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Showing posts with label Manhattan Skyline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manhattan Skyline. Show all posts
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Into The Blues
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Manhattan Skyline
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| The Empire State Building |
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| Marina at Harbor Blvd. Weehawken, NJ |
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| One World Trade Center |
The marvels of daily
life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find
in the street.
Robert
Doisneau - "The Encyclopedia of Photography"
(1984)
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Brooklyn Bridge
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...the goal of art
was the vital expression of self. - Alfred
Stieglitz
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The Brooklyn
Bridge is a bridge in New York City and
is one of the oldest suspension
bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by
spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet
(486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the
world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire
suspension bridge.
The
Brooklyn Bridge is accessible from the Brooklyn entrances of Tillary/Adams
Streets, Sands/Pearl Streets, and Exit 28B of the eastbound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In Manhattan,
motor cars can enter from either direction of the FDR Drive, Park Row, Chambers/Centre Streets, and
Pearl/Frankfort Streets. Pedestrian access to the bridge from the Brooklyn side
is from either Tillary/Adams Streets (in between the auto entrance/exit), or a
staircase on Prospect St between Cadman Plaza East and West. In Manhattan, the
pedestrian walkway is accessible from the end of Centre Street, or through the
unpaid south staircase of Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall IRT subway station.
The
Brooklyn Bridge has a wide pedestrian walkway open to walkers and cyclists, in
the center of the bridge and higher than the automobile lanes. While the bridge
has always permitted the passage of pedestrians across its span, its role in
allowing thousands to cross takes on a special importance in times of
difficulty when usual means of crossing the East River have become unavailable.
On October 1, 2011,
more than 700 protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement were arrested
while attempting to march across the bridge on the roadway.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Mannahata! - II
The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata,
as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). A
1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides
of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River). The word
"Manhattan" has been translated as "island of many hills"
from the Lenape language.
Enjoy Your Sunday!
Friday, December 9, 2011
NYC III
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Photo Friday - Fri Dec 09, 2011
This week's challenge:
'Depth Perception'. |
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Jaques Torres Chocolate
Down Under the Manhattan Bridge
Overpass, on Water Street, you will find the first Jacques Torres Chocolate
location. From street level, visitors can glimpse the chocolate factory in
action and the store shelves filled with chocolate treats.
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