There should have been a ‘before’ photograph. This beautiful old building houses the Public Library on 6th Avenue and 10th Street and it is stunning. Look at the architectural details.
Category Archives: City views
Stand Clear…
The sonorous voice announcement is attention getting. “Stand away from the moving platform”. This warning takes place in the silence of no train being in sight. When the subway train begins to enter the station, then the voice begins again. Watching to see why the platform needs to move: there is a curve in the …
Lego
The Lego store never ceases to amaze. The one at Rockefeller Center is always a mob scene at the holidays. The store in the Flatiron District is sane and quite empty. This is a wall mural in the street side window. Amazing the use of the tiny bricks to make a ‘billboard” type scene.
Treasures in the Trash
This is a must watch. “The second floor of a Department of Sanitation garage in East Harlem is home to thousands of objects New Yorkers have thrown away over the last three decades. The items were found in the trash, but look nothing like garbage. They have been carefully organized and kept by sanitation worker …
Buddhist Temple
The building behind the stoplight and under the sign board, is a temple. Rather unassuming. But there it is, none the less.
No Idea
This sign board has the words, ‘adult swim’ in it, but for the rest, I have no idea to what it refers. This is not the first one.
Clever Signage
The Parking Place
Since moving to the City, I have said more than once, it is a good thing there were men who were busy with public transport, while I was asleep at the wheel. By that I mean, growing up in a car-cultural, I had no insight into the mass value of mass transport. And the City …
Best Food Trucks in the City
Perhaps the only reason to paste and look at this link, is if you are coming to the City and want to have a food truck experience. [If you live in Portland, OR it’s a moot point.] The list includes: ice cream, donuts, steak pies, tacos, middle eastern, pupusas, to name but a few. And …
Outside My Window – part 2
This looks like a ‘panzer wagon’. Wonder if it was for the climate march?