pier 54, the Geary is behind the building with the Moet sign; and there's the High Line again, cutting through the brick building. Below is the Sanitation pier, directly south of pier 54's fence, where they keep sand for snowy weather, among many other odd things.

Across the West Side Highway from pier 54 is this scene of the Meat Packing District. There's the High Line, note the two different metal work sections, the plainer is probably repairs. Lots of architectural eras are represented, with some contemporary graffiti and a couple stinky delivery trucks. By the way, you could walk through this area with your eyes shut and know where you were because of that smell.