235. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Avenue of the Americas.

225. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Soho.

224. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Lower East Side. Looking east toward Brooklyn on a summer evening.

#223. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Riverdale, The Bronx. Riverdale is one of the little-known gems of New York, as is this Riverdale subway station on the “elevated train”, known as The El. In the day there were several Els in Manhattan, but nowadays you will only find them in the outer boroughs.

222. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Brooklyn. East Williamsburg, maybe the most interesting industrial wasteland in the Western Hemisphere.

221. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown East.

211. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Spring sunshine in Soho.

210. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Morningside Heights. Looking southwest from a rooftop after a spring snow, a few blocks east of the Hudson River.

209. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Morningside Heights. The 7th Avenue local.

177. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Prospect Park South, Brooklyn. Taken “that first winter” in New York.

170. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Manhattan. Looking south from the corner of Crosby and Bleeker, which depending how you cut it is considered part of the East Village, the West Village, and/or Lower Manhattan. Neighborhood borders tend to be delightfully fuzzy. A lifetime upper Manhattanite I know would dismiss this area as “such downtown energy.” On the other hand, she considers downtown to be anything below 42nd Street.

167. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Upper East Side. Looking west across 5th Avenue into Central Park on a spring Sunday.

166. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown Manhattan. Semiotics is the study of signs, and regarding photography a semiotician might say that a still image is in fact a moving image. There is a sequence the eye follows in a photograph as it moves left to right, up and down, guided by the content of the photo. This photo has three things going on and humourously comments on the constant collision of significations in this city. In other words, I thought it was funny.

161. NEW YORK ON FOOT. East Midtown. The quotidien life and weather of a great city. New York winters are of the North Atlantic variety, sleety and damp like London or Paris. There are plenty of heavy snow dumps, but they melt into a foot-soaking mess after a day or two.

160. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Kips Bay, Manhattan. Evening summer light, neon, and sidewalk life in an impersonal stretch of far east Manhattan. The green cast of the flourescents in the deli evoke a different time.

159. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Central Park. Dogs and daffodils on a spring day at Cedar Hill. Cedar Hill’s nickname is Dog Hill, due to the fact that between 6 and 7am the area is inundated with hundreds of offleash Manhattan canines having the time of their lives. Kids and dogs were not built to be cooped up in small apartments, which is why I believe theirs is the purest love for a much loved place.

158. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Harlem. Looking north at the bottom of the hill that transitions the Upper East Side into El Barrio (AKA Spanish or East Harlem). The two communities are not alike (to put it mildly). The various hills in Manhattan were named when the island was rural, “mostly hills and shrubbery”. The bucolic place names are ironic, Turtle Bay being the most iconic. I have tried walking the boundaries of Murray and Carnegie Hill a few times, but it is not easy to navigate hills in the urban tangle.

157. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Staten Island. An outer borough that looks anything but outer borough.

156. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The moniker “outer borough” is commonly used in New York, referring to the four boroughs that are not Manhattan. Having cut my teeth in Brooklyn, I will never see New York as Manhattan Only. This photo shows two common features of the outer boroughs: the elevated subway tracks and the low rise dwellings (both of which you will find in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn–but not Staten Island, which is another world again).

155. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Astoria, Queens. The NYC subway is an endless source of interest.