266. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Pulaski Bridge. To the left (south) is Greenpoint, Brooklyn. To the right (north) is Long Island City, Queens. Notable because Amazon has just announced a headquarters for LIC, which means 25,000 jobs. With the Cornell Tech Campus having recently opened on Roosevelt Island, it seems this Midtown East edge of Manhattan gets more interesting (crowded) by the day.

265. NEW YORK ON FOOT. East New York, Brooklyn. Especially on cloudy days, parts of outer borough New York remind me of outer borough London.

264. NEW YORK ON FOOT. East New York, Brooklyn. So-called due to it having been the easternmost part of New York City in the day. Some of the great place names are found around here: Bushwick, New Lots, Canarsie, The Hole, Cypress Hills, Brownsville, Starrett City, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Jamaica Bay. Brooklyn is by far my favorite part of New York. I laugh at the thought of Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke’s exchange in Angel Heart: “Are you a religious man, Mr. Angel?” Mickey’s answer: “I’m from Brooklyn.”

263. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Upper East Side. A classic “color rhyme”.

256. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Flatbush, Brooklyn. The deep, dark, delightful midsection of Brooklyn that sees few visitors. Wiki: The name Flatbush is a calque of the Dutch language “Vlacke bos” meaning “flat woodland” or “wooded plain”.

254. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Queens Bridge.

253. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Woodside, Queens. The classic low-rise architecture of the outer boroughs aside, this photo features a digital camera trying to be Kodak Ektachrome.

252. NEW YORK ON FOOT. The Bronx. Maybe not the Bronx per se, but taken on a bridge over the Harlem River that connects Manhattan and the Bronx. Looking southeast toward Queens.

251. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Williamsburg Bridge. Looking west to Manhattan.

250. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Psychological insight on the hood in the hood.

249. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn. This look is ubiquitous in the industrial northeast, but reaches its full splendor in NYC. “Nineteenth Century Steel Construction as American Epistemology” would be a worthy doctoral dissertation.

248. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Hells Kitchen. Being just a few blocks from the Theater District, there has to be a pun about “hoofers” in there somewhere . . .

247. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Brownsville, Brooklyn. Street scene in the life of New York on the eastern end of Eastern Parkway, my favorite steet due to its similarity to boulevards in Paris. Art writers talk a lot about “narrative” in photos, or “movement in a still image”, which is about subjective contour and incipient motion.

246. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Greenwich Village.

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244. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Hell’s Kitchen.

243. NEW YORK ON FOOT. 7 train at Grand Central. The most unique NYC subway station? The best thing about the 7 is that it goes above ground as soon as it hits Queens.

242. NEW YORK ON FOOT. The 7th ave local on the IRT. “The Interborough Rapid Transit Company was the private operator of the original underground New York City Subway line that opened in 1904. The IRT was purchased by the city in June 1940.

241. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Turtle Bay, the most inaptly named New York neighborhood.

239. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Kings Highway station on the B train; south Brooklyn is a world all its own. The first thing a Midtowner notices is the ocean air. It has oxygen in it.