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Manhattan is completely flat, except where it's not. One of those rare hills is on Lexington Ave. near 100th St.
Some vaguely related music: Kate Bush, Running up that hill (A deal with God)
More Slice of Life / Around Harlem
The actual NYC Park name for this most viewed of any existing public works by Keith Haring is "Crack Is Wack Playground." The Parks Department has a tribute page for New York City's most loved graffiti artist. Even better is the fascinating slide show of the artist at work found at at The Keith Haring Foundation website.
These chickens are survivors - there was a huge fire underneath the Metro North Train tracks in East Harlem yesterday at the Urban Garden Center. These chickens call the Center their home. I was very happy to hear on the news tonight that they are safe.
The fire damaged support columns of the train tracks and disrupted train traffic for hundreds of thousands of commuters. Repairs are being made now and traffic should be back to normal tomorrow if all goes well.
Poor chickens have survived a nearby gas explosion two years ago which caused two 5-story apartment buildings to collapse and killed 8 people. Now they have survived a massive fire. As I said after the gas explosion these poor chickens probably thought the sky was falling like the story Chicken Little. It may be time for these chickens to fly the coop
Building at the southeast corner of 116th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem. Technically this is East Harlem because it is east of Fifth Ave. The apartments have been empty for the 21 years that I've lived in the neighborhood.
The place has the best gift shop, and I say this as someone who was at the Metropolitan Museum's gift shop just the day before.
Two very faded ads on this building at the northeast corner of 109th and 2nd Avenue in East Harlem. The ad on the left is for Bloomingdale's department store and the ad on the right is for Chas. H. Fletcher's Castoria oil. Both are at least a century old and they were covered up by 1940. Bloomingdale's has another century-old ghost sign a few blocks away at 116th and Lexington.
East Harlem, Manhattan
New York City, September 2023
Shortly after I stepped out of the subway station in this neighborhood, also known as Spanish Harlem ('El Barrio'), a local strongly advised me not to photograph people randomly. "It's a war zone, people get killed here. They don't like you wandering around with a camera".
Although I initially thought it was a bit exaggerated, I took his words seriously and decided to photograph interesting-looking locals after asking first for permission (which is always a good thing, by the way, showing respect; especially in Harlem). Performing pure street photography here is not a wise thing to do. There are a lot of drug addicts and people with mental illness in this neighborhood, especially around Lexington and 125th.
Then I saw this guy with some friends hanging out on the sidewalk. I immediately wanted to portray him.
When I approached he started rapping. It threw me off a bit (he appears to be a hip-hop artist) but after an introduction, he was kind enough to participate.
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Secondo giorno. Verso l'alto, verso Central Park. Oltre Central Park. Che per quanto mi riguarda non è neanche così straordinario. Meglio uscire e tornare a camminare in mezzo alla città.
Giusto il tempo di mangiare una pizza made in USA e spazzare via preconcetti sul fatto che la pizza in America non la sanno fare.
Poi, ancora oltre: East Harlem. Fuori dai quartieri di uffici e borghesi.
Finiture più scadenti, alcune case messe un po' male. Negozi più popolari: via le griffes, spazio a cibo etnico e rivendite di alcolici e “tobacco”. Un barbiere in una strada in pendenza (New York che si alza, si eleva). Tutto molto più “pop”, nel senso di “popular”, cioè di gente con meno soldi. E cantieri, anche qui. La città che continua a (ri)costruirsi e a ristrutturarsi. Cambiare sempre e rimanere sempre New York. Anzi, sempre Manhattan.
E cominciano a proliferare chiese, chiesine e chiesette.
Poi “il meno curato” sfuma. Torna tutto molto più ben tenuto, più gentil-residenziale. Non è più l'East Harlem, è Harlem da solo. L'Apollo, l'incrocio tra Malcom X e Martin Luther King, con tutto ciò che ne consegue.
Non rimane che prendere la metropolitana.
125th Street subway station on Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Boulevard, Harlem.
New York City, September 2015
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© NGimages / Nico Geerlings Photography
East Harlem at Park Avenue and 125th Street (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard).
Upper Manhattan, New York City, September 2015
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© NGimages / Nico Geerlings Photography
Based on the famous Frida Kahlo painting "The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas)" this mural is titled "Soldaderas (Women Soldiers)"and presents Frida Kahlo seated next to the Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
From the artist Yasmin Hernandez's website "Both women shared a profound love for their respective homelands of Mexico and Puerto Rico, appreciated and upheld revolutionary ideals, and embodied a feminist outlook. They suffered similar struggles and worked to overturn injustice. At a time in which their male counter parts did not delve into personal issues in their poetry and art, de Burgos and Kahlo unapologetically made the personal political. I view these women not only as contemporaries, but as soul sisters, battling the same challenges though hailing from different countries.
In a poetic twist, Julia de Burgos passed away on Frida Kahlo’s birthday. They died almost exactly one year apart. To mark this historic date in the legacy of these incredible mujeres, the mural unveiled with a commemorative event on July 6, 2011 at the Modesto Flores Community Garden in East Harlem.
Yashica Mat 124 - Fujichrome Velvia 100 - Epson V600
I couldn't decide which of the two pictures I took from this bridge I liked it better, so I'm posting both.