Posts in Category: NEW YORK ON FOOT

Gerritsen end
102. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. A shoreline community in south Brooklyn that was flooded out by Hurricane Sandy. I made a short video to publicize their plight, and thanks to heroic volunteers it was not the end for this fascinating neighborhood. Link to the video here.

Bus dist
101. NEW YORK ON FOOT. East Midtown, Manhattan. This image reminds me somehow of the Manhattan short stories by O Henry. They are worth reading, certainly not for their literary value, but they capture something of the restless aspirations of “The City”.

TS Midtown
100. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown Manhattan. The allure of Times Square and the nocturnal motion of the city.

Park Ave viaduct
99. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown Manhattan. Under the Park Avenue Viaduct on East 45th Street.

GC term
98. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Grand Central Terminal. One of the great indoor spaces in the world.

Park Ave S
97. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Park Avenue South, Manhattan. Thanks to the city ordinance known as “Local Law 11”, Manhattanites spend a lot of time under scaffolding. It doesn’t suck in a hard rainstorm.

Red hook fairway
96. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Brownsville FDNY
95. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Brownsville, Brooklyn. “Brown brick two story” describes a lot of the architecture in outer Brooklyn and Queens. Municipal workers refer to the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) as “Fidny”.

Summer GPoint
94. NEW YORK ON FOOT. On Greenpoint Bridge (one of the dividing lines between Brooklyn and Queens). Looking west at the Manhattan skyline on a placid summer evening. This image proves again that digital doesn’t modulate light anything close to film.

Bed Crown
93. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Brooklyn. On the border between Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant.

Billy graff
92. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Urbano Hipsteric Ironia, known simply as Billy(burg).

Welcom bridge
91. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Queensborough Bridge. A nice sentiment from a poor speller.

bronxbridge
89. NEW YORK ON FOOT. The Bronx. Taken from the Willis Avenue Bridge, the Triborough Bridge in the background.

2nd ave
88. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Upper East Side. Sidewalk life on Second Avenue.

park slope
87. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Park Slope, Brooklyn. You can tell its Brooklyn because sky and trees are featured.

Benson
85. NEW YORK ON FOOT. The N Train in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Caught this in passing with my cell phone and was so interested that I planned to go back and cover it later with a real camera. Two days later it was announced that this and several other stops on the N had been closed for a year of repairs.

Blizzard 16
84. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown Manhattan. The blizzard of January 23, 2016 on Third Avenue.

dumbo
83. NEW YORK ON FOOT. DUMBO, Brooklyn. In a city full of neighborhood acronyms (Tribeca, Soho, Nolita), DUMBO may be the best (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Not the greatest photo ever taken, but it contains some New York staples: razor wire, a bridge, the Freedom Tower (under construction), retro industrial chic, and a classic rooftop water tank. An interesting weekend project would be to walk DUMBO, then rent The French Connection and see how different it was in the 70’s.

bronx
82. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Under the El in The Bronx.

Sunnyside grey 81. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Sunnyside, Queens in winter. The city would not be what it is without its deep industrial infrastructure.