Columbus Circle, 1892
Museum of the City of New York
These electric poles are terrifying.
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View south on Broadway from south of 72nd Street, 1897
Byron Company, New York
Museum of the City of New YorkBroadway with horse-cars and cyclists, seven years before the IRT.
[h/t The Atlantic Cities: A Visual History of Manhattan’s Grid]
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Looking Southbound down the Henry Hudson Parkway, around W 69th, with the cruise ship piers ahead, Philip Johnson’s Trump buildings on the left.
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Four Years Of Foliage
In October 2007 in New York it seemed one couldn’t have a conversation without someone mentioning the warm weather. Not in a smalltalk way—more like the Ancient Mariner, or someone who fears she or he has seen a ghost. The year before I’d been in Central Park shooting video at peak color, and I decided to revisit the same spots. In places, trees that had been leafless by that time in 2006 hadn’t even begun to turn. Peak color came a full two weeks late.
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