9th Ave. & 42nd St.

Plenty of red, yellow & blue...


...near the Port Authority, past the blasted flag below left.

William St. & Maiden Lane 2

Back around William & Maiden downtown, near the poison wellspring of high finance.  The tall building centered above is the American International Building, which was owned by scumbag Wall St. enabler AIG before it collapsed.  When new, the building sported double-decker elevators that served two floors at once.  Of course the top floors of the building are now being turned into luxury condos.


The castle below the tower above left and below is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; the nicely lit white building above right is 80 Maiden Lane.

Bryant Park Ice Fountain

A week ago at Bryant Park.

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 St.  Below left, earlier, some exhaust.

Favorite Photos 2011 2

Judson Memorial Church	8th Ave. & 31st St.
Alwyn Court	5th Ave. & 26th St.
Woolworth Building	Municipal Building
6th Ave. & 37th St.	Times Square

The rest of my favorites for 2011; click thumbnails for larger images.  Maybe first among favorites for me is "8th Ave. & 31st St." with the water tank Burger King crown and the tiny old man airing himself out on the fire escape.

Favorite Photos 2011 1

Last Supper Floor Show	Newtown Creek
Snow Flower	New York Life Building
51st Ave. & 23rd St., LIC	51st Ave. & 23rd St., LIC
Surrogate's Courthouse	Above the Clouds

Half of my favorites from Restless over the past year; second half tomorrow.  As always, click thumbnails for larger images.

Van Cleef & Arpels Windows

Not a jewel in sight at the corner of 5th Ave. & 57th St., though I'd guess the huge, furry beast below left is well strung.


Silhouette meets shadow play above right, while below... a vampire ball in an ice palace?

Bergdorf 2011 Holiday Windows

White haired women dominate these windows at Bergdorf Goodman's 5th Ave. store.  Above, I didn't even try to fit the giraffe on the right into the shot.  Below left, a snow white 'fro scares the horses.


Above right, ballroom birds pose in front of winged-reindeer wallpaper.  And below, a white haired spectator admires a stuffed, brassy window.

Bloomberg & Occupy Wall St.

A laughable quandary: Demonstrators Test Mayor, a Backer of Wall St. and Free Speech.

The mayor wonders "...why don't you [Occupy Wall Street] get out there and try to do something about the things that you don't like, create the jobs that we are lacking, rather than just yell and scream?"

He's unaware, because of the billions clogging his empathy gland, that not everyone is a member of the divine Job Creator class he belongs to. 

He figures he's engineered the perfect NYC, where anyone with initiative is worth millions, and where the rest of us should be content to Occupy Ourselves with the corporate morphine dripping out of iPhones and advertising as we underbid each other for the honor of running errands for the rich.

The mayor's done everything he can to make the city dependent on and servile to his Wall Street / 1% cohort, which has drowned the power of all speech but its own and turned democracy into a joke by purchasing the political process (see Oligarchy, American Style).

A few years after our banker-inflicted crisis, the world economy is still hostage to hidden dependencies buried in the shadow system built by Wall Street "innovation," with 29 global banks deemed 'too big to fail' and with a distant collapse bound to have side effects here (see Sad Proof of Europe’s Fallout).

But nothing's been done about personal debt, employment, or the next brewing crisis, and we can't do a thing about it through the political process because nowadays, thanks to people like Bloomberg, meaningful citizenship is restricted to the 1%, and its money chokes out any form of life that does not serve it.

American Standard

The American Standard Building on 40th St., overlooking Bryant Park.

Summertime from the west above (with the Setai II behind it), street level to the left, two sides of the top just below, and wintertime from the east at the bottom.