Manhole covers this time in Manhattan.

Earl Sky

Sky over Chinatown from passing of Hurricane Earl.

Hurricane Earl

Forecast position 2:00 PM 9/3/2010

Manhole covers in Brooklyn

Some of the manhole covers I came across during a walk near Atlantic Avenue. The "Catskill" covers were the ones that struck me as I cannot remember ever seeing them before.

The city manhole covers used to be made in Harrison, NJ.

Hurricane Earl

Hurricane Earl position at 2:00 PM 9/2/2010.

Hurricane Earl

Hurriciane Earl's position at 2:00 PM 9/1/2010.

The Hutchinson River is a "canal" at this point; Pelham Manor on the drawbridge at Columbia Street and Pelham Parkway. It was hazy out, with no movement in the air and was a mirror.

Dyre Avenue

Waiting for No. 5 train at Dyre Avenue.

Hurricane Earl:
Position as of 2:00 PM 8/31/2010

NYC Municipal Building at Chambers and Centre Streets was finished in 1915. It served as the prototype of the Stalin-era Seven Sisters in Moscow, Russia.

This image is from the back.

Woolworth Building, Broadway.
The "Cathedral of Commerce"

Williamsburg Bank Building; the second tallest building in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York; Kings County.
Used to be full of dentists, now luxury condos.
1 Hanson Place and the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues.

Courthouse with Bishop's Crosier lamp post. You will recognize the courthouse as the one used by the "Law & Order" shows.

Classic coffee to go cup from NYC Greek coffee shop. I think a copy has been put on the Smithsonian Institute, our nation's attic

Time Wasters

In the never ending quest to find things that waste my time the electronic 21st Century has aced it. Angry Birds for the iPhone (iPad) is at the top if my list.
Next is Netflix on the iPhone and iPad.

Clouds over Chinatown

Last night clouds over Chinatown after a storm.

Under the FDR at dusk - II

Manhattan Bridge just before 8:00 PM.

Under the FDR at dusk.

I walk down to the to East River a few nights each week. I go there mainly after dark and take some pictures of the two bridges (Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges) in their night gettup; lights along the main cables. Every once in a while I go down there when it is still light.
I almost always have a camera with me. Taking the nighttime photos are tough and I haven't gotten the "perfect" shot yet, but I keep trying. The advantage to gong down there in the light (besides the obvious one) is I can take shots of the bridges and the clouds over New York.

Brooklyn Bridge just before 8:00 PM.

Mamaroneck Station

Waiting for the 3:26 PM Metro-North train to Grand Central, Boston bound Amtrak goes through Mamaroneck Station.

Subway Art - 1

NYC Transit has commissioned artist to add something tongue station renovations. This one is on the Manhattan bound side is the IRT No's 2&5 trains.

Voted republican

The only Republican I ever votes for was Louis Leflowitz for NYS Attorney General. Here is NYS office building named for him.

Noodle factory

There is a noodle factory on Forsythe Street just off Canal street. When you look in, there are stations with men pulling, and making noodles at machines. The air is always filled with a fine flour dust. Some of the workers wear masks while others do not. I can't imagine the masks much bit they are probably better them none. I bet the lungs of the workers is filled with this dust and j wonder what happens when there is high humidity in the air. Does the dust get moist and become a semi dough and then harden like bread dough left out on the counter?

Along the East River

At night a walk along the East River, under the FDR is a great place to come. It is cooler then East Broadway and the lights from the two bridges, reflected on the water is really nice.

Walked down Atlantic avenue Saturday night in search if a lottery ticket. Pretty sad but nice walk. :-)

Atlantic avenue Saturday evening

 

Circle line on July 2, 2010. It has been about 15 years since I last took the "cruise" and it is still exciting to see Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and even Jersey from the water. :-)

 

All images I sent and received via Text Message. :-)

MTA's new buses on the M-15. List of bus numbers I have seen; dorky I know but .... ! :-)




Listing of buses: (separate webpage)

iPhone and AT&T usage: (separate webpage)

Last night of fireworks for 2009 at Coney Island. There was a full or nearly full moon which added to the pyrotechnics.

Trip to DC with Michael Quan and Mohamed Ourais. Here are their pictures on the DC Metro riding into town from Maryland.



Mohamed



Michael

SEPTA TO 3OTH STREET STATION

Took the train to Philadelphia on Friday 12/26. Went to see the city, yes but mostly went to get a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich at Rick's in the Reading Terminal Market. Shit was I surprised and disappointed when I found out Rick's had been "forced" to close. Had to settle for a fresh turkey sandwich; it was good but it wasn't a cheesesteak sandwich. I have found that the Philly Cheesesteak sandwich doesn't travel well and it is best in the city of brotherly love.

Long winded intro to the video; Before and into North Philadelphia and then before and into 30th Street Station.

145th Street, Lexington Avenue Line

Waiting with a friend for another one to arrive at 14th Street on the Lexington Ave line; some trains in and out both uptown and downtown.

Out the Window of Cafe-Cafe

Sitting in "Cafe Cafe" on Greene Street in SoHo looking out the front window; not much happens.

TUNNEL ART - NYC SUBWAY

Tunnel art in the tunnel between DeKalb Avenue and the Brooklyn portal of the Manhatten Bridge on the "B" and sometime "D" train.

From Fulton Ferry pier.

Christopher Street at the other Holloween Parade, it is early in the evening gets better.

From the roof of apartment building; N or Q train over the Manhattan Bridge going to Brooklyn.

Evening walk to the river.

Down to the river on a bright sunny autumn day.

Taken from the third floor of Pier 17, South Street Seaport.

Took the free ferry to Ikea on Sunday. Walked around the new Erie Basin Park, old Todd Shipyards in Red Hook. I walked across the street and took this panorama of this "industrial" basin.

Down to the Rockaways to take some pictures of the "surfers". I am not sure how big the surf gets normally but there wasn't much of a surf and there weren't many surfers there.

From St. George to Whitehall on the Staten Island Ferry. Two Coast Guard "gunboats" raced to nowhere with lights flashing and if they had sirens they would have been wailing too.

On a bridge over the Charles River.

Out on the fishing pier this guy was taking a midafternoon nap.

Coney Island again this afternoon. New Nikon Coolpix P5100 camera, dropped one Samsung and kicked the other, so out of convenient video cameras. I am sure this will fill up my harddrives nicely.

Took six(6) videos of different Cyclone runs. I just wanted the first drop. Spliced them together in QuickTime Pro.

Again with the fireworks.

Last night at Coney Island (06/27/2008) fireworks finale.

First night of fireworks at Coney Island.

Coney Island three times last week, twice at night and once on Sunday. Some of the many, many images I took; most of them were on Sunday from the fishing pier.

I was standing on the pier talking to a young fisherman and as I was taking pictures about five or six people came up to me to ask me to take their pictures with the rides in the background. I gladly complied and then took their pictures with the rides and then had to explain to them about the Parachute Jump as I moved them to where I could take their picture with it as the bacground.

Last year in Vienna I was out walking and crossed a bridge over a small train yard.

Pre Xmas gathering at my sister-in-law's

Instead of taking the LIRR from Penn I decided to take it from Jamaica. I took the "J" Train (Jamaica Avenue el) from Essex and was fortunate to have a semi-clean front window.

I hadn't been on the Jamaica Avenue el in the daytime since high school. When I was going to school in Brooklyn, Bishop Loughlin, I sometimes took the Myrtle Avenue el to Myrtle Avenue changed to the Jamaica Avenue el to 168th Street and then the buses home. This was instead of the more direct route: "GG" Clinton Washington to Queens Plaza and then the "E" to 169th Street and then a walk to the 165th Street bus terminal.

Because of the length of the trip and the limitations of Youtube and anyone who views the video, I broke it into six segments:

• Essex to Marcy over the bridge
  
• Marcy to Myrtle
  
• Myrtle to Broadway Junction
  
• Broadway Junction to Cypress Hills
  
• Cypress Hills to Woodhaven
  
• Woodhaven to Parsons Archer
  

Essex to Marcy over the bridge


Marcy to Myrtle


Myrtle to Broadway Junction


Broadway Junction to Cypress Hills



Cypress Hills to Woodhaven


Woodhaven to Parsons Archer

Couldn't even afford a flashing red light!

Budget cuts are happening all over the place. There is no organization safe from them:

Ride up to Dyckman Park via the A Train.
Video of ride from 155th Street to Dyckman St.

Staten Island Ferry from St. George to Whitehall.

Waiting for the Staten Island Ferry watched this young girl play "pickpocket" with her father's MetroCard and pocket.