I used to love driving out to JFK International Airport to watch the planes take off and land. Back in the days before hijackings and terrorist attacks there were even observation decks where visitors could get up close to the action. Today, about the closest you can get to a plane without actually flying somewhere is the AirTrain which loops around JFK's terminals.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

Billboard on Houston St., near Avenue D, from a moving bus...
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Most NYC apartments have no outdoor space and all too often the outdoor space that exists is wasted as storage.
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The trashy side of Stuyvesant Town. What do you do with trash from over 11,000 apartments on a holiday when there is no trash pickup? Dump it on the sidewalks!
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

3-for-1. The first photo below was taken yesterday while cat-sitting for a friend. The low-rise art deco building in the foreground is Amalgamated Dwellings, built around 1930. About 6 hours after this photo was taken, a fire gutted two apartments in the rear. Luckily, nobody was injured and the building suffered no major damage (other than the two gutted apartments). The 2nd photo shows boarded windows after the fire. The 3rd photo shows some of New York's Bravest investigating on the roof this afternoon.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

Subway entrance at 23rd St. & 6th Ave. Using those MetroCard (fare card) machines will soon be sucking more money out of my bank accunt. Fares are going up again.
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I was on a bus heading across 14th Street, trying to snap a photo without trees getting in the way. I suddenly realized how many there were on that block. I spent the rest of the ride home looking down every cross street, and there were trees lining every single street. I guess I never consciously realized how many trees there are in Manhattan. This is 14h Street near 2nd Ave.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

It may not be Saks Fifth Avenue, but, Frank's Bike Shop (a local Lower East Side business) puts on a wonderful Christmas display in their windows every year. This photo really doesn't do the display justice. But, while the photo itself may be unremarkable, it's special to me. It's my first done completely on a Mac (although I must admit that part of the workflow was done in a virtual Windows machine running on the Mac).
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

From this time last year, in the East Village (taken thru a bus window)
Camera: Sony DSC-H5

Reflections in midtown Manhattan
Camera: Canon Rebel XT

Winter wonderland on the Lower East Side
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a little snippet of St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC
Camera: Canon Rebel XT

47th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues in Manhattan is known as the "diamond center"
Camera: Canon Rebel XT

Radio City Music Hall 'tween the giant Christmas ornaments in front of the Exxon Building
Camera: Canon Rebel XT

21 Club on E 52nd Street, decorated for the holidays.
Camera: Canon Rebel XT

The Big Apple's biggest Apple Store opened yesterday at W 14th St & 9th Ave. I stopped in today and almost bought my first Mac.
Camera: Canon Rebel XT

What a difference a day makes. Well, really 2 days. The first photo is from today. The 2nd one is from just 2 days ago.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

World AIDS Day. According to Wikipedia, "World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection." Volunteers at City Hall Park spent the day reading the names of 100,000 people who died of AIDS. But, nobody seemed to be listening.
Camera: Sony DSC-H5

Some of the last remaining leaves in the neighborhood. These trees will probably be bare by Monday.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

The trip home from JFK Int'l Airport took me over the Williamsburg Bridge by subway. This is a photo from the front window of the train, approaching the bridge on the Brooklyn side. The blurry area of the photo is caused by "scratchiti" on the window. The domed building on the left is the former Williamsburg Savings Bank. It's now an HSBC bank branch.
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Still stranded and unable to upload/edit photos. Here's one from about 2 years ago - an altered photo of the subway entrance at the southern end of Times Square, 42nd Street & 7th Ave.

Here's another photo from about a year ago - one of the sculptures at Battery Park City by Tom Otterness. He has quite a few at Battery Park City (at least when I took this photo). But, my favorite one of his is in the subway station at 8th Ave & 14th Street - an alligator crawling out of a manhole cover chomping on a youngster.
Camera: Canon Rebel XT

Stranded, away from my "real" laptop - but, with access to some old photos stored online. Here's a photo from about a year ago on 5th Avenue near Rockefeller Center.
Camera: Canon 350D Rebel XT

Leaving on a Jet Plane - sitting at JetBlue's gate 21 at JFK International Airport, Queens, NYC
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

Ever wonder what's below that layer of asphalt you walk or travel on?
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Some more local fall foliage at the southern end of East River Park
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The skies have been gloomy here since last Thursday. But, more of the trees are changing colors every day. Here's some fall foliage - urban-style - from the courtyard behind my apartment building on the Lower East Side.
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Empire State Building in the distant haze. The building to the left with the gold-colored roof is the New York Life Insurance Building. The red hamster cage in the foreground is the pedestrian path on the Williamsburg Bridge.

2-for-1. Both of these were taken under the Manhattan approach to the Brooklyn Bridge, through a bus window. The first shows what appear to be windows that were bricked over a long time ago. The second, just a few feet to the right, shows autumn colors finally kicking in (very late this year).
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

Looking down Ann Street towards Vesey Street and the new 7 World Trade Center. To date, this is the only building constructed on any part of the former WTC site.
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A taxi cab decorated with decals painted by local school children - part of the Garden in Transit project, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the NYC metered taxi.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

A dreary, rainy, fall day on the Lower East Side
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One of the many stone bridges/underpasses in Central Park.
Camera: Sony DSC-H5

The Unisphere - One of the few remaining icons from the 1964-1965 World's Fair, still standing at Flushing Meadows-Carona Park, Queens, NYC
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ20

This photo was created for a newspaper ad showing an inviting park surrounded by apartment buildings. The layout dictated a square-ish photo. I used 9 separate images, stitched together to get the height and width. This park is on Grand Street, near FDR Drive, on the Lower East Side
Camera: Sony DSC-H5

A sort of watercolor effect. The tallest building (left of center) is Trump World Tower. Appearing to its right in the image is the Secretariat Building of the United Nations.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3 edited w/Painter X and Photoshop CS2

The pond at the southeast corner of Central Park, NYC
Camera: Sony DSC-H5

An interesting contrast between old and new; Lexington Ave around E. 54th Street, NYC
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Some of the earliest "public housing" built in NYC. Vladeck Houses on the Lower East Side.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ20

A Blue wannabe? This is on 3rd Ave at 13th Street, NYC
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Not sure what this is, or why it's there. But, whatever it is, it's standing on the corner of Cedar St. and Broadway, in the financial district, not far from the old World Trade Center site.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3

East Broadway and Montgomery Street, Lower East Side, NYC
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Empire State Building around dusk.
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Tourneau, E. 57th St at Madison Ave, NYC
Camera: Sony DSC-H5

Looking over Seward Park and the Lower East Side/Chinatown
Camera: Sony DSC-H5

Office towers around Citigroup Center, NYC
Camera: Sony DSC-H5