Brick Red – Above, PS1 at 21st St. & 46th Ave. in Long Island City. Below, the Puck Building at Mulberry & Jersey Sts...
Kips Bay Towers – At 1st Ave. & 30th St. Built in the brutalist style in 1965, but nowhere near as brutal as the plastic boxes ...
Top 'o the Woolworth – Likely the clearest picture I will ever take of the Woolworth Building...
Looking Up – Above, downtown on Beaver St. near Broadway, a statue looks right at home in the rooftop clutter. Below left, on ...
Bright Day Helmsley Building – The rest of the building looks a little unreal because of the light, but the top, above, looks unreal because it's ...
Hazy Day Helmsley Building – Above and below, Helmsley Building bulls from Vanderbilt Ave. on a hazy day. Under a little more light to the left, ...
Angles – Top down: Hudson Hotel on 58th St., Baruch College on 21st St...
Liberty Tower Light – Back at Liberty Tower at, Liberty & Nassau Sts...
Bennett Building – The Bennett Building at Ann & Nassau Sts., "perhaps the tallest cast-iron building in the world...
E 27th St. off 5th Ave. – Giant glowing things drip down the Gershwin Hotel. While the middle of the block bathes in light, below...
William St. & Maiden Lane 3 – Back at the castle-like Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In a better world it would have a dungeon, full of bankers ...
William St. & Maiden Lane 2 – Back around William & Maiden downtown, near the poison wellspring of high finance. The tall building centered...
North from 3rd & 21st – The view north from 3rd Ave. near 21st St. The church tower belongs to Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church on 22nd ...
48th St. Ladders – Still no time, but still a backlog of photos. Above and below right, four ladders climb the face of 48 West 48th ...
American Standard – The American Standard Building on 40th St., overlooking Bryant Park. Summertime from the west above (with the Setai II...
William St. & Maiden Lane 1 – Above, looking south on William St. from near Maiden Lane, the "yellow jacket building," also clearly visible in this ...
Good Looking Garage – It's at 64 E 11th St. I couldn't find out what it used to be, but I did notice it has a near double (with intact ...
Chrysler Building – Above and left, different days from 2nd Ave. & 33rd St. Below, a few blocks down Lexington...
Calvary Baptist Church – On 57th St. between 6th & 7th Aves., dedicated in 1931, it's a skyscraper church with a crusader castle bell tower.&...
Waldorf-Astoria 2 – Note the tiny men on the scaffolding above. I see just one on the lower platform below...
Waldorf-Astoria 1 – I had no idea the Waldorf has its own Grand Central train platform, with an elevator big enough for FDR's car...
Not Shiny Enough – After all the hype about showcasing the original structure of 15 Union Square West, full-frontal below left, sure ...
1400/1410 Broadway 1 – Left: 1410 in reflected light. Right: The Empire State's spire over 1400's shoulder I've featured 1400 Broadway ...
29 W 57th St. – Formerly Chickering Hall, it was built in 1924 by a piano company. It looks like the headquarters for a secret society...
8th Ave. Pizza – One dead and one living pizza joint on 8th Ave. Above and below left, at 46th St., an 1881 Victorian building ...
Sheraton New York – The Sheraton New York at 7th Ave. & 53rd St. has grown on me over the years. Maybe it's the bee stripes, and that...
Grace Church – Above, the wet face of the Grace Church complex at 4th Ave. & 11th St. It's not bad dry either, as it is below ...
Captain's Cabin – Continuing the nautical theme... Three galleon captain's cabins stick out the front of the New York Yacht Club at 37 ...
722 Broadway – Near Washington Place. Designed by Francis A. Minuth and built 1896-96...
St. Regis 3 – More of the St. Regis on 55th St. at 5th Ave., before they resurfaced its face. As you can see to the left, its color...
Judson Memorial Church – Three angles on the front of Jusdon Memorial Church on Washington Square...
More on Madison – Above and below, two angles on the front door steeple of the Remsen Building on Madison Ave. Meanwhile the sign on the...
One Madison Pencil Dick – Angled building photos, like the one to the left, of 105 Madison Ave., seem perfectly natural to me. Frontal shots -- ...
Guilford Light – The Guilford at Lexington and 46th St. Morning light angles off the 46th St. face above and below left; reflected...
From Brooklyn Bridge 2 – A few more shots from the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. Above and below right, around the Gehry tower. ...
Crown Building Crown – The gold trimmed roof of the Crown Building at 5th Ave. and 57th St. The building was MoMA's first home, and was ...
The Emmit Building – It's at 95 Madison Ave., at 29th St. The building is loaded with statuary; restoration work was done by Walter B...
Wanamaker Store Annex 3 – A final display of the many moods -- slick and shiny, sugary, or somewhere in between -- of the surface of the ...
Surrogate's Courthouse 2 – Earlier, statues like new teeth buried in braces Just above, the scaffolding's come down and, after their whitening, ...
St. Bart's 2 – Details on the Park Ave. face of St. Bart's Church at 51st St. [ St. Bart's 1...
St. Bart's 1 – Angel flying into heavy (vine) weather St. Bartholomew's Church at Park Ave. & 51st St. [ St. Bart's 2 ] This...
NY Man Gutted – Journalism 101: Never, ever pass up a catchy headline! Not a minute after NY Man (on 34th St. near 8th Ave.) was ...
13th & Broadway Corner Tower – On the Roosevelt Building (1893). From a block east on 13th, above left, it looks like a rocket designed by a ...
Fire Escapes – A few that caught my eye. Bright, fuzzy and graffitied above, on 55th St. off Park Ave. Sharp and refined ...
Three Details – 902 Broadway, near 20th St. 411 5th Ave., again The Hellmuth Building on 18th St. near 7th Ave...
Liberty Tower – No, this is not Freedom Tower, now 1 World Trade Center... This is Liberty Tower at Liberty & Nassau downtown. ...
Three Sights – Pink sheet construction, Northern Blvd. at Queens Plaza Summer shade, Rockefeller Center Mountainous facade at 17th & ...
Freezing Eagles – Above and to the left, on 5th Ave. looking west down 26th St., past the Croisic Building's corner eagle toward the St...
U.S. Realty Building – A well-lit morning brings out the best in the Trinity Place face of the U.S. Realty Building, downtown at Thames St.&...
7th Ave. Windows – At 566 7th Ave., above 40th St., in between the crowds of headless dress forms inside -- abandoned, or placed to make ...
7th Ave. Details – Above, some exotic types (smoke stuff, play music, and hunt?) a few floors up on 550 7th Ave., at 39th St. ...
Cold Comfort Saints – Above and just below, frigid figures on St. Thomas' Church on 5th Ave. at 53rd St. Below, looking warmer in spite of ...
Alwyn Court Detail – Alwyn Court detail revealed by Christmas morning's even light. Note the pine cones and ornaments at the bottom, ...
St. Regis Surface – The front of the St. Regis, on 55th St. at 5th Ave., from before recent work started. I assume the crew, which is...
5th Ave & 54th St – Above, the southwest corner of the top of the Peninsula Hotel, from 54th St. west of 5th Ave. Below left, above ...
Smoked Buildings – A few smoky sides that caught my eye. The smoke or stain in the upper right fits right in with the golden ...
Scaffold Light – The surface of this building at the southwest corner of Broadway & 12th St. is just dirty enough to have defeated my ...
Siegel-Cooper 2 – At 6th Ave. and 18th St. again, on a darker day. Below left, a closeup of the face above. Below right, the ...
Siegel-Cooper 1 – At 6th Ave. and 18th St., the building that now houses Bed Bath & Beyond and budget stores was originally the Siegel-...
Beekman View – Frank Gehry's Beekman Tower posed like a Halloween ghost above; bound angels closeup below. [ Earlier Tower 1 ] [ ...
Brooklyn Bridge View 2 – From near the Manhattan end. The top of the Woolworth Building above; its midsection below, on the right...
Odd West 29th Stone – Odd stone on a frumpy castle at 214 29th St., between 7th & 8th Aves. It crossed my mind it might be faux stone, ...
St. Thomas Church Statues – Unlike a lot of buildings (and churches) around New York, every slot on the face of St. Thomas Church (5th Ave. & 53rd ...
Old Smoky 8th & 37th – Maybe it's steam not smoke, but "old smoky" sounds more mountain-like, and 550 8th Ave. is a mountain of a building, at...
Potter's Red, Park Row – The very red Potter Building at 38 Park Row, across from City Hall. Even the "plain part," below right, is rich ...
Heads Out on 5th Ave – Figures stick their heads out of 411 5th Ave., at 37th St...
Warped in Fact – Above and below left, the impressive Starrett-Lehigh Building at 11th Ave. & 26th St. Built in 1931, it had ...
Wanamaker Store Annex 2 – Different day, different light, different skin at Wanamaker Annex (home of the Astor Place Kmart). I'd like to ...
Oddly Handsome 1441 Broadway – I spent a ridiculous amount of time on photos of this building -- built in 1929 at 41st & Broadway -- and wound up with...
Wanamaker Store Annex 1 – Some photos of the Wanamaker Store Annex, which takes up a full block between Broadway & Lafayette and 8th & 9th Sts., ...
Up from Broadway – A few recent favorites seen from on or near Broadway. Above and left, the golden dome of the New York Life ...
8th Ave Light – A sign eclipse plus a wall of reflected light, caught last week at 8th Ave. & 46th St. That's the Paramount ...
Lexington Light – Looking like a cliff face on a bright day out west, 525 Lexington, at 49th St. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' ...
NYU Waverly Construction 2 – Under bright light again, the detail looks like factory fresh pasta. I don't think it's just the fresh material that ...
NYU Waverly Construction 1 – In contrast to the brick shoebox dumps NYU builds to stockpile students, it retains the beautiful facades of three ...
Raking Down Waverly Place – Raking morning light, that is. Even the plain buildings, like below left, got in on the act, throwing shadows ...
Park Central Hotel – At 7th Ave & 55th St. Built in the late 1920s, I think the odd updates -- the modern metal panels and windows -- ...
7 WTC's Clear Complexion 2 – Above, 7 WTC from the Manhattan Bridge on a foggy day. Left, from 6th Ave. in the Village, a 7 WTC wannabe (the "Trump...
7 WTC's Clear Complexion 1 – The surface and detail of a building can affect viewers in the same visceral way size and shape do. So even a ...
Grand Central Sights – Finally stopping to take a look at a few things at Grand Central Terminal... Above and left, statues naked in the snow...
Headless Hotel – Update: If I wasn't so lazy I'd have found that this was the original home of Life Magazine. The now naked top ...
7th Ave Cornice – There's something sick about a building that's had its cornice amputated, like the one to the left, at 2nd Ave. & 6th ...
Warren Building – Here's the Warren Building [NYT via NY Songlines] at Broadway & 20th. Designed by Stanford White and built in 1891, it...
Bowery Savings Bank – On Grand between Bowery and Elizabeth, the Bowery Savings Bank was designed by Standford White and went up in 1893.&...
Gold & White Light – For a moment light turned the brick surface of this building -- on 33rd just west of 5th -- to metal. There's ...
Morality & Building Beauty Shots – Lost City's Brooks of Sheffield asked a good question about yesterday's post (image right), and since I burned some ...
Lemon Light on 8th St – On 8th St. between Broadway and University Place. Normally pedestrian, when strong light rakes across the ...
Details Details 2 – On the face of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, above, artist and model casually hold up the roof and the divine clones ...
Surrogate's Courthouse – This already attractive building, at Chambers & Centre across from City Hall Park, gets its teeth whitened. Surrogate'...
Crusty 58th Street – Above and below left, the crusty cake decoration of the Alwyn Court at 7th Ave. And below right, near Broadway, ...
Beekman Bondage Angels – Angels in bondage at 150 Nassau, strapped on to ride out the construction of Frank Gehry's twisted Beekman Tower, ...
Details Details – Some building details I've noticed lately. Above left, the Global Franchise Snake on the former Barnes & Noble, ...
Indian Mission – Yet another building I hadn't noticed, here's the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, on 43rd off 2nd Ave...
Downtown Optical – A nice optical building face at 42 Broadway, way downtown. The photos came out soft and nearly monochrome, which ...
Union Building, Union Square – The Union Building is one of my favorites, at 14th & Broadway on Union Square. I didn't like a single one of ...
Trump Parc Cornrow Roof – The Trump Parc, seen here from 58th near 6th Ave., was built in 1930 as the Barbizon Plaza Hotel; it's now condos. ...
Down Broadway – On Broadway between 12th & 13th, just below Union Square. Above, looking up towards the columns of 840 Broadway (...
Ornate Facades – A few ornate facades I've had laying around for way too long. Above and left, fragments of the face of the Wolcott on ...
Concrete Drawing – From back in the day when builders had respect for those who have to look at their products, the building at Park Ave. ...
Alwyn Court – Above, the Alwyn Court at 58th and 7th. After it was built in 1910, Architecture magazine said that "...[while ...
Unique Physiques – Two extremes in building body sculpting. Above, the dead-airspace side of a building -- next to the Ziegfeld ...
Herald Towers – Here are the triple towers of Herald Towers, above Herald Square. I took the photos over the past year-plus. I ...
Broadway Toy Facade – Again, in the right place at the right time to catch the light. Picture-wise, the yellow and white front is close to ...
Optical Facades – A few good facades. Above and left, at 11th and Broadway. Below, somewhere on 5th Ave. in Midtown, I ...
Light Unlocks – I love it when I find myself in a spot where light unlocks the surface of the city. Above, a remarkable combination of...
Faces of New York – Building faces, that is. Some buildings have really good skin, and when the light is right they give off a warmth...
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