NYC Rooftop Roundup Royale

Above, a Dumbo rooftop from the Brooklyn Bridge.  Just below l-r: (1) 1st Ave. & 19th St., (2) McGuinness Blvd. in Greenpoint, (3) 2nd Ave. in the 70s.



Just above l-r: (1) 7th Ave. & 18th St., (2) west from Park Ave. So. & 35th St., (3) 57th St. near 11th Ave., (4) east from 11th Ave. above 30th St.


Just above l-r: (1 & 2) above Washington Pl. & Greene St., (3) a Google satellite shot of that (1 & 2) rooftop, (4) University Pl. & 9th St. from Greene St.  Finally below, at Franklin & N 15th Sts. in Greenpoint, a metal middle-finger rooftop.

Grand Central to Herald Square

Above, glare bounces off a rooftop west of Grand Central on 42nd St.  Below, first-light seeps into Herald Square.

Architectural Hardware

A few cases where functional hardware is a design element.  An obvious one, above, is the pint sized chemical plant on top of the Penn Station LIRR entrance on 34th St.  Left, an apparently permanent crane (like a windshield wiper) at 18th St. & 7th Ave.

Below left, on Allen St. near Rivington, ventilation pipes for the place next door -- so its exhaust doesn't foul the cheesy stallion medallion on the new hulk?  Below right, on 23rd St. off 3rd Ave., some proudly exposed pipe.


Below left, a headband of small HVAC units above Lexington Ave. in the upper 20s; below right, one big HVAC perched like a tiny head on a robot at Purves & Jackson in Long Island City.


And below, one of my favorite pieces of hardware headgear -- at once functional, futuristic, and vaguely fascist -- on Warehouse 11 in Williamsburg.

Rolls Royce Car Wash

Another yellow car one story closer to heaven, on top of the car wash / repair shop at Union Ave. & Meserole St. in Williamsburg.  This junker is a Rolls Royce, which reminds me that the soundtrack to one of my favorite stupid movies, Car Wash, was done by Rose Royce.