Running with the Cars

I frequently see people walking or jogging in bike or lanes and I can’t seem to help but think how ridiculously idiotic they look.  I can only speculate that their reason for engaging in this behavior is that they believe that all the people walking on the sidewalks will slow them down, even in an industrial ghost town stretch of street such as this.  I can get annoyed with cyclist that don’t follow traffic rules, ride on the sidewalks, endanger pedestrians, etc, but I’m in their corner on this one; and when this pedestrian has to have some fixie’s handlebars surgically removed from their rectum, perhaps in time they will change their behavior.

Lower Manhattan Repeating Patterns

Pedestrian overpass at the base of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.

Breakers and blue globes on the Battery Park waterfront.

Sun Sets Over Tribeca

Columnar

The Ft. Hamilton (F, G Trains) Subway stop in Brooklyn.

One Way Canyon

Taken along Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Beneath the BQE

 

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway cuts a huge, noisy, antiquated, and congested swath through the boroughs the bare its name.  Seeing as I don’t drive it regularly, or even own a car for that matter, I have very little use for the aging infrastructure.  Well, with one exception, the photos I take of it.  These photos were taken on Park Avenue, under the BQE, in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn, and near the Navy Yard.

 

 

 

 

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The Canal Street Experience

This photo is a dirty, rusty, gritty, and a little crooked...Just like the real thing!

Love Me

Happy Hour (For Some Anyway)

Battery Park MC Ex

An unlikely holdout, only blocks from Wall Street…

People in Tribeca

Hair in Water Color...

A little bit of experimentation with overexposure, focus, and some Photoshop layering techniques to simulate a watercolor appearance. Taken between NYU and Union Square in Manhattan.

MTA Safety Campaign v2?

Taken on a indistinct brick wall in Greenpoint...

Burden...

Taken from Duane between Greenwich and Hudson Streets in the Tribeca area of Manhattan.

Skyline behind the Sign

Midtown Manhattan skyline in the distance from when Greenpoint border Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

Bayside, But Not Bayside....Gated Community, But Not a Gated Community

Taken near the waterfront near the Greenpoint/Williamsburg border.

Lower East Side Rooftops

Hack-Ends

Near Union Square...

Brooklyn Blues

A few old railcar tracks and cobblestone streets still remain in a few Brooklyn neighborhoods, Dumbo is one of them.

The Party's Over Here

Just a reminder to practice restraint, because you could end up feeling this way the day after. Taken in a shop window, near Union Square.

Icy Walk along New Utrect Avenue

 

My photographic documentation of the city tend to slow to the crawl during winter months.  I find it difficult to muster the motivation to squeeze in time for a photographic section during inclimate weather, but something had to give, and it occurred on a windy, 18 degree, February day.  This walk took place on New Utrect Avenue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn.

Williamsburg Bulk

The old Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn, taken from the Williamsburg Bridge...

Well Armed Architecture

One of the buildings with the coolest Romanesque architecture in NYC is the Kingsbridge Armory in The Bronx. Its future use has been somewhat of an area of political contention for the city and the Bloomberg administration.

Bowery Mutant

Glamorous

Taken near the corner of Broadway and 12th in the Union Square area of Manhattan.

190

The 190th Street station near Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan is one of the deeper (but not the deepest) in the subway system…

Lower East Signs

Taken from Essex Street on Lower East Side of Manhattan...

South Side Williamsburg on High

Taken from the Marcy Avenue Subway station in Williamsburg.

Essex Beauty

Near Essex and Stanton on the Lower East Side.

Bus Stop Blues

Taken on Broadway, near Marcy in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Under the Line(s)

Bringing out the wide angle lens under the Marcy Avenue station (J,M,Z) in Brooklyn.

A Flatbush & Fulton Saturday Afternoon

L.A. Mex and Basketball

It doesn't get anymore American than that... Taken in the Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn.

Night Approaching

←BDD3S

Very early commute in an empty Herald Square station...

York York York York York

Just which station do you think this was taken? For those readers that are not familiar New York, this station is located along the F / 6th Avenue Line in Brooklyn. This photo is best if viewed larger, you may click this image to do so.

Umbra

Winter sunlight induced visual occlusion of an indistinct highrise in downtown Brooklyn.

NYC, Rearranged

Going this day forward, the Brooklyn Bridge shall be rerouted to Midtown, the Manhattan Bridge to Battery Park, and a few major skyscrapers will also be relocated. What fun one can have with double exposures. Taken from the Brooklyn Bridge Park / Empire-Fulton Ferry Park / Dumbo area of Brooklyn. When the Superbowl is going on, this is what I do.

The Shadow Economy

Just one of many indicators of hard times in the US and world economy.  Taken near Fulton and Flatbush in downtown Brooklyn.

Formerly the Tunnel to Nowhere

Until the F/63rd Street line was connected to the main Queens Blvd line in the early 2000s, F trains terminated here.  Since it was the only stop into Queens from Manhattan, the project was known as the tunnel to nowhere.