Posts in Category: NEW YORK ON FOOT

371. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Manhattan. 2020 summed up in one photo? Outside the UN building on day 32 of the Coronavirus lockdown. Those who lived in NYC in the 1970’s probably have their own reactions to burned out cars on the street . . .

370. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Manhattan.

369. NEW YORK ON FOOT. East River, 59th Street Bridge. A small homage to the French painter Albert Marquet. One of his prints hung on the wall of my tiny quatorzieme arrondissement apartment in Paris when I lived there in the 1900’s. His human stick figures in landscapes are enigmatic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Marquet

368. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown East. Love in the Time of Cholera is one of the great names for a novel.

367. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown East. One of the secret gems of NYC, the “Porcellino” park just off Sutton place. Porcellino (Italian for “piglet”) refers to the boar statue in the middle of the image. East River and Roosevelt Island in the background. This park and its vista of the Queensboro Bridge were featured prominently in Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979). Photo taken during the Corona Virus lockdown of 2020.

364. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Hudson Yards. I shot this on a phone camera while strolling during the peak madness of Coronavirus. The architecture is dystopian enough.

357. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown East.

343. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown East. Please don’t make me say “only in New York.”

323. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Riverdale, The Bronx. “New York City is primarily composed of sediments that were metamorphosed during the Taconica nd Acadian orogenies roughly 500 – 400 million years ago. Garnets can be found in the rocks of the Hartland Formation and Manhattan Schist. It is in these hard rocks that the city skyscrapers have their foundations.” -Wiki. An Engineer in Queens once told me that you can track the location of hard rock by looking at the Manhattan skyline.