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New York - Shedwa's Tour #13 - The Met

2007-06-18T14:20:00.000-07:00

"The Met" is one of the world's largest and most important art museums... located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, United States along what is known as Museum Mile... The Met's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art.

Thanks to shedwa for the submission! You should check out his blog for New York commentary and pictures of cool ads, like this one:

New York - Shedwa's Tour #14 - The Apple Store

2007-06-18T12:39:00.000-07:00

There's a great close-up picture of the store's glass cube on Wikipedia.

Thanks to shedwa for the submission! You should check out his blog for New York commentary and pictures of cool ads, like this one:

New York - Shedwa's Tour #15 - The George Washington Bridge

2007-06-18T12:29:00.000-07:00

From Wikipedia:

The GW is considered one of the world's busiest bridges in terms of vehicle traffic; In 2004, the bridge carried 108,404,000 vehicles, with current AADT estimates of nearly 300,000 vehicles daily. This number is similar to that of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The GW span is the fourth largest suspension bridge in the U.S as of 2006.

Thanks to shedwa for the submission! You should check out his blog for New York commentary and pictures of cool ads, like this one:

Coming Up - A tour of New York City

2007-06-16T11:09:00.001-07:00

Reader shedwa has been gracious enough to send in some great Street View links of the well-known sights of New York City. So far most of our links have been to San Francisco, so coming soon: views from the other side of fly-over country.

Palo Alto - Greg Brown mural #3 - Garbage man with alien

2007-06-04T10:13:00.000-07:00

See this post for more about Greg Brown and his art style.

Palo Alto - Greg Brown mural #3 - Bank robber falls from roof

2007-06-04T10:03:00.000-07:00

See this post for more about Greg Brown and his art style.

Palo Alto - Greg Brown mural #2 - Secret agent with bird on head

2007-06-04T09:48:00.000-07:00

From Wikipedia:

Greg Brown is a painter and native of Palo Alto, California, best known for his Trompe l'oeil murals in the San Francisco Bay area.

From Wikipedia:

Trompe-l'oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from French for "trick the eye"...

San Francisco Landmarks #10 - The World Famous Bushman

2007-06-04T09:33:00.001-07:00

(via Laughing Squid)

From Wikipedia:

...the World Famous Bushman, is a busker (street performer) who... hides behind branches and waits for unsuspecting people to wander by. When they approach, he jumps out and startles them... In a "good year", Johnson claims to earn $60,000... He employs a bodyguard to protect him against attacks by the unamused...

Check out the hilarious picture of some girls being scared.

San Francisco - Adult bookstore on O'Farrell Street

2007-06-04T09:23:00.000-07:00

(via Mashable)

If you want to work there... "Full/Part time Great pay! Benefits!

Denver Area - The Giant Pumpkin

2007-06-04T09:19:00.000-07:00

(via Mashable)

San Francisco - Lombard Street - The boy with the green eye

2007-06-04T09:15:00.000-07:00

(via Mashable)

We've shown Lombard Street before. It's the curviest street in the US.

San Francisco - The black wall in the middle of Howard Street

2007-06-04T09:12:00.000-07:00

(via Mashable)

San Jose - Steve Wozniak Way

2007-06-04T09:05:00.000-07:00

Steve Wozniak is the co-founder of Apple Computer. From Wikipedia:

Wozniak has several nicknames, including "The Woz", "Wizard of Woz" and "iWoz" (a pun on iPod). "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") is also the name of a company Wozniak founded. He is known for his introverted character, and he finds his level of celebrity somewhat annoying.

(via Mashable)

Welcome to StreetReviewer.com!

2007-06-04T07:02:00.000-07:00

Welcome to StreetReviewer.com, with all the best pictures from Google Maps™ Street View. We let you spy on people and things in San Francisco (and the San Francisco Bay Area,) New York, Denver, Los Vegas, and Miami.

Be sure to vote on your favorite views, or check out the current leaders here.

You can also view images by category. Try checking out voyeur, breaking the law, or weird. All the categories are listed on the web site in the column on the right, or you can click here.

Palo Alto - Greg Brown mural #1 - Man pushing alien in stroller

2007-06-03T17:39:00.000-07:00

Nice shot of the same, on Flickr here.

(thanks Derek!)

San Francisco - Motorcycle guy makes eye contact

2007-06-03T15:12:00.000-07:00

(via Wired)

San Francisco - Woman takes picture of the Google Van

2007-06-03T15:09:00.000-07:00

(via Wired)

San Francisco - The police bust from a different angle

2007-06-03T15:05:00.000-07:00

Turns out the previously mentioned police bust is visible by walking down the street and looking from a different angle:

San Francisco - Runaway stroller

2007-06-03T13:59:00.000-07:00

(via Wired)

San Francisco - Voyeur cam captures a voyeur

2007-06-03T13:56:00.000-07:00

(via Wired)

Dania Beach - The Google Van gets a speeding ticket??

2007-06-03T13:52:00.000-07:00

(via Wired)

San Francisco - Nose picker 2

2007-06-03T13:50:00.000-07:00

(via Wired)

San Francisco - Nose picker 1

2007-06-03T13:47:00.000-07:00

(via Wired)

San Francisco - Anti-war protester

2007-06-03T13:43:00.000-07:00

(via Wired)

San Francisco - The police bust that no longer happened

2007-06-03T13:40:00.001-07:00

This used to be a picture of some police offers and some unhappy people. Now it's gone:

(via Wired)