03/10/2011
The original Magnolia Bakery, popularized by Sex and the City. I’ve always found it amazing that people waste their time on line for these cupcakes, but especially now that there are Magnolias all over the city.
I was listening to an interview podcast yesterday with some urban photographers who were discussing the fact that these hanging signs are no longer legal, and recounted the story of a harlem businessman who racked up $50,000 in fines before ultimately losing his case. I guess garages and bars in the west village are more special? In any event, I always love these signs.
Garage:
Bar Fedora:
Bigelow Pharmacy:
And finally, one of my first favorite places in the city. My first apartment in New York was a 150 square foot sublet at the corner of 9th street and 5th avenue (in the old 5th Avenue Hotel). I lived there for two months one summer, and regularly fantasized about living around the corner in Washington Mews. At this point though, NYU has completely absorbed it. But it’s still overwhelmingly pretty. Here’s the entrance.
03/8/2011
Most of the time I walk around my neighborhood, I’m looking at my feet or in front of me, to make sure I don’t step on something unpleasant or walk into someone, but sometimes it’s nice to look up, because we’ve got some beautiful buildings. I particularly love this row of rooftops.
02/17/2011
The weather had warmed up a bit last week, but it was combined with some rain, so today was truly the first nice day. And everyone knew it. Random people smiling at each other on the street (none of whom I got photos of), and people just generally, and obviously, enjoying being outside. So I spent the afternoon wandering the upper west side with my super-telephoto zoom (70-300) lens, and tried to pick up some of the details without getting noticed.
In this batch is an assortment of random people enjoying the outdoors, storefronts, flowers, a variety of signs, water towers, fallout shelters, rooftops and random architectural details from around the upper west side.
As always, click on the thumbnail to enlarge.
02/9/2011
No real description. I was just crossing 5th Avenue last night and thought this would make a good, gritty picture.
02/7/2011
I swear, I’m not going to turn this into a hipstamatic triptych blog, but I probably have a few more of these to get out of my system before I move away from the theme.
This is the “old” part of the American Museum of Natural History, in triplicate. Just sort of lends itself to the aging that the app provides.
