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I must thank you for the kind comments on the last picture but I just didn't want to see my giant face as the first thing on my stream anymore!! :P
Found these cute kids in Union Sq. I got pretty close...I think it was pretty obvious that I was creeping!!
Built between 1868 and 1877 on the south side of East 19th Street between 5th Avenue and Broadway.
"Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century. Its name denotes that "here was the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island". The current Union Square Park is bounded by 14th Street on the south, 17th Street on the north, and Union Square West and Union Square East to the west and east respectively. 17th Street links together Broadway and Park Avenue South on the north end of the park, while Union Square East connects Park Avenue South to Fourth Avenue and the continuation of Broadway on the park's south side. The park is maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Adjacent neighborhoods are the Flatiron District to the north, Chelsea to the west, Greenwich Village to the southwest, East Village to the southeast, and Gramercy Park to the east. Many buildings of The New School are near the square, as are several dormitories of New York University. The eastern side of the square is dominated by the four Zeckendorf Towers, and the south side by the full-square-block mixed-use One Union Square South, which contains a wall sculpture and digital clock titled Metronome. Union Square Park also contains an assortment of art, including statues of George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette, Abraham Lincoln, and Mahatma Gandhi.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
What's the first thing you check when you test out the Apple iPhone or the iPod touch ? Make sure it loads Flickr fine and it does. :) This is not mine. I was checking it out at the San Francisco Apple Store. I was actually hoping to buy the iPod touch but they were sold out.
On day 248, the Jewish brothers of nkusa organization protested the ongoing genocide in Palestine & the co-opting of Zionism with Judaism by the "Israeli" state, at the day of rage protest in Union Square, NYC. You can depend on these brothers to show up in solidarity with the Palestinian people at every protest proclaiming to the Zionist state of Israel, "Not in our name!"
In the picture a Jewish brother throws up a "V" symbol for victory.
The history of the word asparagus is a good illustration of one of the peculiarities of English etymology—one found in few other languages. After the rebirth of classical learning during the Renaissance, Greek and Latin achieved a lofty status among the educated. As a result, etymologists and spelling reformers of the 16th and 17th centuries tried to give English a classical look by Latinizing or Hellenizing the spelling of words that had Latin or Greek ancestry (and even some that didn't). For example, Medieval Latin had a word sparagus, from Classical Latin asparagus, that was borrowed into Middle English and rendered as sparage or, more commonly, sperage. Botanists were familiar with the proper Latin version asparagus, and their use of that term together with the efforts of the etymologists caused the Latin form to become more widespread, eventually supplanting sperage. Thus, it is difficult to say whether the Modern English word asparagus is a direct continuation of Middle English sperage or a borrowing directly from Latin, a difficulty one encounters with hundreds of other words whose spellings and even pronunciations were Latinized during this time. •The Latin form asparagus lives on in another guise as well; in the 1600s it was shortened in popular speech to ’sparagus, which became sparagrass, sparrowgrass by folk etymology
Source. The American Heritage Dictionary
Met this nice couple in Union Square, when asked to take their picture Rishay wanted to know why and if they were going to be famous. I told him to have his people call my people and we'll talk.
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Here is my block for this week, I decided to use fussy cuts. See how I made mine on my blog:
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Ellen
Union Square
Southern part at the West 14th Street with the statue of George Washington
Südlicher Teil an der West 14th Street mit der Reiterstatue George Washington
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The normally vigilant subway maintenance staff have left this alone, either out of inattention or appreciation. Naturally, it's almost certainly the former; I hope for the latter.
Places to check out in Union Square: Forbidden Planet, Guitar Center and The Strand. Many more, but these are the spots I frequent!