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Broadway | West 135th Street 30/04/2015 15h40
Broadway as seen from the crossroad with the West 135th Street. The subway on the Seventh Avenue Local line 1 is escaping from the underground to pass the Manhattan Valley on a viaduct between the 122th and 135th Street. Also visible the above ground station 125th Street with a local train on line 1 about to arrive at that station.
Broadway
Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs 21 km through Manhattan and 3.2 km through the Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional 29 km through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County. Total length is 53 kilometers.
It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. The name Broadway is the English literal translation of the Dutch name, Breede weg. Broadway is known widely as the heart of the American theatre industry.
Broadway runs the length of Manhattan Island, roughly parallel to the North River (the portion of the Hudson River bordering Manhattan), from Bowling Green at the south to Inwood at the northern tip of the island. South of Columbus Circle, it is a one-way southbound street. Since 2009, vehicular traffic has been banned at Times Square between 47th and 42nd Streets, and at Herald Square between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians. From the northern shore of Manhattan, Broadway crosses Spuyten Duyvil Creek via the Broadway Bridge and continues through Marble Hill (a discontinuous portion of the borough of Manhattan) and the Bronx into Westchester County. U.S. 9 continues to be known as Broadway through its junction with NY 117.
[ Source & much more Info: Wikipedia - Broadway (Manhattan) ]
Broadway | West 135th Street 30/04/2015 15h40
Broadway as seen from the crossroad with the West 135th Street. The subway on the Seventh Avenue Local line 1 is escaping from the underground to pass the Manhattan Valley on a viaduct between the 122th and 135th Street. Also visible the above ground station 125th Street with a local train on line 1 about to arrive at that station.
1 (New York City Subway service)
The 1 Broadway – Seventh Avenue Local is a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored tomato red since it uses the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line for its entire route. The 1 operates local at all times between Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street in Riverdale, Bronx and South Ferry in Lower Manhattan.
LINE 1
Northern end: Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street
Southern end: South Ferry
Stations: 38 (incl. Cortlandt Street)
Rolling stock: R62, R62A
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Depot 240th Street Yard
Ford LTD (2nd Gen) Country Squire (1969-78) Engine 400 cu in (6600c) 335 V8
Registration Number GYB 377 T (Taunton)
FORD USA SET
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The second generation Ford LTD launched in 1969 came with a major redesign Based on a largely carryover chassis, the wheelbase of all full-size Ford sedans now stretched to 121 inches. chassis; the hidden headlights and formal roofline introduced in 1967 are retained. An all-new body features a split grille with a horizontal center divider (shared with XLs and Country Squires). Over its ten year lifespan the LTD enjoyed year on year updates
1978 was the final year for the 121-inch wheelbase LTD, as it is replaced by the downsized Panther-platform generation LTD II for 1979.
Approximately 7,850,000 full-size Fords and Mercurys were sold over the 1969-78 period makingit Fords second best selling platform after the Model T
Many thanks for a fantabulous 37,805,000 views
Shot at the Haynes International Motor Museum Sparkford, Somerset 23rd June 2015 Ref 107-102
Riverside Drive | Riverview Apartments 30/04/2015 15h37
Driving North over the Riverside Drive (the Manhattan Valley viaduct) and having this huge apartment complex at the rightside, the Riverview Apartments. This neighbourhood is both Harlem and Manhattanville.
Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the Census found that for the first time since the 1930s Harlem's population was no longer a majority black, with their share being 4 in 10 residents.
Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan, often referred to as Uptown by locals. It stretches from the East River in the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington Heights, and an uneven boundary along the south that runs along either 96th Street east of Fifth Avenue or 110th Street west of Fifth Avenue.
Central Harlem is bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park on the south, Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Avenue and Edgecombe Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the north.[10] A chain of three large linear parks — Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park — are situated on steeply rising banks and form most of the district's western boundary. On the east, Fifth Avenue and Marcus Garvey Park, also known as Mount Morris Park, separate this area from East Harlem. The bulk of the area falls under Manhattan Community Board No. 10. In the late 2000s, South Harlem, emerged from area redevelopment, running along Frederick Douglass Boulevard from West 110th to West 138th Streets.
The West Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights comprise part of Manhattan Community Board No. 9. The two neighborhoods' area is bounded by Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) on the South; 155th Street on the North; Manhattan/Morningside Ave/St. Nicholas/Bradhurst/Edgecome Avenues on the East; and Riverside Park/the Hudson River on the west. Morningside Heights is located in the southern most section of West Harlem. Manhattanville begins at roughly 123rd Street and extends northward to 135th Street. The northern most section of West Harlem is Hamilton Heights.
East Harlem, also called Spanish Harlem, within Manhattan Community Board 11, is bounded by East 96th Street on the south, East 142nd Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the east.
FACTS & FIGURES
Founded: 1658
Named for: Haarlem, Netherlands
Area: 10.03 km2
Population: 335,000 (2000)
Density: 33,000/km2
Nicknames: "Black mecca", "Heaven"
Motto: "Making It!"
[ Source and endless more: Wikipedia - Harlem ]
West 125th Street | St Nicholas Avenue 30/04/2015 15h49
The corner of the West 125th Street and St Nicholas Avenue in Harlem.
Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the Census found that for the first time since the 1930s Harlem's population was no longer a majority black, with their share being 4 in 10 residents.
Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan, often referred to as Uptown by locals. It stretches from the East River in the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington Heights, and an uneven boundary along the south that runs along either 96th Street east of Fifth Avenue or 110th Street west of Fifth Avenue.
Central Harlem is bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park on the south, Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Avenue and Edgecombe Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the north.[10] A chain of three large linear parks — Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park — are situated on steeply rising banks and form most of the district's western boundary. On the east, Fifth Avenue and Marcus Garvey Park, also known as Mount Morris Park, separate this area from East Harlem. The bulk of the area falls under Manhattan Community Board No. 10. In the late 2000s, South Harlem, emerged from area redevelopment, running along Frederick Douglass Boulevard from West 110th to West 138th Streets.
The West Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights comprise part of Manhattan Community Board No. 9. The two neighborhoods' area is bounded by Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) on the South; 155th Street on the North; Manhattan/Morningside Ave/St. Nicholas/Bradhurst/Edgecome Avenues on the East; and Riverside Park/the Hudson River on the west. Morningside Heights is located in the southern most section of West Harlem. Manhattanville begins at roughly 123rd Street and extends northward to 135th Street. The northern most section of West Harlem is Hamilton Heights.
East Harlem, also called Spanish Harlem, within Manhattan Community Board 11, is bounded by East 96th Street on the south, East 142nd Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the east.
FACTS & FIGURES
Founded: 1658
Named for: Haarlem, Netherlands
Area: 10.03 km2
Population: 335,000 (2000)
Density: 33,000/km2
Nicknames: "Black mecca", "Heaven"
Motto: "Making It!"
[ Source and endless more: Wikipedia - Harlem ]
West 135th Street 30/04/2015 15h38
The West 135th Street end in the Hudson River. Photo taken between Broadway and Riverside Drive when driving East.
Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the Census found that for the first time since the 1930s Harlem's population was no longer a majority black, with their share being 4 in 10 residents.
Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan, often referred to as Uptown by locals. It stretches from the East River in the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington Heights, and an uneven boundary along the south that runs along either 96th Street east of Fifth Avenue or 110th Street west of Fifth Avenue.
Central Harlem is bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park on the south, Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Avenue and Edgecombe Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the north.[10] A chain of three large linear parks — Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park — are situated on steeply rising banks and form most of the district's western boundary. On the east, Fifth Avenue and Marcus Garvey Park, also known as Mount Morris Park, separate this area from East Harlem. The bulk of the area falls under Manhattan Community Board No. 10. In the late 2000s, South Harlem, emerged from area redevelopment, running along Frederick Douglass Boulevard from West 110th to West 138th Streets.
The West Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights comprise part of Manhattan Community Board No. 9. The two neighborhoods' area is bounded by Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) on the South; 155th Street on the North; Manhattan/Morningside Ave/St. Nicholas/Bradhurst/Edgecome Avenues on the East; and Riverside Park/the Hudson River on the west. Morningside Heights is located in the southern most section of West Harlem. Manhattanville begins at roughly 123rd Street and extends northward to 135th Street. The northern most section of West Harlem is Hamilton Heights.
East Harlem, also called Spanish Harlem, within Manhattan Community Board 11, is bounded by East 96th Street on the south, East 142nd Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the east.
FACTS & FIGURES
Founded: 1658
Named for: Haarlem, Netherlands
Area: 10.03 km2
Population: 335,000 (2000)
Density: 33,000/km2
Nicknames: "Black mecca", "Heaven"
Motto: "Making It!"
[ Source and endless more: Wikipedia - Harlem ]
Malcolm X Blvd | West 120th Street 30/04/2015 15h57
The Malcolm X Blvd is street which terminates at the South at Central Park and imaginary is situated in the extension of the Sixth Avenue.
At the right one block up the Saint Martin's Episcopal Church.
Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the Census found that for the first time since the 1930s Harlem's population was no longer a majority black, with their share being 4 in 10 residents.
Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan, often referred to as Uptown by locals. It stretches from the East River in the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington Heights, and an uneven boundary along the south that runs along either 96th Street east of Fifth Avenue or 110th Street west of Fifth Avenue.
Central Harlem is bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park on the south, Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Avenue and Edgecombe Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the north.[10] A chain of three large linear parks — Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park — are situated on steeply rising banks and form most of the district's western boundary. On the east, Fifth Avenue and Marcus Garvey Park, also known as Mount Morris Park, separate this area from East Harlem. The bulk of the area falls under Manhattan Community Board No. 10. In the late 2000s, South Harlem, emerged from area redevelopment, running along Frederick Douglass Boulevard from West 110th to West 138th Streets.
The West Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights comprise part of Manhattan Community Board No. 9. The two neighborhoods' area is bounded by Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) on the South; 155th Street on the North; Manhattan/Morningside Ave/St. Nicholas/Bradhurst/Edgecome Avenues on the East; and Riverside Park/the Hudson River on the west. Morningside Heights is located in the southern most section of West Harlem. Manhattanville begins at roughly 123rd Street and extends northward to 135th Street. The northern most section of West Harlem is Hamilton Heights.
East Harlem, also called Spanish Harlem, within Manhattan Community Board 11, is bounded by East 96th Street on the south, East 142nd Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the east.
FACTS & FIGURES
Founded: 1658
Named for: Haarlem, Netherlands
Area: 10.03 km2
Population: 335,000 (2000)
Density: 33,000/km2
Nicknames: "Black mecca", "Heaven"
Motto: "Making It!"
[ Source and endless more: Wikipedia - Harlem ]
Duke Ellington Circle 30/04/2015 16h02
The North-east corner of Central Park, the crossroad of Fifth Avenue and West 110th Street has a circle as well; the Duke Ellington Circle.
Duke Ellington Circle
Duke Ellington Circle is a traffic circle located at the Northeast corner of Central Park at the foot of Fifth Avenue and of 110th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The traffic circle is named for the legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington.
Formerly named "Frawley Circle", the traffic circle was renamed "Duke Ellington Circle" in 1995. In 1997, a 7.6 m tall statue by sculptor Robert Graham, depicting the Muses — nine nude caryatids — supporting a grand piano and Duke Ellington on their heads was erected in the middle of the shallow amphitheater composing the circle. Though the circle diverts the flow of 110th street, Fifth Avenue maintains a direct route through the intersection.
A new main location for the Museum for African Art designed by Robert A.M. Stern is scheduled to open at the circle in 2011 and will be the first addition to New York City's Museum Mile in decades.
Duke Ellington Circle connects the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem with Spanish Harlem. Harlem, which since the 1920s has been as a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center is to the North and East of the intersection. The nearest area of Central Park to the circle is the Harlem Meer.
[ Source: Wikipedia - Duke Ellington Circle ]
Amsterdam Avenue | West 130th Street 30/04/2015 15h42
Driving South from the 135th Street to the 125th Street which is considered as downtown Harlem.
Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the Census found that for the first time since the 1930s Harlem's population was no longer a majority black, with their share being 4 in 10 residents.
Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan, often referred to as Uptown by locals. It stretches from the East River in the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington Heights, and an uneven boundary along the south that runs along either 96th Street east of Fifth Avenue or 110th Street west of Fifth Avenue.
Central Harlem is bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park on the south, Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Avenue and Edgecombe Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the north.[10] A chain of three large linear parks — Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park — are situated on steeply rising banks and form most of the district's western boundary. On the east, Fifth Avenue and Marcus Garvey Park, also known as Mount Morris Park, separate this area from East Harlem. The bulk of the area falls under Manhattan Community Board No. 10. In the late 2000s, South Harlem, emerged from area redevelopment, running along Frederick Douglass Boulevard from West 110th to West 138th Streets.
The West Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights comprise part of Manhattan Community Board No. 9. The two neighborhoods' area is bounded by Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) on the South; 155th Street on the North; Manhattan/Morningside Ave/St. Nicholas/Bradhurst/Edgecome Avenues on the East; and Riverside Park/the Hudson River on the west. Morningside Heights is located in the southern most section of West Harlem. Manhattanville begins at roughly 123rd Street and extends northward to 135th Street. The northern most section of West Harlem is Hamilton Heights.
East Harlem, also called Spanish Harlem, within Manhattan Community Board 11, is bounded by East 96th Street on the south, East 142nd Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the east.
FACTS & FIGURES
Founded: 1658
Named for: Haarlem, Netherlands
Area: 10.03 km2
Population: 335,000 (2000)
Density: 33,000/km2
Nicknames: "Black mecca", "Heaven"
Motto: "Making It!"
[ Source and endless more: Wikipedia - Harlem ]
Amsterdam Avenue | West 125th Street 30/04/2015 15h47
West 125th Avenue is also named the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and is one of the main streets in Harlem. We just turned from the Amsterdam Avenue to the 125th Street just like the Open Tour bus which is following us here.
In the distance the viaduct of the subway (line 1) with the station 125th Street.
Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the Census found that for the first time since the 1930s Harlem's population was no longer a majority black, with their share being 4 in 10 residents.
Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan, often referred to as Uptown by locals. It stretches from the East River in the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington Heights, and an uneven boundary along the south that runs along either 96th Street east of Fifth Avenue or 110th Street west of Fifth Avenue.
Central Harlem is bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park on the south, Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Avenue and Edgecombe Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the north.[10] A chain of three large linear parks — Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park — are situated on steeply rising banks and form most of the district's western boundary. On the east, Fifth Avenue and Marcus Garvey Park, also known as Mount Morris Park, separate this area from East Harlem. The bulk of the area falls under Manhattan Community Board No. 10. In the late 2000s, South Harlem, emerged from area redevelopment, running along Frederick Douglass Boulevard from West 110th to West 138th Streets.
The West Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights comprise part of Manhattan Community Board No. 9. The two neighborhoods' area is bounded by Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) on the South; 155th Street on the North; Manhattan/Morningside Ave/St. Nicholas/Bradhurst/Edgecome Avenues on the East; and Riverside Park/the Hudson River on the west. Morningside Heights is located in the southern most section of West Harlem. Manhattanville begins at roughly 123rd Street and extends northward to 135th Street. The northern most section of West Harlem is Hamilton Heights.
East Harlem, also called Spanish Harlem, within Manhattan Community Board 11, is bounded by East 96th Street on the south, East 142nd Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the east.
FACTS & FIGURES
Founded: 1658
Named for: Haarlem, Netherlands
Area: 10.03 km2
Population: 335,000 (2000)
Density: 33,000/km2
Nicknames: "Black mecca", "Heaven"
Motto: "Making It!"
[ Source and endless more: Wikipedia - Harlem ]
Dunkin'Donuts 30/04/2015 15h56
Just a close-up of a Dunkin'Donuts sign while standing for a red light. Point of view is the upperdeck of an Open Tour hop-on-hop-off bus operated by Grey Line (the Uptown & Harlem Loop).
Dunkin'Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts is an American global doughnut company and coffeehouse chain based in Canton, Massachusetts in Greater Boston. It was founded in 1950 by William Rosenberg in Quincy, Massachusetts. Since its founding, the company has grown to become one of the largest coffee and baked goods chains in the world, with 11,000 restaurants in 33 countries. The chain's products include doughnuts, bagels, other baked goods, and a wide variety of hot and iced beverages.
The company primarily competes with Starbucks, as over half the company's business is in coffee sales, as well as with Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Honey Dew Donuts.
Before 1990, Dunkin' Donuts' primary competitor was Mister Donut, but in February of that year Mister Donut was acquired by Dunkin' Donuts' owner Allied-Lyons. After the acquisition of Mister Donut by Allied-Lyons, all Mister Donut stores in North America were offered the chance to change their name to Dunkin' Donuts.
As of 2014, Dunkin' Donuts is owned by Dunkin' Brands Inc., which also owns Baskin-Robbins and previously owned the Togo's chain.
[ Source and much more Information: Wikipedia - Dunkin'Donuts ]
Amsterdam Avenue 30/04/2015 15h42
Driving South from the 135th Street to the 125th Street over the Amsterdam Avenue. Harlem!
Tenth Avenue (Manhattan)
Tenth Avenue, known as Amsterdam Avenue between 59th Street and 193rd Street, is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It carries uptown (northbound) traffic as far as West 110th Street – also known as Cathedral Parkway for the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine – after which it continues as a two-way street.
Tenth Avenue begins a block below Gansevoort Street and Eleventh Avenue in the West Village / Meatpacking District. For the southernmost stretch (the four blocks below 14th Street), Tenth Avenue runs southbound. North of 14th Street, Tenth Avenue runs uptown (northbound) for 45 blocks as a one-way street until its intersection with West 59th Street, where it becomes Amsterdam Avenue but continues without interruption. Amsterdam Avenue continues as a one-way street northbound until Cathedral Parkway, where two-way traffic resumes.
As Amsterdam Avenue, the thoroughfare stretches 129 blocks north – narrowing to one lane in each direction as it passes through Yeshiva University's Wilf Campus, between 184th and 186th Streets – before connecting with Fort George Avenue south of Highbridge Park at West 193rd Street.
On the north side of Highbridge Park, unconnected to Amsterdam Avenue on the south side, Tenth Avenue then runs for slightly less than a mile from the northern terminus of the Harlem River Drive at Dyckman Street, to the intersection of West 218th Street and Broadway, where it merges into Broadway.
[ Source & much more Info: Wikipedia - Tenth Avenue ]
West 125th Street | Apollo Theater 30/04/2015 15h52
Passing by one of the main landmarks of the West 125th Street, the Apollo Theater. Showtime! This all seen from our upperdeck on the Uptown & Harlem Loop.
Apollo Theater
The Apollo Theater at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City is a music hall which is a noted venue for African-American performers. It was the home of Showtime at the Apollo, a nationally syndicated television variety show which showcased new talent, from 1987 to 2008, encompassing 1093 episodes.
The theater, which has a capacity of 1506, was built in 1913-14 as Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater, and was designed by George Keister in the neo-Classical style. It became the Apollo in 1934, when it was opened to black patrons – previously it had been a whites-only venue. In 1983 both the interior and exterior of the building were designated as New York City Landmarks, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is estimated that 1.3 million people visit the Apollo every year.
The Apollo Theater Legends Hall of Fame has inducted such renowned performers and music-industry figures as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Michael Jackson, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Elton John, Little Richard, Hall & Oates, Ella Fitzgerald, Smokey Robinson, Billy Eckstine, Gladys Knight, The Pips, The Jacksons, Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle.
[ Source and much more: Wikipedia - Apollo Theater ]
This is one of the three Burger King restaurants in upper Manhattan. An instore restaurant on the West 125th Street in central Harlem. Point of view is the upperdeck of an Open Tour hop-on-hop-off bus operated by Grey Line (the Uptown & Harlem Loop).
Burger King
130 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10027
Phone: +1 212-316-8027
Featuring: (instore) open from 7AM - 0AM
Store #: 4696
Date of opening: estimated the 1980's
West 125th Street | Frederick Douglass Blvd 30/04/2015 15h50
The corner of the West 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. People, a mural and a place to pray for all people.
Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the Census found that for the first time since the 1930s Harlem's population was no longer a majority black, with their share being 4 in 10 residents.
Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan, often referred to as Uptown by locals. It stretches from the East River in the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington Heights, and an uneven boundary along the south that runs along either 96th Street east of Fifth Avenue or 110th Street west of Fifth Avenue.
Central Harlem is bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park on the south, Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Avenue and Edgecombe Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the north.[10] A chain of three large linear parks — Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park — are situated on steeply rising banks and form most of the district's western boundary. On the east, Fifth Avenue and Marcus Garvey Park, also known as Mount Morris Park, separate this area from East Harlem. The bulk of the area falls under Manhattan Community Board No. 10. In the late 2000s, South Harlem, emerged from area redevelopment, running along Frederick Douglass Boulevard from West 110th to West 138th Streets.
The West Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights comprise part of Manhattan Community Board No. 9. The two neighborhoods' area is bounded by Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) on the South; 155th Street on the North; Manhattan/Morningside Ave/St. Nicholas/Bradhurst/Edgecome Avenues on the East; and Riverside Park/the Hudson River on the west. Morningside Heights is located in the southern most section of West Harlem. Manhattanville begins at roughly 123rd Street and extends northward to 135th Street. The northern most section of West Harlem is Hamilton Heights.
East Harlem, also called Spanish Harlem, within Manhattan Community Board 11, is bounded by East 96th Street on the south, East 142nd Street on the north, Fifth Avenue on the west, and the Harlem River on the east.
FACTS & FIGURES
Founded: 1658
Named for: Haarlem, Netherlands
Area: 10.03 km2
Population: 335,000 (2000)
Density: 33,000/km2
Nicknames: "Black mecca", "Heaven"
Motto: "Making It!"
[ Source and endless more: Wikipedia - Harlem ]
Two women discussed making spaghetti bolognese. The whole room fell silent, in respect. One nodded gravely, having bought godknows how many tomatoes from this particular stall in the Rahat market, and peeled them, properly, knowing how the job should correctly be done and properly, ah-ha, nodded about. I felt my whole culture inadequate, my mother, wife, self, everyone not up to scratch. It’s true: I can’t even spell Elenor Rosavelt. And it was fine, me blending into the background as is proper for my sex, and being without a super-wife spag-bolist here and therefore not likely to win any glittering prizes, until I thought to contribute by telling the room how I’d bought a packet of dehydrated spaghetti bolognese and mixed in goats cheese to give it some taste. Then I got a well deserved silence, career stumping, hard shouldered, rock breasted, flared nosed, unsmiling goodnight from a lady in, I thought, knickers so large any woman with any libido at all wouldn’t slip anything into (her husband hadn’t been allowed to have his own slice of birthday cake and only spoke, quietly, when spoken to). To be top man you have to have a First Lady who makes spaghetti bolognese and, no doubt, quilts, and ensures by force her husband doesn’t tell a soul he’s ever cooked or eaten anything dehydrated or even thought about anything to do with a goat and who knows not to join a floor where women parade their feathers jostling for the highest chair, drenching lesser ones in verbal hormones. And what of the guy whose birthday it was? I think he spoke about work a bit. I can’t remember. And his wife, who’d had caterers provide the food, hadn’t been acknowledged as a woman at all.
First shots with the 40-150 lens...very happy with it. Here are 3 views from the top of Wat Arun, so famous it appears on the Thai 10 baht coin. it has a very distinctive contour due to the khmer style towers which ressemble the mount Meru (like at Angkor Wat in cambodia). The central prang is over 80m tall having been extended upwards. It is covered with millions of pieces of seashells and broken chinese porcelain which was used in trade ships as ballast, and abandoned here. Right now it's being restored (hence the scaffolding in first photo) but parts that have been cleaned look fabulous.
here's a good example of why I like this lens so much: The sharp focus of the detail on top of one of the smaller prangs contrasting with the blurry view in the distance, makingit seem nearer than it is.
"Obsession, lust, a bit of espionage, a lot of laughs, and some serious questions of ethics and working conditions the subject is that gadget in your pocket, on your desk or in your hand in many ways you’ve come to love and even need it and the human costs that went into making it. All questions raised by one man, sitting at a table for an hour-and-a-half monologue titled, ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’" (Source: PBSNewsHour 2011 np).
Original mikedaisey.blogspot.co.uk/p/monologues.html
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Legoing by Ellie Bird
Scott Smith stands among 5,000 poinsettias that he and his crew have just prepared for sale at the Flower Farm on Carmel Road in Millville and J&S Agway on Route 49 in Bridgeton. It's worth an early trip to the Flower Farm to see the sea of red before too many plants are sold.
I wish I had about a 10-12mm lens for this. You are looking at about one third of the plants.
A split ND filter might have helped, as there was a distinct line of shadow in front of Scott. I applied a gradient filter in CS4 to try to even things out a bit without makingit appear too unnatural.
Oliver Barratt studied sculpture at Falmouth School of Art, graduating in 1985. Soon afterwards he started a teaching programme for adults with learning difficulties at a residential home near Sevenoaks while establishing his first sculpture studio.
In 1990 Barratt was awarded the Henry Moore Fellowship at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and in the same year he won his first major public commission.
Just got it! fascinating, if you're the kind of person who has to know how everything is made. Machinery obsession runs in my family.
Chainsaw, bicycle, camphor wood, dimensions variable installation view at Making it exhibition.
Part performance, part design project, this on-going series of works has been realised in a number of locations over the past decade. The sculpture gives the chainsaw motor at its heart a double life as a device for chopping and subsequently transporting logs.
Moth-eaten sweater and darning 30 x 40 x 3cm.
Celia Pym works in knitting and embroidery, making repair work visible in order to highlight process and to embody notions of care. She is interested in how things are made and how they work. She describes darning as a tender act which helps us to understand the things we mend. The act of mending and caring is central to Pym's artistic practice and is also a crucial element of her other vocation - Pym is a qualified nurse.
This series of photographs came out of Humphrey's recent trip to Cuba. He first visited the island when studying there in 2000 and was interested to see what had changed in the last 15 years.
Born out of Heatherwick's ambition to make a piece of furniture from the traditional techniques of metal spinning. Conventionally used to make things like lampshades and drums. The resulting chair is a genuinely useful, comfortable piece of design that looks nothing like a traditional chair and instead uses the language of goblet making , appearing to be something more like a vase , vessel or cup.
The chair is a play object as well as a beautiful thing. It moves, rocks and spins around.