Posts in Category: NEW YORK ON FOOT

Crown Heights drugs
47. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The corner of Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway on a winter evening.

East New York
46. NEW YORK ON FOOT. East New York, Brooklyn. East New York is in Brooklyn, West New York is in New Jersey, Long Island City is in Queens, but Brooklyn and Queens are on Long Island. And Brooklyn’s landmark Williamsburg Savings Bank is in Fort Green, not Williamsburg.

LES 1
45. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Lower East Side. Although gentrification is on everybody’s lips, “Loisaida” is still a gritty neighbourhood.

Greepoint Bridge
44. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Greenpoint Avenue Bridge. A drawbridge on Newtown Creek. On the Queens side it lands in a place technically named Blissville, although I suspect most would consider it Sunnyside. Northern Brooklyn in the background. One of those iconic north Atlantic grey days that puts one in mind of wintertime London.

Chysler
43. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown Manhattan. The Chrysler Building, still the tallest brick building in the world. Brick absorbs light much like stone does, so the Chrysler constantly changes with the moods of the sun.

Central Park 2AB
42. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Central Park. This is how the media world has changed. This photo was taken on a cell phone, and a “look” was applied. In other words, two buttons pushed on a handheld device to create something that ten years ago would have taken time and motion in a darkroom, not to mention $75 in supplies.

3ed Ave Bridge
41. NEW YORK ON FOOT. The Bronx. Looking southeast from the Third Avenue Bridge. The green metal structures to the left are the Triborough Bridge, the tan structure before that is the Willis Avenue Bridge. 13 bridges cross the Harlem River between upper Manhattan and the Bronx (a distance of only 8 miles).

Tiboro Bridge
40. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Triborough Bridge. So named because it spans three boroughs: Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. Its construction began on Black Friday, 1929. Since 2008 its official title has been the Robert F. Kennedy bridge.

Newton Creek
39. NEW NORK ON FOOT. Newtown Creek. The creek forms a border between Queens and Brooklyn (Greenpoint is on the left, Long Island City on the right). It is a natural estuary that became a busy industrial canal in the second half of the 19th century. Taken from the Pulaski Bridge looking west toward Manhattan, with the East River barely visible in the mid ground.

Woodside corridor
38. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Woodside, Queens. Under the 7 train.

Mott Sky
37. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Mott Haven, The Bronx. Just north of the Harlem River. Living in the enclosed concrete and steel canyons of Manhattan, it often comes as a shock to see the sky.

Hunters Point2
36. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Hunters Point, Queens. Near Silver Cup Studios, with the Queens Bridge and various elevated subway lines forming an entertaining tangle of overhead steel structures.

CH blizz
35. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Crown Heights, Brooklyn. An Ashcan School mood looking North on Eastern Parkway.

Boogie topography
34. NEW YORK ON FOOT. The Bronx. The topography of the Bronx. Just west of the Grand Concourse, one of the great thoroughfares of the world.

Classic Harlem
21. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Harlem. Stillness and sky, two things in short supply in Manhattan.

Bronx evening
20. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Mott Haven, The Bronx. Sidewalk life on a warm evening in the Boogie Down. Some parts of The Bronx feel like a small town.

Harlem River
19. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Harlem River. Looking west, The Bronx on the right, Harlem on the left, New Jersey in the deep background.

Billy bridge
18. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Williamsburg Bridge. The bridges of New York are themselves works of art.

Hunters Point
17. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Hunters Point, Queens. There is no end of unusual visual structures in this city–probably its greatest joy. The Queensboro Bridge is in the background.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens
16. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. “Beauty is but a slow decay.” -BD White