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This pedestrian walkway offers spectacular views of Downtown Manhattan, the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s a favorite destination for joggers, walkers and Rollerbladers, but it also offers a quiet atmosphere for those who prefer to just sit, chat and enjoy the view. The Promenade is lined with grand town houses and mansions, and is part of Brooklyn’s first Historic Preservation District.(nycgo.com)
Stretching across the East River, the iconic Brooklyn Bridge opened up back in 1883 to carry traffic (nonautomotive at the time) between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. One of the most recognizable parts of the New York City skyline, the bridge has been featured in movies and on television shows, and is a real piece of New York City history. A stroll across the elevated pedestrian walkway provides a true New York City experience. The Manhattan-side entrance is at Park Row and Centre Street, across from City Hall Park, east of City Hall; over on the Brooklyn side, enter at Cadman Plaza East or where Boerum Place meets Tillary Street.(nycgo.com)
Brooklyn Heights Promenade
This pedestrian walkway offers spectacular views of Downtown Manhattan, the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s a favorite destination for joggers, walkers and Rollerbladers, but it also offers a quiet atmosphere for those who prefer to just sit, chat and enjoy the view. The Promenade is lined with grand town houses and mansions, and is part of Brooklyn’s first Historic Preservation District. (www.nycgo.com/venues/brooklyn-heights-promenade)
I’ve recently been doing a lot of work for the talented team over at NYC&Company which is the official tourism board of New York City. I was hired to visit several restaurants and shops around the Upper West Side to show off some cool spots for people to shop, eat, and hang out.
To read the rest of this post and view a bunch more photos please check out this post on my blog.
33 Thomas Street is a 550-foot windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan, which you may recognize from Mr. Robot or The Intercept. Formerly known as the AT&T Long Lines Building, it is a nuclear-bomb-proof marvel of Brutalist architecture.
Built for Marchitecture. Here’s a photo for comparison.
This 18-acre lake—the largest freshwater lake in the City—is known for its high density of yellow perch, as well as eight other species of fish, including largemouth bass, common carp and brown bullhead. The lake is surrounded by a variety of habitats, including grassy flats and rocky wooded areas, making it not just a great seasonal fishing area but also a prime spot to explore the local ecology.
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Sunset by Roosevelt Island on the East River of Manhattan, NY,
Once closed to the public, today Roosevelt Island is home to a residential community and a number of parks and landmarks. At the island’s southern end, the Louis Kahn–designed Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park offers public programming and family-friendly events. Also in the historical vein: the Renwick Ruin, a former smallpox hospital; the Octagon tower, the remnants of an insane asylum; and, on the northern tip, a 19th-century lighthouse anchoring a park from where visitors can get wide-angle views of NYC.
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Support our artists!
Let Hair Down, a.k.a. Kanami Kusajima, one of the most amazing artists you will ever see in Washington Square Park, where I once called home and where I got my start learning photography many, many years ago. Honestly, she is one of the most fun and engaging performers I've seen in a long time. Her dedication to her craft and the joy she exudes during her seemingly daily dance performances in all extremes of weather (she recently performed in a snow storm!) and performing and advocacy in the face of stern opposition is a role model for all artists.
I have since moved away from my city, but visit as often as possible and I noticed that somethings have changed in the park over the years. It feels safer and cleaner! That's a plus, but it appears to have come at the price of the park losing a lot of the vibrancy and character it was once known for and the type of park I remember from the early 2000s. It's relatively more sterile, if you will. On the relatively warm, late December day that this set of photos was taken, it was kind of hard to find many artists, buskers, and street performers.
I mentioned "stern opposition" because if you take the time to follow Let Hair Down's socials and go down the research rabbit hole it will lead you, her experiences in NYC confirms that something has changed in, not only my beloved Washington Square Park over the course of the last 15-20 or so years, but cities everywhere: artists, buskers, and street performers being pushed out for many reasons, intentional or unintentional, such as through local ordinances, being priced out, etc. It's a problem everywhere, but Washington Square Park is one of the most visible and iconic cultural landmarks where this is happening. It cannot afford to lose its artists. So no matter if it's New York City, San Francisco, or wherever you live, please support your local artists!
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The country's first urban Audubon Center, located at the Lincoln Road–Ocean Avenue entrance to the park. The first Boathouse was a rustic structure, built in 1876; the current Beaux Arts building replaced it in 1905. In 2002, the state-of-the-art Audubon Center was added to promote wildlife preservation and nature education. (nycgo.com)
Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal has many secrets (just for starters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his own underground passageway that led to the Waldorf Astoria hotel), but the Whispering Gallery is its most romantic. This unmarked archway, located in front of the Oyster Bar & Restaurant, possesses a mystifying acoustic property: when two people stand at diagonal arches and whisper, they can hear each other's voices "telegraphed" from across the way. According to rumor, jazz legend Charles Mingus liked to play under the arches. Today, though, the Whispering Gallery is more popular for murmured marriage proposals. ~ www.nycgo.com/slideshows/new-york-secrets/3
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I'm excited that @nycgo asked me to be a guest judge of an @instagram contest they're holding for NYC Restaurant Week. If you're in NYC until the end of this week, shoot an image of a dish at a participating restaurant and tag it #NYCRestaurantWeek and next week I'll be choosing three winners (prize is $500 in gift cards), good luck! You can see participating restaurants at www.nycgo.com
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The Vessel at Hudson Yards finally reopened to the public at the end of October 2024 after three long years. I finally got a chance to visit this New York City gem for some night photography. At night, this landmark turns into something out of some futuristic, sometimes alien, science fiction dream.
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This woman was sitting at the edge of a patch of shade, in the outdoor section of a small deli/restaurant called Arte around the corner, on Columbus between 72nd and 73rd St.
I couldn't tell whether she was writing a journal entry, a short story, or a letter to a friend; but she seemed very peaceful and relaxed...
Note: this photo was published in a Dec 8, 2008 blog article entitled "How You Can Write For Magazines - Part Two." It was also published in a Jul 29, 2009 blog titled "Consejos para escribir cada vez mejor." And it was published in a Linux Gazette blog titled "autorzy tłumaczeń." More recently, it was published in an Aug 23, 2009 blog titled "How to Work Around Writer's Block." And it was published in a Sep 1, 2009 blog titled "Matador Members Reach Semi-Final in Trazzler’s NYCGO Writing Contest." More recently, it was published in an Oct 2, 2009 blog titled "‘Novel’ workshop affords journalism students inside look." And it was published in an Oct 19, 2009 blog titled "I Wanna Write like Nora Roberts: 7 Tips for Prolific Writers." Moving on: it was also published in a Dec 10, 2009 blog titled "Creative Writers, See How Much You Know on This Quiz."
Moving into 2010, the photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Feb 2010) Squidoo blog titled "Who Is Nora Roberts?." And it was published in a Mar 21, 2010 blog titled "La base científica (2ª parte): estudio de la Universidad de Texas sobre el poder curativo de la escritura." It was also published in an Apr 6, 2010 blog titled "Writer's Back!" and an Apr 22, 2010 blog titled "Why Do You Write?" And it was published in a May 29, 2010 blog titled "Guest Post: How to handle multiple priorities," by Luc Reid. It was also published in a Jul 11, 2010 blog titled "The Secret to Success."
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in an undated (mid-Jan 2011) blog titled "8 Tips for Writing a Killer SEO Cover Letter." It was also published in a Jan 15, 2011 blog titled "Learning SEO to help your Website succeed online." And it was published in a Jan 30, 2011 blog titled "7 Tricks to Write Faster, Better, And More Insightful Articles … Right Now."
The photo was also published in a Feb 1, 2011 blog titled "Power Thinking vs. Positive Thinking." It was also published in a Feb 9, 2011 blog titled "10 Ways to Build Your Blog Readership." And it was published in a Mar 1, 2011 blog titled " The (semi-)mobile workspace." It was also published in an Apr 12, 2011 blog titled "5 "Tries" That Get Writers Stuck." And it was published in an Oct 13, 2011 blog titled "Skrivprocessen - vad ska man tänka på?" It was also published in a Nov 21, 2011 blog titled "Five Online Aids for the Serious Writer." And it was published in a Dec 4, 2011 blog titled, simply, "Writing."
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a Feb 19, 2012 blog titled "7 Tricks to Write Faster, Better, And More Insightful Articles … Right Now." And it was published in an undated (early Jun 2012) blog titled "Self-Improvement." It was also published in an undated (late Jun 2012) blog titled "Novel Writing Project: The Quiet Cambodian," as well as a Jun 22,2012 blog titled "How to Successfully Set your Blog up for Guest Posting." And it was published in a Sep 27, 2012 blog titled "Huffington Post: blogger open source vs l'ipocrisia del sig. Gubitosa," as well as a Sep 29, 2012 blog titled "How To Get Your Guest Posts Accepted By Top Blogs," and an Oct 22, 2012 blog titled "Ask the Survival Mom: Answers to some of your questions." It was also published in an undated (mid-Nov 2012) blog titled "10 Stvari Koje Svaka Mama Treba da Ima na Umu."
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in an Apr 8, 2013 blog titled "Flex Your Abdominal Muscles: Top 10 Ways to Score Sexy Abs." It was also published in an Apr 11, 2013 blog titled "Fitness Scholarships: Acquiring And Keeping These people."
Moving into 2015, the photo was published in a Jan 21, 2015 blog titled "4 Easy Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block." And it was published in an Aug 2, 2015 blog titled "On Maintaining Personal Brand as a Software Engineer."
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On Oct 3, 2009 I made some editing improvements to the photo. Primarily, I reduced the extent of shadows in the area behind the writer-woman. I also made a slight increase to the saturation of the skin tones in her face (and the other woman's back), as well as the overall "vibrancy" of the non-skin-tone colors in the picture. Not a huge change, but I think it's a little better this way... of course, I should have done all of this when I first took the photo, but at that point (a year ago), I didn't know how. Things get better, little by little...
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This is part of an evolving photo-project, which will probably continue throughout the summer of 2008, and perhaps beyond: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.
For the most part, I've deliberately avoided photographing bums, drunks, drunks, and crazy people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ...
The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, *far* more people who are *not* so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them.
J’avais envie de commencer ce 1er séjour à New-York en admirant le paysage urbain de Manhattan à bord d’une croisière.
Passer sous le Brooklyn Bridge, voir des sites emblématiques tels que l’Empire State Building et la Statue de la Liberté.
WMATA Foggy Bottom / GWU Station, NW, Washington DC on Monday night, 6 June 2022 by Elvert Barnes Photography
IT'S TIME FOR NYC PRIDE Billboard
FIND WAYS TO CELEBRATE at www.nycgo.com/pride
SIGNS OF GAY PRIDE 2022 Series
Elvert Barnes NYC GAY PRIDE at elvertxbarnes.com/nyc-gay-pride
Elvert Barnes GAY PRIDE 2022 at elvertxbarnes.com/gaypride
Elvert Barnes RIDE-BY SHOOTING / WMATA docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/wmata
Return Home After Catering @ John F. Kennedy Center
Elvert Barnes June 2022 at elvertxbarnes.com/2022