128. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Williamsburg Bridge. My ambition as an immigrant to New York was to walk all the bridges, a feat frustrated by the Verrazano having no pedestrian walkways and losing patience with the 103rd Street Footbridge (a “vertical lift” bridge raised for ships on the East River, and one of the quirkiest structures in the Western Hemisphere). The Williamsburg Bridge is as much a sculpture as a conveyance, and gets my vote even if the Brooklyn Bridge is more famous. Why are we incapable of such magnificent public infrastructure nowadays?

127. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Sunnyside, Queens. Aside from an inexplicable affection for this gritty district of Queens, the image proves the serial fact that the most dramatic views of Manhattan do not happen in Manhattan.

126. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Gramercy, Manhattan. To counter a brutal late summer heat and humidity wave in New York, I present a cool winter sky. Manhattan has an unbelievable number of micro neighborhoods with distinct styles, histories and characters–every four blocks it seems. The dense shadows and short days of winter can make for sun starvation in these canyons. Streets in Manhattan have a shady and a sunny side–you walk the warmer sun side in winter and the shade in summer.