TTW - The Cable Building

Taken thru a tinted taxi window - I've passed this building hundreds of times but never noticed this until getting stuck in traffic here yesterday. The Cable Building was built in the 1890s to house the generator plant which powered the cable cars that ran on Broadway at the time. Broadway & Houston Street, Manhattan.

TTW - Willow Steam Plant

Taken thru a hotel window (not the cleanest, either) in Philadelphia.... While playing with the zoom on my camera I saw this interesting building in the distance. It turns out to be an abandoned steam plant at 9th Street & Willow Street. I'm still trying to learn how to get "clean" shots at long focal lengths with this camera and I really should have used a tripod for this. Also lots of distance compression due to the long zoom. The zoom for this photo is the equivalent of about 440mm

Tetris-like Facadescape

I zoomed in on the downtown Manhattan skyline from high above the Lower East Side, panning from side to side looking for something interesting. This group of buildings made me think of Tetris blocks fitting together and wrapping around each other.

Domino Tanks

Closeup of the rusted tanks at the abandoned Domino Sugar plant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Seen from across the river at East River Park, Lower East Side, Manhattan

St. Mary's - Blue

Blue condo on Delancey Street between the twin steeples of Saint Mary's Church on Grand Street. Lower East Side, Manhattan

TTW - Avalon in Avalon

Through the Window -- Avalon Chrystie apartments reflected in the windows of Avalon Bowery apartments across E. Houston Street. Taken through the window of a Houston Street crosstown bus near the Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan.

RED, YELLOW, and BLUE

RED, YELLOW and BLUE by Orly Genger - sculptures of layered rope. Madison Square Park, Flatiron District, Manhattan

1WTC Super Close

I dragged my T3i out for the first time in months and grabbed a close up from one of my usual Lower East Side vantage points using a long lens. The spire is still not topped off - this past Monday's top-off was postponed due to inclement weather. I haven't read anything official yet but the rumor is  that the remainder of the spire might be installed later today. I'll be watching for it!

Cooper - Astor - Union

Streetscape at Cooper Square, looking north past Astor Place towards Union Square. A wide variety of building styles, sizes, colors.

The red-brick buildings lit by late afternoon sun at the center are two of the 4 towers that were originally known as Zeckendorf Towers. Today they are known by two other names: 1 Irving Place and 1 Union Square East (but they'll always be Zeckendorf Towers to me). Peeking from behind those towers is the top of the Empire State Building further uptown at E. 34th Street.

Cooper Square Hotel

Close up of the facade of one of the modern buildings recently constructed in the Cooper Square area of Manhattan.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

A message on a wall on The Bowery near Rivington Street, Manhattan

Baruch - Williamsburg North

Contrast of 50's era public housing to new luxury apartment towers. The public housing, just behind the Williamsburg Bridge approach road in the foregroud, is NYCHA's Baruch Houses, Lower East Side, Manhattan. The new towers in the distance are Northside Piers and The Edge, across the river in the northern end of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Williamsburg Bridge carries vehicular and subway traffic plus pedestrians and cyclists between the Lower East Side and Williamsburg.

TTW - Willy-B

The Manhattan tower of the Williamsburg Bridge around sunset, taken thru a tinted taxi window. from FDR Drive at Delancey Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan

WTC Cranes

Construction cranes at the World Trade Center site.

New One World Trade Center Up Close

The new 1WTC building exterior is coming along nicely with siding installed almost all the way to the top. The huge spire up above is also well underway. Yesterday, the local news channels previewed the new 3-story observation center at the top of the building that will offer panoramic views when it opens in 2015.

Silver Reflection

Windows at Silver Towers reflected in a window across the street - at the border of Noho / Soho on W. Houston Street, NYC.

No Entry

Taken thru the plastic window of a NYC bus. Subway exit and entrance at the Delancey Street / Essex Street station outside the south building of the Essex Street Market

Essex Street - 1WTC

The back of Seward Park High School (left foreground) on Essex Street and One World Trade Center in the background. Seen from the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), Lower East Side, Manhattan

1WTC Progress

The siding is almost all the way up the side of the new One World Trade Center building and the spire is partially constructed up on top. To the left of 1WTC in the distance is the top of the Municipal Building and the Woolworth Building. Seen from Henry Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan.

Manhattan Bridge Peek

A peek at the Brooklyn end of the Manhattan Bridge between some Lower East Side apartment towers on a dreary, overcast day.