45. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Lower East Side. Although gentrification is on everybody’s lips, “Loisaida” is still a gritty neighbourhood.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
38. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Woodside, Queens. Under the 7 train.
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.
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.
35. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Crown Heights, Brooklyn. An Ashcan School mood looking North on Eastern Parkway.
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.
33. PASSAGES. Dilke, Saskatchewan. One visitor described this place as “miles and miles of miles.”
32. PASSAGES. Inner Harbor, Baltimore. Pleasure craft in the foreground, cranes and the remnants of a thriving shipbuilding industry in the background. Pittsburgh and Baltimore are the cities in the Eastern USA that wear their industrial past and newfound optimism well. The intersection of old and new can create quality of life.
31. PASSAGES. Baltimore. Baltimore is visually complex, but also an unusual crossroads: not quite the South, but not Northeastern either; a heavy industry town busy reinventing itself, but also a nautical culture (Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US). It was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants, and is one of only 41 independent cities in the USA. Possibly the most interesting (and maligned) city on the East Coast.
30. PASSAGES. Baltimore. The ghost town found a few steps from Johns Hopkins Hospital. One of the oddest places on the planet.
29. PASSAGES. Baltimore. An adorable city that has some epic dead zones.
28. PASSAGES. Alice Beach, Saskatchewan. A pack of coyotes resides in the field in the background. They provide a choral performance each evening.
27. PASSAGES. Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. “Hard to be an atheist” is the thought that comes to mind.
26. PASSAGES. Highway 2, near the village of Holdfast, Saskatchewan. Moments after a rainstorm.