Avenue A Sunset

Green lights heading down Avenue A towards a beautiful Christmas Day sunset. Avenue A at E. 14th Street, Stuyvesant Town / East Village, Manhattan [NEX6-2501 acr(R)PScc]

Gas Station Turned Cafe

This corner is a former Gulf gas station which was converted to an indoor cafe (back portion of the building) with a walled-in open air seating patio at the front, where the gas pumps had been. B Bar and Grill Cafe - East Village at Cooper Square, Manhattan. [NEX6-2407 acr(R)PScc]

3rd Ave / Cooper Square

Streetscape at 3rd Avenue near Cooper Square. The building with the angled / curved / carved out facade is the new Cooper Union building. The taller building beyond that is The Standard Hotel East Village (formerly the Cooper Square Hotel) [NEX6-0827 acr(R)PScc]

51 Astor

Lines, angles, reflections - Closeup of the facade at 51 Astor - new construction at 3rd Ave & Astor Place

LES Roof - 0167

Closeup of a Lower East Side rooftop on East Houston Street near Avenue B / Clinton Street

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.

Lower East Side - Midtown View

Looking north from Corlears Hook over Lower East Side NYCHA apartments (foreground) towards midtown Manhattan

Midtown Peek

Peek at the Empire State Building and the midtown skyline between two Lower East Side apartment towers

Bad Pussies

Mural at E 3rd Street & Avenue B, East Village

Industry & Nature

This weekend I walkd thru the newly refurbished East River Park. At its northern end, the park environment (and new landscaping) abruptly turns industrial thanks to the neighboring Consolidated Edison (Con Ed) power plant. I came across these two scenes with contrasting elements of both environments

Fill 'er Up!

One of the hardest-to-find things in Manhattan - a gas station!

Monuments to Robert Moses

Public Housing built by Robert Moses in the 40s-50s. In the foreground are Bernard Baruch Houses, followed by Lilian Wald Houses and Jacob Riis Houses (all NYCHA).

Stuy Town View Revisited

I posted a photo of a similar view back in January of this year. I was back here this weekend celebrating Thanksgiving. This time the weather was not as gloomy, and the lighting was better. I also added some HDR processing this time, using multiple exposures. Taken through a friend's window in Stuyvesant Town, looking south towards the part of the East Village known as Alphabet City.

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The combination to the lock on the gate? Or, a reference to Lost? - at 2nd Ave near E. 14th Street.

East Houston Street

East Houston Street, still cleared of all traffic and parked cars for President Obama's motorcade last evening.

Stuy Town View

Looking through Stuyvesant Town towards Alphabet City / East Village

Graffiti Magnets

The City Council just voted to ban solid, roll-down gates (like on these Avenue A storefronts). One of the reasons cited for the ban is the graffiti that tends to show up on these gates almost as soon as they're installed.

There's never a taxi when you need one...

I was passing on the bus and couldn't see if this is a taxi stand of if these 3 taxis were parked here just by coincidence.

Element

Element and The Vault at Element on E. Houston & Essex Streets. I pass this on the bus frequently and always admire the lighting on this old bank building. This time the bus stopped at the corner long enough for me to grab this shot from the window.