Catching Up... Snow - Snow - Snow

I know it's crazy to be posting photos of snow and ice in September - but I've got some catching up to do, starting with photos of some of the 57.4" of snow that NYC got this past winter. I think this was the 5th highest snow total for NYC over the past 145 years!

Snow - Branches - Ginkgo  

Lower East Side, Manhattan.  2014-Feb-3
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Ice - Branches - Ginkgo

Lower East Side, Manhattan. 2014-Feb-4
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Snowy Branches

Lower East Side, Manhattan. 2014-Feb-3
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 Samuel Dickstein Place

Lower East Side, Manhattan.  2014-Feb-4
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 Togo - at Seward Park

Togo seems right at home in the snow at Seward Park. The real Togo was was a sled dog who led a team pulling medication across snowy Alaska to fight a diphtheria outbreak in the early 1900s. The sculpture was designed by Shelly Smith Curtiss.
Lower East Side, Manhattan. 2014-Feb-8
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Foggy Grand Street

A heavy fog rolled into Manhattan last night. Grand Street, Lower East Side.

Filming The Cobbler

Light crane on Suffolk Street during filming of The Cobbler (starring Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman). Seen from Grand Street near Clinton Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan

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Foggy East River

An overcast, foggy day along the East River. Downtown / DUMBO, Brooklyn across the river. Lower East Side, Manhattan on this side of the river. [NEX6-2344 acr(R)PScc]

Litowisker - Masaryk

Litowisker Synagogue (foreground) and Masaryk Towers apartments (background) at Columbia and Delancey Streets, Lower East Side, Manhattan
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Corlears Hook / Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn

Corlears Hook (Lower East Side) across the East River from South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The office buildings in the background are in the City Hall / Civic Center area. And, of course, the tallest building is the new One World Trade Center. [NEX6-1463 acr(R)PScc]

Corlears Hook / FDR Drive

This is the FDR Drive at Grand Street, just before it curves around Corlears Hook and heads towards South Ferry. The layer of clouds passing overhead was too good to pass up. This is one of the first photos I took while testing my new NEX camera. So far I've been pleased with the results I'm getting. I'm even more happy that it doesn't break my back carrying it plus a lens or two... a huge difference between this and the larger, heavier Canon gear that resulted in back, neck & shoulder pain and numbness in my hand whenever I carried it.

Lower East Side - Upper East Side

Baruch, Riis, and Wald houses and ConEd smokestacks in the foreground... Upper East Side / 59th Street Bridge in the background. From Lower East Side, Manhattan

LES Roof - 0167

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

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.

CitiBike - Bike Share

The new CitiBike bike share service is now operational in Manhattan south of 59th Street. Annual, weekly and daily users pay a flat fee and have unlimited (but timed) use of the bicycles (30 minutes for weekly & daily users, 45 minutes for annual members). The bicycle must be returned to any station within the alloted time - but can be taken out again almost immediately to continue on to another destination. This is the station at Henry Street & Grand Street, Lower East Side prior to the launch.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

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

Kozy Korner at Night

This is the corner that most Lower East Siders know as Cozy Corner - where Grand, Madison and Lewis Streets meet up. Lower East Side, Manhattan

I'm testing Canon's new G15 camera, which I hope will complement my G1X in those situations where I need a faster lens and faster focus. I do a lot of shooting from moving taxis/car service and buses. I find, in too many cases, where the G1X auto-focus is too slow to grab a shot before the car or bus moves on. Also, while the G1X has superb image quality in low light, it's slow lens often requires a slow shutter speed. Between my aging/shaking hands and my aversion to carrying a tripod, this often results in wonderfully exposed but blurred photos. I'm hoping the G15 will fill in the gap in these situations

Last year I switched from using a T3i dSLR to the G1X because back problems made it painful and difficult for me to carry around the dSLR and lenses (which is also why I don't carry a tripod). I absolutely LOVE the results I've been getting with the G1X most cases. The addition of the G15 should help with the rest.

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

TTW - Popeye on Houston Street

The latest work at the Bowery Mural - Popeye by Crash (John Matos). Houston Street at Bowery, Manhattan. Taken thru a tinted taxi window.

TTW - Avalon Reflections

Reflections in the windows at the Avalon Chrystie apartment building, Houston Street, Lower East Side, Manhatta. Taken through the window of a NYC M21 bus

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