Random Restless

6/13/12

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]

6/11/12

Across WTC & Downtown


Above, looking southeast across the WTC site; that's the US Realty Building in the distance above Tower 2 construction.  Below left, south to the West Street Bldg.


Above right, looking south from the West Side Highway above Battery Park City; the new 1 WTC is on the right.  Below, the pointy American International Building seen across town from near the same spot.


6/6/12

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.


6/4/12

St. Regis 4


Likely the last of my many photos of the St. Regis Hotel, on 54th St. at 5th Ave., since its surface has still not come back to life since they repainted it, before these were taken.


5/23/12

Optical Oddities


Above, an optical facade at 2nd Ave. & 87th St.  Below left, another one at 3rd Ave. & 32nd St.


Above right, an odd alignment of Liberty Tower and a Chase building, from Maiden Lane near Broadway.  Another one below, from 10th Ave. & 40th St., with the green spires of the Church of Saints Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael in front of an odd earth-toned robot of a building (note the eye holes below the crown).


5/21/12