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Used to be my favorite. The best egg creams, milkshakes, and burgers in town. Sadly it's closed now.
During the 29th Annual Fleetweek celebration in New York City Memorial Day weekend, while crossing the Hudson River to get the USS Kearsarge LHD-3 docked at Pier 88 via New York Waterway Ferry as the sun was setting was able to capture this image of the W57 Building in Hell’s Kitchen referred to by some as great pyramid building though not really a pyramid nor a tetrahedron, but definitely unique addition high-rises in the skyline. There is essentially a building frenzy going on throughout the city, with the greatest concentration on the island of Manhattan, particularly in neighborhoods where in the past wouldn’t be considered candidates for high rise apartment buildings, Hell’s Kitchen, the East Village, the area surrounding the Highline Park and even though there is a lot of opposition in this area in particular Greenwich Village. So a walk in Hell’s Kitchen today is possible and quite pleasant, now a very gentrified area, many couples and families occupying the modernized tenements, the eateries lining 9th Avenue and the streets , so it was no surprise to see real estate developers buy up property and begin to build up.
Growing up in the 1970-1980’s, Hell’s Kitchen was not a place to venture to, after getting out of the Lincoln Tunnel, one definitely avoided turning westward, rather turning eastward and all the raunchiness and sleaziness of 42nd Street and Times Square may have been uneasy on the eye, but the risk of harm to oneself was considerably less than venturing into Hell’s Kitchen. So where did the name Hell’s Kitchen come from? The area, roughly bound between 34th and 57th Streets as the southern and northern borders and Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River east to west, from the mid 1800’s until the 1980’s was known for gruesome murders, the Irish mob, speakeasies and just plain violence. In the 1850’s a surge of Irish and German immigrants settled in this part of the city primarily because of its proximity to the Hudson River Docks, slaughter houses, lumber yards and the Hudson River Railroad which would become New York Central because the tracks ran down Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. Remember this part of the city was still the northern outskirts at that time and this kept the uneducated and unwelcomed immigrants away from the well to do folks who lived to the south and east. After the Civil War, gang of youths literally ruled the area. A gang referred to as Hell’s Kitchen gang was in constant battle with not only the New York Police Department but rival gangs such as the Gorillas, the Parlor Mob and the Gophers. When the Lincoln Tunnel was built, many of the tenements met their doom, as much of the area was cleared. The area though continued to linger as the gangs and their violence contributed to lower property values and rents, so it remained an alcove for the underprivileged. After World War II a new wave of immigrants moved in from Puerto Rico. Poor they banded together to form their own gangs that were in conflict with the Irish gang that still roamed the area. The storyline in Westside Story is based on this area and those conflicts. More buildings went down when the Port Authority Bus Terminal was built to accommodate not only the building but the ramps directly to the Lincoln Tunnel. The last gang of notoriety in the area was the Irish gang referred to as the Westies which I remember was one of the reasons to avoid the area while I was growing up and actually as an adult as their reign of terror which included drugs, murder, arson, theft, extortion, gambling, loan-sharking and illicit nightclubs lasted well into the late 1980’s. For anyone who saw the area back then and I know a few of you fellow flickr’ers lived here in the past, what it has become today is so different.
So this beautiful unique structure, W57 now adorns the skyline just north of the sea passenger terminals and a block south of the old IRT Powerhouse (Interborough Rapid Transit Powerhouse) that now belongs to ConEd is what’s referred to as a paraboloid according to Bjarke Ingels of the Danish architectural firm of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) that designed W57.
HDR taken with Olympus E-5 using an Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD lens, raw images processed in Photomatix Pro, cleaned up in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Not much to say.
I think everyone is reconisable. In my opinion Reyes and Castle turned out very well.
Side street right outside one of the underground exits of NYC Port Authority's South Wing Bus Terminal building. I don't usually take this exit so I was surprised. As soon as I walked out and saw the old buildings (vanishing New York) I knew it was a keeper. I stood in the middle of the street clicking away. Traffic is light on the street, These type buildings are slowly vanishing and will probably be all gone in twenty years.
Photo from a recent street photography workshop in Hell's Kitchen www.shootnewyorkcity.com/workshops
Whipped up for Kreative People's April challenge: Reflections.
Two photos stuck together vertically via Hugin... which ended up in a skewed orientation but somehow, I like it. Go figure, huh?
The Vessel, Hudson Yards, Manhattan.
*Note: all textures my own, unless specifically credited.
from my journal: "10 Mar 08 -- 0830h at the Galaxy Diner at the corner of 9th and 46th -- the menu sez grits on it...we shall see what they bring me."
14 years later, basically to the day, I am reminded of this wonderful place in Hell's Kitchen. Their grits were quite good.
A Westie doing a cooking show in Hell's Kitchen
Prompt: A photorealistic image of a west highland white terrier wearing a white chef's outfit, cooking in a commercial kitchen with a sign in the background "Hell's Kitchen". The Westie is stirring a simmering dish in a silver pot on a stovetop with a wooden spoon. There is steam rising from the pot. The westie has large, bright eyes. Soft light gently illuminates the Westie's face. The background shows a blurred kitchen scene with hanging pots, pans, and various jars of ingredients. Carrots are visible on the counter in the foreground, ultra-realistic, high-resolution, high-detail, aspect ratio square
This digital fine art was created using Chatgpt Sora AI and Photoshop
It was 107 (Fahrenheit) when I took this pic. Hell's Kitchen, indeed. 🔥
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