Rooftop Graffiti

Rooftops decorated with graffiti in the Two Bridges area of the Lower East Side - seen from the Manhattan Bridge.

World Financial Center Reflections

The glass facades at World Financial center (across from the World Trade Center site) create some interesting reflections and angles. World Financial Center, Manhattan.

East Broadway - FiDi Skyline

HDR photo from February of this year - looking out over a block of Lower East Side tenements towards the skyscrapers in the Financial District. Many of these old buildings are slowly disappearing as the LES gentrifies and owners replace tenements with new, taller buildings. This view will likely be different in a few years. One of the larger (double-width) tenements on this block was torn down two years ago to make room for a hi-rise building but apparently the funds ran out and all that remains is an empty lot - for now.

Smeller Modus

Rooftop graffiti on a Lower East Side building - from April. Lower East Side, Manhattan.

Chrysler-MetLife-Tudor City

Manhattan's east-midtown skyline seen from the East River and featuring the Chrysler Building (center), MetLife building to its right (formerly the Pan Am Building) and Tudor City apartments in the foreground

Skyline Wake

Sailing up the East River leaving the downtown Manhattan bridges and skyline in our wake. We call the East River a river but it's not really a river. It's a salt-water tidal strait that connects New York Bay with the Long Island Sound. Both the bay and sound open to the Atlantic Ocean.

The waters of the Atlantic Ocean, New York Bay, East River, and Long Island Sound completely surround the large body of land that Brooklyn, Queens, and "Long Island" sit on. So, technically, Brooklyn & Queens are on the same island as "Long Island."  With Staten Island and Manhattan also being islands, this leaves The Bronx as the only part of NYC which is attached to the U.S. mainland.

Under the El

This was taken underneath the elevated subway tracks in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn (just west of Coney Island) back in May. The shadows and rust on the underside of the structure caught my attention as I was crossing the street.