Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Walking towards a painter's studio, Gowanus, Brooklyn

Hot dogs and shadows of the iron F-train bridge.


Twilight near Smith and 9th.

Close to home



From Fort Greene to Grand Army Plaza via Washington Avenue, Brooklyn

On Washington Ave., Fort Greene, classic Brooklyn.


Brooklyn brownstones on St. James, Fort Greene


My favorite Washington Ave. edifice, with rock, is for sale!


Tom's Restaurant on the corner of Washington and Sterling Place.


My favorite graffiti of the neighborhood. A reference to Munch's The Scream.


A guy on a horse at Plaza St. and St. John's Street, Brooklyn


The bicycle, its shadow and its cyber self.


Condos going up on Eastern Parkway. For $1,000,000 you can have a condo with a view overlooking Prospect Park and it's nighttime traffic of rats and cruising men.


The Church of God Victory on Washington and St. Marks, Brooklyn.

Downtown Manhattan

Lamps behind bars on the Bowery.



A beautiful green-themed lobby. Everything seems to be in the way, but overall it's quite pleased with itself, smug, snug.

Midtown Manhattan - Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, and 34th Street

Business as usual, in the beautiful Grand Central Terminal, 42nd Street at Park Ave.

Just outside the Main Library, looking towards 6th Avenue and the Grace Building.

Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, near Classon Avenue

A gorgeous yellow on the corner building. near Myrtle and Grand, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn


An elegant old tenement on Myrtle near Grand, not far from the Pratt Institute.

Frank Gehry's first Manhattan building - the IAC Office Building, West Chelsea

It's hard to get a view of the entire building without standing in the middle of horrendous West Side Highway traffice, but it can be nicely juxtaposed with razorwire adorning the top of the lot across the street.






Yes, it has screens inside that change color. Is it lighting? or is it video? I haven't been inside because the whole show is visible from the street, and the huge amount of glass means lots of reflections, multiples, and an image of everything but the building itself. Supermodernism in action.