The view from a rooftop in southern Brooklyn, taken on a cold day. What looks like a single line of tall buildings, running across the middle of the picture is actually three separate clusters of tall buildings: lower Manhattan on the left, dominated by 1WTC, downtown Brooklyn for the right third of the line, and …
A nice view from the ferry landing at the foot of Old Fulton Street. There’s been a ferry landing here since the mid-1600s; this was the route that Robert Fulton used for his steam ferry in 1814. (And got his name on the two streets at either end of the route as a memorial.) The …
It may come as a surprise, but this photo Tim Michiels took is a bit distorted. The towers of the George Washington Bridge are actually vertical, and the Little Red Lighthouse, while small, is not a hydrant-sized toy.
I normally do a bit of color correction on images to get them to look their best, but that picture is untouched except for cropping. Sunset behind the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, yesterday.
I was going to title this “equal time for the ugly” but that seems overly harsh for a building that was never much loved and has been gone for nearly as long as it existed. I’ve mentioned the City Investing Building almost every time I’ve mentioned Singer, because it’s almost impossible not to: the two …
