NYC Water Tank Tidal Wave

Pairs, twins and trios.  Above, on 2nd Ave. at 12th St.  Below l-r: (1) near Broadway & 28th St., (2) screened twins at 1st Ave. & 3rd St., (3) 8th Ave. & 47th St., (4) between the Empire State and 11th Ave. in the 30s.


Just below l-r: (1) twin pairs on 40th St. over Bryant Park, (2) Union Square East & 17th St., (3) 8th Ave. & 40th St., (4) 34th St. off 7th Ave.; note nice roof-black shack.



Just above l-r: (1) 29th St. off Broadway, (2) looking south from 6th Ave. & Spring St., (3) 8th Ave. & 40th St., (4) atop the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, from 10th Ave. & 31st St.  Below, twins at 8th Ave. & 32nd St.

[NYC Water Tank Tidal Wave 2]

NYC Scaffold Spectacular

Above, Greene St. & Washington Pl.  Just below l-r: (1) 5th Ave. & 11th St., (2) Lexington Ave. & 71st St., (3) Upper West Side from the bottom of Central Park.  Further below l-r: (1) the Sheraton at 52nd St. near 7th Ave., (2) next to the Puck Building at Jersey & Mulberry Sts., (3) 7th Ave. & 18th St., (4) 6th Ave. & 13th St.




Just above l-r: (1) 57th St. between 2nd & 3rd Aves., (2) Roebling & N 11th Sts. in Williamsburg, (3) Seton Shrine on State St.  Below, 10th Ave. at 23rd St.

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.

Tall Water Tanks

Just plain tall, or raised to pump up the force of gravity.  Above left, on Greene St. off 8th St.; above right, on 37th St. west of 8th Ave.


Above left, from Lafayette & Bond Sts.; above right, at 60th St. & Broadway.


Above left, somewhere down Lafayette; above right, from Madison Ave. & 23rd St.  And finally, below, a new tank east of Union Square, backed by the top of the Con Ed building on 14th St.