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Lost in thought, I was walking along 2nd Ave in New York City when I turned onto 35th Street and literally stopped in my tracks.
There on the side of a brick building was the giant head of Salvadore Dali engaging me in an instant staring contest.
A battle of wills, so to speak.
I knew almost immediately I didn't stand a chance so instead I took out my iPhone.
Now he can engage you...
New York, USA
Part of the “Travelers” series by Bruno Catalano.
This is an inside joke (pun intended).
Last October I found myself back in front of this awesome streetart mural painted onto the gritty bricks of a corner store on 35th and 2nd in Manhattan.
I'd already snapped some shots of this piece in May when I first stumbled across it, but the light was different this time, and to be honest even if the light was the same I would have taken some more shots - it's that kind of art.
The weird crop of this image is a result of zooming into the shot on my iPhone to check the sharpness. When I saw how cool it looked I took a screen grab making this post a screen grab of an iPhone shot. How cool is that? (Plus I thought it was fitting follow up to my self portrait. Lol.)
The Copper (formerly known as American Copper Buildings and 626 First Avenue) are a pair of luxury residential skyscrapers in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The buildings were developed by JDS Development and were designed by SHoP Architects.
The two towers are designed such that they appear to "dance" with each other. They are connected by a bridge approximately 300 feet from the ground, three levels in height
View along the Park Avenue from the corner of East 37th Street with the 'MetLife Building' and the 'Grand Central Terminal' in the back
Blick entlang der Park Avenue von der Ecke der East 37th Street aus mit dem 'MetLife Building' und dem 'Grand Central Terminal' im Hintergrund
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View along the Park Avenue towards the 'MetLife Building' with the '101 Park Avenue' and the top of the 'Chrysler Building' on the right
Blick entlang der Park Avenue Richtung des 'MetLife Building' mit dem Gebäude '101 Park Avenue' und der Spitze des 'Chrysler Building' auf der rechten Seite
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Image I took after the sun set and most of the crowd who came to view and photograph Manhattanhenge had left. This was shot after the sun set precisely on the centerline of every street for what is locally called "Manhattanhenge". Normally, the tall buildings that line the gridded streets of New York City's tallest borough hide the setting Sun.
This effect makes Manhattan a type of modern Stonehenge, although only aligned to 28.9 degrees east of north. Were Manhattan's road grid perfectly aligned to east and west, the effect would occur on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox, March 20th and September 21st, the only two days that the Sun rises and sets due east and west.
John Pierpont Morgan or J.P. Morgan was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1837 to a very distinguished and well off New England family which already contributed greatly to the fledgling United States. Morgan’s mother Juliet Pierpont was related to James Pierpont who founded Yale University down in New Haven Connecticut. J.P.’s paternal grandfather founded Aetna Insurance right in Hartford where he was born. His father Junius Spencer Morgan operated a successful Hartford dry-goods company before becoming a partner in a London-based merchant banking firm. J.P. Morgan after finishing high school in Boston was off to Germany to the University of Göttingen in Germany. He returned to the states and trained as an accountant for New York banking firm of Duncan, Sherman and Company. J.P. then went to work with his dad and form an alliance with Philadelphia banker Drexel to form Drexel, Morgan and Company which would eventually be reorganized in 1895 as J.P. Morgan and Company one of the most powerful and important banking houses in the world that today still exists as J.P. Morgan Chase.
J.P. Morgan always had an eye on the big picture financially, after the Civil War he eyes the limping railroad industry. Morgan purchased many of the small railroad companies that were on the verge of collapse, restructured most of them imposing his own standards to the railroad industry. Among his railroad holdings were New York Central, the New Haven and Hartford, Pennsylvania, Southern and North Pacific Railroads. J.P. Morgan fostered the merger of the Edison General Electric Company with the Thompson-Houson Electric Company to form General Electric the new company would go on to become the primary electrical-equipment company of the United States. Morgan financed the creation of the Federal Steel Company which he would eventually merge with Carnegie Steel Company to form the power United States Steel Company (US Steel) which was the big gun in steel until foreign steel started entering this country.
Morgan though was also an ardent art collector and a collector of fine literature and books and particularly in the last two decades of his life it took a life of its own. J.P. would spend over $60 million dollars on art (~$900 million today). What was his taste so to speak? Well he put together a collection of Western civilization that spanned the full range of artistic and human achievement. The thousands of pieces he acquired ranged from bronzes, porcelains, watches, ivories, and paintings to furniture, tapestries, armor, and ancient Egyptian artifacts as well as the rare books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, and ancient artifacts. As his collection that were both in London and New York grew, in New York in particular it outgrew the treasure room of his basement at 219 Madison Avenue. J.P. Morgan commissioned the McKim, Mead and White Firm in 1902 to build the proper edifice for the collection. The design was undertaken by Charles McKim himself, who was instructed to build a separate magnificent building adjacent to his New York home to house the collections with the instructions from J.P. himself “I want a gem.”
When J.P. Morgan passed away in 1913, and estimated two thirds to three quarters of his $60 million dollar fortune was his collections of arts and books. His son J.P. Morgan Junior or Jack Morgan as he was know was left the ultimate disposition of his late father’s collections. The instructions in J.P. Morgan’s will? To make said objects “permanently available for the instruction and pleasure of the American people” So Jack did have to liquidate some of the art to pay taxes and maintain the liquidity of the estate, he donated large portions to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Connecticut, but the books, manuscripts and drawings remained intact and became the core of the Morgan’s collection. In 1924 Jack Morgan transferred the ownership to a board of trustees and established the Morgan as a public institution the Morgan Library & Museum . This image I have taken here is of the library, H. Siddons Mowbray's decorative scheme on the ceilings, the beautiful stacks, just a gem as J.P. had requested. The Morgan holds musical performances, and readings, there are ample activities throughout the year. A beautiful often overlooked museum just a few blocks east of the Empire State Building.
Taken with Olympus E-5 with Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD lens handheld processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Photo taken with my 300mm zoom lens from the bathroom of our suite at the Shelburne Hotel, Murray Hill, NYC.
A tour on 02.04.15 of some of the rooms of the De Lamar Mansion which currently houses the Polish Embassy.
The Joseph Raphael De Lamar House is a mansion located at 233 Madison Avenue at the corner of 37th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1902-05 and was designed by C. P. H. Gilbert in the Beaux-Arts style. The De Lamar Mansion marked a stark departure from Gilbert's traditional style of French Gothic architecture and was instead robustly Beaux-Arts, heavy with rusticated stonework, balconies and a colossal mansard roof.
Joseph Raphael De Lamar was a Dutch-born merchant seaman who made a fortune in mining and metallurgy during the California Gold Rush. He had this residence built as his entré into New York society. It was to be a family residence, but soon after it was built De Lamar and his wife divorced. The 1910 census taker found De Lamar in residence with his daughter Alice, by then 15, and nine servants, a typical ratio for the time. De Lamar died eight years later in 1918 at the age of 75. His obituary in The Boston Daily Globe described him as a "man of mystery" and an accomplished organist. He left an estate worth $29 million to his daughter, who continued living in the house for a short time before moving to an apartment at 740 Park Avenue.
The mansion was sold to the American Bible Society, and in 1923 the National Democratic Club purchased it for its headquarters. In 1973, the Republic of Poland bought the mansion for $900,000 to house its Consulate General in New York.
I wish I had taken a few shots from the rooftop in this direction with this light, but I didn't think to do it.
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Today, it was a clear and beautiful day, and around 8:10pm Manhattan flooded dramatically with sunlight just as the Sun set precisely on the centerline of every street for what is locally called "Manhattanhenge". Normally, the tall buildings that line the gridded streets of New York City's tallest borough hide the setting Sun.
This effect makes Manhattan a type of modern Stonehenge, although only aligned to 28.9 degrees east of north. Were Manhattan's road grid perfectly aligned to east and west, the effect would occur on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox, March 20th and September 21st, the only two days that the Sun rises and sets due east and west.
Friday (May 30th) is the prime day to view this effect however I will not be in the city so I took this image on Thursday and the effect was still rather dramatic and awe inspiring. There was quite the crowd of photographers (about 6 deep) on the Tudor City Place bridge over 42nd Street. You can see some of the photographers dodging traffic in the lower half of the image lined up on the center-line of 42nd Street.
It was when she asked, "How about Sticky's?"
That's when I knew she was the one for me.
You don't suggest Sticky's for a first date unless you know exactly who you are and how you want to spend your time on this planet.
Diving into a pile of sauce slathered chicken isn't for the shy. Taking a pile of bacon mac fries down to those little bits of crunchy tips isn't for the meek.
"Sticky's?" I replied. "Will you marry me?"
On 30th Street, between First and Second Avenues, in New York City. The architect is I. M. Pei. Completed in 1965, this two-building condominium complex has a total of 1,118 units.
As seen in "Gothamist," 11/7/22: gothamist.com/news/extra-extra-andy-byford-is-back-in-tow...
2 Park Avenue, built between 1926 and 1928, is a 28 story building in the area of Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City. The building is known for its exterior of brick and colored terracota and is a registered NYC landmark.
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I've shot Summit NYC from the reverse angle in UN Plaza and the building looks better here from a lower perspective.
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