Battery Park City: West Street

April 17

North End Way (Design by Preston Scott Cohen)

200 West Street

Note: The above picture may be pretty. Beautiful flowers can grow on a pile of dung. 200 West Street is the address Goldman Sachs. For those who don't remember, or never knew, Goldman Sachs is one of the bailed out firms that sold millions of dollars of junk "credit default swaps" to its own customer with full knowledge that they were almost worthless.  It is one of the major investment banks, along with Citibank and other "too big to fail" institutions, that precipitated the crash of 2008.  Most of us are still suffering while it thrives. Its CEO is a multimillionaire, an arrogant free man, while hundreds of thousands of his victims, down the line, lost their jobs and their homes.

Lego City

Williamsburg

March 22

Skateboards

Car Toon

Robot Mural (Bedford Ave. & North 3rd. Street)

742

Backseat Driver

Street Mural by D*face (Roebling St. & Hope St.)

Hanging Out

East Village: Avenues A and B

March 6

 Reflection in Terrariums Created by Paula Hayes

 Reflection in a Terrarium

 Reflection in the Window of an Ave A Bric-a-Brac Shop

In Memory of Nelson

Columbus Circle Reflections

February 28

Facets: Reflections on the Trump International Hotel

Strolling Through the Urban Jungle

Herald Square Reflections

February 25

 A Macy's Window

Reflection in the Rear Window of an SUV

Garment District Reflection

February 23

 Fire Station Furs

Down on Wall Street

December 13

 Reflection in the New York Stock Exchange Window

 Police Check Point

Strange Bedfellows

Liberty Plaza

Florence: shop window reflections

August, 2011

Fading Away

Walking on Broadway

July 8 and 9

 Forever 21,  near Times Square

In a Fish Bowl, 100 Street

 In the shadow of the Metro theater,  99 Street

Rockefeller Center

  
June 2

Among the most talented in New York City are the window display designers. The windows at Anthropology that I saw today are marvelously done.  I stayed there for about two hour, left and came back again for a different light.  The display and the reflections combined in some interesting ways.  In a month or so the only traces will be the photographs taken by thousands of tourists.

 Girl though the window

 Display and reflection in the Anthropologie window (2)

Display and reflection in the Anthropologie window (1)

Fifth Avenue Mannequin

Downtown, October 8

Chambers Street

Tweed Courthouse Chandelier (52 Chambers Street)



Reflections in a building Window -- Broadway and Grand Street


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Chinatown

It was another beautiful October day as I strolled in Chinatown. What impressed me the most today was the intensity of concentration of the people as they worked and played in this wonderful public space. A guy with a big camera glued to his face caused hardly a stir as he clicked and clicked while walking among them

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Chelsea

Chelsea Piers, September 2.

While other parts of the country suffers through a housing crisis reminiscent of the Great Depression, Manhattan is still undergoing a building boom. While elsewhere the headlines read "Default," here it's: "Another Crane Topples, Killing Two." And in Chelsea: buildings going up, sidewalks already jammed with yuppies and tourists provide outdoor seating for the restaurant and cafe crowd, lots of new art galleries and "energy" everywhere.

On a summer night by the Hudson, with Jersey City sparkling, there's an exuberant mix of walkers, joggers, rollerbladers and cyclists. As I walk along the Chelsea piers, I wonder where the money is coming from. Is it high tech employers like IAC? Is it the tourists from Europe and elsewhere who come here to shop at this new bargain basement? Is it still money spilling over from Wall Street? How much longer will the party last?

Ship in the Night



Night Jogger


Double vision


IAC building by Frank Gehry

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Manhattan at Night, August 4

Late Shoppers: Corner 5th. Avenue and 57th. Street

(The background for this picture was a couple hundred vertical fluorescent light tubes in the Louis Vuitton window display at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th. Street. That window display was dismantled a few days after I took this picture.)

Bus Stop at Columbus Circle



Bus Stop, 5th Avenue. 6PM.



Before going downtown to see the Manhattan lights, I lingered a while at the Dyckman Street station.






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