The Willy-B

Closeup of the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge. That's a steep incline on footpath on this side. My grandmother is said to have walked across this bridge in a hurricane once back in the '50s.

St. George Ukrainian

The front of St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in the East Village

Tracks

Courthouse Square elevated subway station on the 7 line in Long Island City. I'm glad I don't live in that apartment building just beyond the station. It must be quite noisy. But, OTOH, if cable TV service were to go out, I could just bring a lawn chair up to the roof and watch the giant Fresh Direct electronic billboard a few blocks away:-)

Soy Joy

Painting a billboard at Ave A and E. 6th Street

Roebling's View

This is about as close as I could get to capturing the view that Washington Roebling must have had from his house at 110 Columbia Heights (Brooklyn). He oversaw construction of the Brooklyn Bridge as Chief Engineer and monitored the progress from his window while confined to his house due to illness. He would have been about 4 floors higher than this vantage point and none of the buildings in today's photo would have been there in the late 1880s. I'm reading The Great Bridge, by David McCullough - about the construction of the bridge. It's an amazing story!

I'm told the land being cleared in the foreground will be part of a new waterfront park called Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Night Pizza

Essex Street Market at the corner of Essex & Delancey Streets - taken from an open bus window. Testing the "pro-light" feature on the Fuji F70EXR.... ISO 1600... Not bad for a pocket camera.

Wash Me

Writing (?) on the wall at the Canal Street subway station

RFK Bridge

Queens approach to the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triborough Bridge) taken from the elevated subway station at Astoria Boulevard.

iPod Touch

iPod Touch billboard near the Brooklyn waterfront

Smokestacks

Smokestacks at the Con Edison power plant in Astoria, Queens.

The Wall

The Wall - a sculpture by Forrest Myers at Broadway & West Houston Street... aluminum bars attached to aluminum braces.

Union Square Crane

Window work at Union Square West

Hot Taxi

1950 Studebaker taxi outside the Caliente Cab Co. restaurant at Bleecker Street

Blue: Then and Now

3 for 1: Blue under construction and today. First photo: Canon Rebel XT (early 2006); 2nd Photo: Fuji F30 (late 2006); 3rd Photo: Fuji F200EXR (Sep 2009)

Enjoying the afternoon outdoors, complete with flat-screen TV

Reflected sky

St. Mary's Church on Grand Street

FDNY trucks responding to a gas leak last night.

Neon

Hidden water tank