Grace Church

Grace Church on Broadway at around 9th Street. Designed by the same guy who designed St. Patrick's Cathedral on 50th Street and Fifth Avenue.

Union Square

Sky over Union Square this afternoon.

Downtown

Sky over Pace University.

Towards Broadway

Looking at 26 Federal Plaza with St. Andrew's, Marshall Courthouse and the NYC Municipal Building to the sides.

Pro HDR photo using the two photos below.

iPhone HDR image

iPhone regular photo

NY Harbor at Twilight

The Statue of Liberty and the harbor at twilight; 9/15/2010.

NY Harbor at twilight

The harbor from Battery Park at twilight; 9/15/2010.

Urban Cowboy

Urban cowboy tow truck operator, late Saturday night on Flatbush Avenue at Fourth Avenue. That is Williamsburg Savings Bank building in the background.

Dan's 12th birthday and end of 2010 season gathering.

No. 5 Express

Waiting for the green light, Downtown no 5 Express at East 180th Street.

East 180th Street

Waiting for the no. 5 at East 180th Street.

Happy Birthday Dan; Dan's 12th birthday; 9/11/2010.

Help line

There is a help line for every problem.

Clouds over East Broadway

Clouds over East Broadway. NYC Municipal Building is is the distance.

Late afternoon sky from Pelham Manor looking towards The Bronx.

Tugboat Helen McAllister at South Street Seaport Museum.

New M-15 Bus

One of the new three door articulated buses on the M-15 line. M-15 is the second busiest bus line in the city.

NYC Parking "Meter"

Muni-Meter. Replaces individual parking meters along the streets. Probably puts quite a few meter collection people out of work.

NYC Traffic Signal Control Box

Manhattan drinking water sample station

Back

NYC DRINKING WATER SAMPLING STATION

front

Manhattan DPW COVER

Labor day picnic II

Brought iPad with me. With just a little assistance from their 12 yr old cousin the other kids had it up and running all day long. It is pretty intuitive.

Labor day weekend picnic

Picnic over the weekend at nephew Tim's house. Good time.

Maryann, Danny & Shannon.

FDNY manhole cover. I assume it is part of their telegraph fire call box system.

 

Another LILCO manhole cover.

 

LILCO manhole cover. Now just a memory; taken over by LIPA in 1998.

 

Another surfer at Rockaway Beach after the passing of Earl.

 

Surfer at Rockaway Beach, around Beach 98th Street.

 

Goodbye Earl

Goodbye Earl. You were a bust and no one is disappointed by this news save for the newscasters. Also keep your future cousins away.

Manhole cover, Manhattan

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.