Oh! THAT's Pie & Thighs!

S5th

End

Weekend photo walks in Williamsburg are so crowded with picture snappers that it's almost embarrassing. In some spots you have to actually wait on a line to take your picture. This is one such spot. I actually left and came back but the sun had moved too far west. I may give this another try in black and white or just wait for a better sky and go back to try again.

The shining throne

I've heard of green buildings but...

Park Ave. in the upper 20's. It's just insulation before they put the actual face on but still really striking.

2Forty

240 Park Ave.
I has a really big feel to it. Maybe that's just the surroundings.

Renovate store to pizzeria

This is down on Bedford near N4th, part of that block with the bagel store. Looks like new pizza.

Passing STER

Compositionally those letters on the left have a lot of pull. I have a whole series of these people walking across the scene but ultimately I think I'm just standing in the wrong spot for this to work really well.
Kent Ave.

Walking and reading

Williamsburg Bridge

The bar crowd

Greenpoint Ave.
I had to use the sidewalk as the tripod so it looks a little like I was passed out drunk when I took this picture. I took a ton of them but still couldn't quite get the flashing BAR sign right.

Looming face

I haven't read anything about this building going up on South 4th and Roebling but it seems like it has the opportunity to present a pretty dramatic face given the way this little street opens it up to a nice square view from the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Mean girls

I don't actually know these girls or whether they're mean, but if you saw the movie you know what I'm talking about.
Lower East Side

How 'bout that

27 responds to his critic here.

So apparently it actually is the case that someone from Minnesota came all the way to New York and is now acting on a 7 year old grudge from when 27 was 14 years old.

What's most annoying is that in this case, he saw it before I did, so I only have the overwritten one.

Where??

61-77 Wythe Avenue/104-122 N. 12 St. is what the sign says, but I don't see anything at that intersection that even looks like a storefront. I'll go back and see if I can find the spot, but seriously, there aren't even really any windows to try to peek into.

LES flashback

Blue sky

LES

Circles

Loading zone

South 5th
Domino Buiilding

Multiple Sarcasms

Another big movie being shot on Berry around N8th where Teddy's is. Multiple Sarcasms (http://imdb.com/title/tt0984210/) has a pretty good cast as far as celebrity spotting goes. Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino, Stockard Channing, Dana Delany, Mario Van Peebles

The tools of progress

This is the condo they're building next to where I live. Eventually I'll have a really complete soup-to-nuts series.

Snake road

Lower East Side housing viewed from the Williamsburg Bridge. I'm not totally sold on this composition but the road loses some of its snakiness when I crop out the street light on the right.

Rescue me

Well, at least someone's finding a use for that building.

Maggie's Place

I almost never go out in midtown so all those Irish pubs are a mystery to me. When I'm in midtown it's on the weekend so these places are empty. Who goes to them, tourists? Turns out, on a Thursday starting at happy hour the place is packed with suits. It's 47th near Madison, so what's that advertising?

Looks like our man 27 has caught a beef

I saw that one of the Deuce Seven pieces had been defaced so I went out to make sure I had a picture of that big one before it too was gone (again).

So this guy is accusing him of snitching in 2000? The Village Voice article said he's 21, so in 2000 he'd have been 14... and living in Minneapolis. Are we to believe that a childhood friend has come to New York from Minnesota to harrass the artist by writing lame-ass initials on top of all the pieces? Clearly I'm missing something.


This would appear to be the response:

While out I saw that others, though not all of them, had also been defaced by the same guy.

This one says "go home" which makes more sense to me in terms of why someone would resent him. It's pretty audacious to come to Brooklyn and write "Minneapolis" on the wall and be hailed as the new kind of NYC street art. If nothing else, this shows how silly the whole "splasher" drama was. Street Art by its nature is transient and contains elements of this kind of over-writing one-upsmanship. The artist is surely aware of this.

I wasn't the only one who wanted to grab a shot before it's gone...

Party hats

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Everybody's heard about the Word

It's not exactly breaking news at this point that there's a new bookstore on Franklin near Noble in Greenpoint. I have a before picture somewhere but I'll wait until the neighboring storefront is also occupied before I go hunt for it.

Subway embrace

E Train, 42nd Street

Downtown W hotel

Construction has required a brace be set up to make sure 120 Greenwich doesn't fall over into the hole they're digging for the new W Hotel. The winter sun drew some cool lines.

Memorial at De Marco's

Sullivan and Houston, where that shooting took place.

War anniversary candle light vigil in Union Square

Interesting test of the new camera in low light. I'm pretty pleased. Wide shots like this are probably not the best way to shoot this event, but a good test for the camera.

Pinwheels and water tower

Soho

Ground Zero: Land of the cranes

Lower Broadway ripped

The few blocks of Broadway where the new transit hub is going in is seriously torn up. It's amazing how a neighborhood can survive terrorist destruction only to be decimated by Port Authority construction.

Frank's place

I haven't seen much about it but the site of the downtown Frank Gehry building is making progress. From when it was a parking lot last May: http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2006/05/franks-place.html

New Yorkers are happy

This is at the end of the Brooklyn Bridge. I don't know what they're smiling about.

Fire escape equinox

I think buildings should be described as having an equinox - when the casts a shadow at the opposite angle of the stairs on the fire escape.
Chinatown

Canal crowds

The latest in my ongoing effort to take a picture of what it's like to walk down Canal Street. I don't particularly like this photo because it's not of anything but I do like how it shows the mix of people.

Local - coming soon

Sullivan Street near Houston. I happened by just as he was closing the gate. He says they open on Friday after one more health inspection. Since I was on the way to Porto Rico on Bleeker to buy this week's coffee beans, I was excited to see another Starbucks alternative coming soon.

Suspended sleep

JFK - But this isn't a snow storm strandee, this is just a regular plane waiter.

Window shopping

Even from across the street she was strikingly pretty so you can't really blame these guys.

What glove?

These guys play here all the time and I've taken a few pictures of them before. I don't know what they're talking about but out of context, as a stand-alone photo there does seem to be a bit of controntation there.

Florida moon

The noiseyness of this one isn't entirely the fault of the camera because I took it with the new one before I learned how to set the long exposure. Still I like the texture of it.

Colorbox

That's the Whitney on 42nd.
I had a hard time trying to figure out where to put the colors in terms of framing. The midtown palette is so earthy and gray that the colors really jump.

Red hat

Manhattan Ave. Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Sunny side

Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Snow lined

I don't know why I'm so captivated by subway stairs. G Train Nassau Ave.

Skating spectating

Rock Center

27 egg hunt

Can you spot the 27?

Box and knocker

Winter light

Everyone was out this weekend taking pictures in the bright winter light.

Outreach

More reaching trees.

This one is just a picture of the nice couple...

Maker's, rocks

This is with the macro feature of my new little camera. I think it came pretty well even if I did end up spending too much time wrestling unnecessarily with the color.

Flight of the Conchord shoot

Up by the tennis courts on Berry. I only find a TV show called "Flight of the Conchords" which is also the name of a BBC radio show.

27 Easter egg hunt

I assume it's part of his point but it's actually fun stumbling upon this guy's work in random places.

New Japanese place on N6th to open Thursday

Remember this place on N6th?

Today there was a guy on a ladder outside. I asked what they were putting in. "A Japanese place." When do they open? "Thursday." He even held the door open so I could see inside. After he closed the door I took a picture through a hole in the papered window.

By the way, they're hiring.

Reaching out

At first I thought the bending tree was bending away from her but then I realized it was bending toward the fellow farther down the bench. Well... I don't know, you decided. I thought I saw something.

Nita Nita

Remember that space on Wythe and N8th we've been watching? It finally opene as a tapas place.

If you view the original size of this in Flickr you can read the menu/prices.

Splasher: street art avenger?

I know the splasher thing is played out but when I saw this today I thought of my comments when I first saw the hand painted Dewars ads going up on this block in particular - specifically that street artists would surely not stand for such a flagrant example of bought-and-paid-for public space on a block so dedicated to public art in public space. Anyway, it turns out the artists never defaced the ad, but the splasher did. Go figure.

Brick in the wall

Lipstick Jungle shooting

It's a new Candace Bushnell series. Keep an eye out for Brooke Shields maybe.

Cyn Lounge

I didn't recall seeing this before on the outside of the place at Bedford and N5th. Turns out they have new owners and actually held a contest to select this logo.
Meanwhile, remember that fuss on Curbed about whether nice cars parked next to junky cars was really a sign of the changing neighborhood? How about a Lotus parked on Bedford?

We now return to our regularly scheduled blogging

I still have some Bike Week pictures I'll be adding to my Flickr stream and then I'll post some highlights here but rather than get bogged down in a backlog I'm going to jump right back into NYC Photoblogging as long as I have the photos to share.

On the road again

I'm away for the week. I have a few NYC photos that haven't been posted yet, but it's more likely that I'll be posting Florida/motorcycle/Daytona bike week photos this week. Thanks for your indulgence.

Broken windows

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Recycled water

To me this is about the color of the truck in contrast with the surrounding colors, but I'm not sure it's jumping quite as much as I want.

Messed up face

It's a water tower.

Marked door

I took this for the somewhat ridiculous reason that the wall was green and so was the hardware on the door. In the end I didn't like the color because the shadow makes the snow a weird blue and the green isn't a significant as when I first looked at it. I do like the composition though, so I wanted more contrast/prominence in the big tag next to the door. This time using the channel mixer made for the black and white I was looking for better than the desaturate feature (which is the second photo.)

Peeler guy

Difficult light, but I feel pretty good about how it balanced in the end.

500 looms

This felt more profound standing in front of it than it does right here. I'm not sure if I lost something in the framing or what.

McGuinness funny pages

Near the BQE

Balducci's coming soon

Here's an unexpected plywood report. This is in the Delta terminal at JFK. I guess it makes sense. How many times do you leave the city and the people you're visiting say, "Bring bread" or something like that.

Tribeca changing

It's really amazing to look at how much the view from Tribeca has changed. If you're familiar with it, the building on the right is new and all the stuff in the middle behind the trees is new. I'm taking this shot from Greenwich St. Of course, that's the World Financial Center in the background. It reminds me that I have to come down here when I have more time. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a new neighborhood, but it definitely has a lot of new stuff.

Turnover on Manhattan Ave?

Y'know that deli on the corner of Manhattan and Norman right at the Subway entrance? It looks like it's closing. I'm out of town for a week so I can't follow up, but on Friday it looked like they were clearing the place out. Either I caught them in the middle of spring cleaning or they're closing. Personally, I go to the deli a little ways down the block. This one has some cute features but it always feels a little grubby.