New York City started as a small village that kept itself constrained to the area now known as Wall Street.  By all accounts, New York City itself could never have been described as normal.

You only need to watch the weekly episode of Real Housewives of New York City to know that is true.

However, New York and Times Square in particular seem to have turned on the crazy lately.  Times Square was never a place I spent much time in.  It just wasn’t an area that held any interest to me.  Now, well, now that is all changed.

Now, well, let’s have a look.  I want to preface the following photos by saying that I purposely made them look urban and gritty.  I wanted this look for them.  So, first we have kind of a Japanese music video fantasy feel.  Or if you prefer, a girl in a colorful outfit dancing:

Just a bit of a Lost in Translation feeling I guess.  Next we have more angry urban grit.  These guys were really angry.  I mean I stepped far away to get these shots:

Through the magic of the zoom lens, sharpening and lightening, we got something here.

Of course, there were quite a few be-costumed creatures.  They get progressively more weird as they go on:

And now it is just going to get weird.  I know, you thought we had reached the maximum capacity for weird, but we haven’t even scratched the surface yet.

First, there’s this guy.  The only explanation I can get about the outfit is that it was a hot day and the guy couldn’t decide what to wear.  I can’t even really explain it otherwise:

And to close out, quite possibly two of the weirdest photos I’ve ever taken.  And I think that is saying something, considering the colorful menagerie that has graced these pages.  Well, here goes.  Neon rats, man with hat. Go: