ATM on Essex Street.

Upper half of an interesting building in SoHo - houses the Angelika Film Center on the first few floors.

New apartment building (lower floors wrapped in black safety netting) rising at the site of the former Gertel's Bakery on Hester Street, near Essex St., Lower East Side.

The rooftops of NYC are full of surprises. From street level, one would not know that there's a playground on this Lower East Side rooftop.

Williamsburg Bridge approach on the Manhattan side, looking towards Delancey Street.

The SubMan at Grand & Essex Streets

Sculpture of traffic & street signs above the retail stores at Red Square on E. Houston Street

21st Century version of the corner newstand... more and more of these boxes are popping up on more and more corners... this one is in SoHo

Peace to the World! Saint Anthony of Padua Church on West Houston Street

I'll never understand the addiction to eating outdoors that many New Yorkers (many of my friends included) seem to have. I mean, these streets are not the Champs-Élysées. There's garbage less than 20 feet away and stop-and-go traffic about 10 feet away. I just don't get it. Photo taken thru the window of taxi caught in stop-and-go traffic.

A cool fountain on a hot (finally) day at the Stuyvesant Town Oval