Photography: Midtown Manhattan and Williamsburg Brooklyn 4/23/21
Photography: Midtown Manhattan and Williamsburg Brooklyn 4/23/21
The other day, a very dear friend came into town to visit me for a few hours before she headed up to Ossining to spend the weekend with a friend. We stopped for lunch first but after lunch, we walked from Penn Station up to Grand Central Terminal — and it gave me an opportunity to take photos of a variety of things that caught my eye. After my friend caught her Hudson Line MetroNorth train, I spent a bit of time in Bryant Park before heading to Clem’s for Guinness. All in all, a pretty good day, I might say. Check out photos below.
Caption: Throughout Midtown, there are a handful of these stores that sell tchotchkes and other random crap — and they all have various weird statues in front of them. With this particular store on Fifth Avenue in the 30s, the arrangement of statues have no particular rhyme or reason either. But they were photo worthy.
Caption: Hearts.
Caption: Reflections, Bryant Park.
Caption: Moon over Bryant Park.
Caption: Spring has sprung, Bryant Park.
Caption: Le Carrousel, Bryant Park.
Caption: Eagle, Grand Central Terminal.
Caption: I’ve passed these murals in the Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer Street G and L station countless times and for whatever reason I’ve never gotten a photo of them until now.
Caption: Future Cowboys! An impromptu portrait of Tractor’s Jason Pochapsky at Clem’s.
Caption: Goethe, Bryant Park. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Bryant Park and I’ve never noticed that there was a bust of the German philosopher. But as soon as I saw it, I was reminded of a particular scene I came across in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany almost a decade before: By the old opera house is a statue of the famed German philosopher — Frankfurt was his hometown, if I’m not mistaken — and underneath the statue, I saw two old drunks happily sharing a bottle of rotgut. The high and the low, indeed!
