Category Archives: New York City

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Top of the Rock, etc.

  Just the usual pre-Christmas goings-on at Rockefeller Center.

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Building Hudson Yards

On the job at Hudson Yards, the mammoth West Side development in New York City. You can walk right up to the construction site on the Highline, a few blocks east of the Hudson River. As the developer’s web site says: “Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States and the largest development in New York City […]

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NYC-NJ

New York City’s busy Hudson River Park promenade on a late August day. Across the river, New Jersey: Hoboken, and the growing high-rises of Jersey City.

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In the City, Greenpoint

Family strolling on a Thursday night, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC.

Also posted in Brooklyn, Night
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Penn Station, iPhone

NYC’s Penn Station, iPhone 4s. It’s no secret that newer iPhones take decent pictures. The best part is that a smart phone is a camera you have with you most of the time. It’s a trick to keep the lens clean and clear though. A case helps avoid scratches and a piece of plastic electrical tape can keep the pocket lint off the lens, as […]

Also posted in iPhone, Travel
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NJ Pass Under

What you can see out the window of an Amtrak train between Manhattan and Newark, NJ.  

Also posted in New Jersey, Travel
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Same-Day Wash

Same-day wash, Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.  

Also posted in Brooklyn, Bushwick, New York, urban
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9/11 Memorial

The National September 11 Memorial opened to the public on 9/12/11, although it’s not finished. Above, One World Trade Center, also known as Freedom Tower, rises toward its planned height of 105 stories (1776 feet), to be completed in 2013. Below, detail of one of the two pools/waterfalls that mark the sites of the original Twin Towers. By January more than a million people had […]

Also posted in architecture, New York
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The Flatiron

The Flatiron Building at 175 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan attracts photographers because of its unusual wedge shape (like an old flatiron from the days when irons were chunks of iron that had to be heated up before they were used to press clothing), because of the iconic 1904 Steichen photo, below, left, next to mine from a similar angle, and because of many other artists’ attempts […]

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Renaissance Portraits

I was back in New York last week, so I’ll have a bunch of urban posts over the next few days — from Fifth Avenue in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, above, to Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, the 9/11 Memorial and some stops in between.

Also posted in New York, silhouette, Uncategorized
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Santacon, NYC

I hate to overdo Santas, but I happened to be in New York during the annual flash mob known as Santacon, also known as the Santa Pub Crawl. Thousands of Santa wannabes followed Tweets around the city, from South Street Seaport to City Hall Park, Grand Central, the public library, Times Square and bars in between, depending on the Santa, since not all Santas are […]

Also posted in Christmas, Colors, People
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Big Apple Apple

Spring rush, outside the Apple store on Broadway, Upper West Side. More NYC photos are here.

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