Under the Western Sky



















Out here in the Big Empty we sure have some sky.

West 5oth Street NYC

I may have been standing in the center of 5th Avenue when I took this picture. I'm not sure, but it was near there anyway. Been wondering what that guy was packing.

Under the Marcy Avenue Station



















The J, M, and Z subway lines run over the Williamsburg Bridge and the first stop in Brooklyn is this elevated station. Very loud under here when the trains roll in and out of the station, and on the street level it seems all most surreal. I can't image what it must be like to work in one of the businesses under here, would drive me crazy in a few days. Very interesting place. Here is a panoramic view.

People














Lots of people on the streets, everywhere, all the time.

Built Environment
























Lots of glass and steel. We had to take cover in the atrium of a building during an afternoon rain shower. Fed the birds trapped inside, watched the people, including a couple practicing dance steps while watching thier own reflections in the windows. Folks here don't seem to worry about what others will think about them, so they just carry on. It's very refreshing.

NY
















I keep thinking about these photos, and my mind keeps coming back to this one.

Under the Boardwalk















When your shoes get so hot you wish your time feet were fireproof, there may be a better escape than under the boardwalk. I'd suggest the mountains, with water so cold it's startling. This lovely little spot is not far away. This is where I spent the weekend floating around with the Wooly Bugger.

ESB




















This is what they call a landmark. Seems larger than most similar units in my neighborhood. We whimped out when it came to the queue, lunch seemed more important at the time, so we visited a hole in the wall occupied by three lunch nazis. Then passed the time eating in Herald Square.

WOW















So this is near one place we came up to street level. Around the corner from the job. This photo pretty much sums up what's going on in that part of town. Shot through the window from the lobby of the Trump Tower ....... golly!

Transport















So, the old Windows NT machine to the rescue. Maybe it's me, and mine, not them.

Made one trip standing at the very front of the first car, so I could take some snaps as we made our way through the labyrinth. I think this is the 57th Street Station.

Frustrated

Here we go again. I've been unable to load any images. Thought it was a problem using Google's Hello on my windows 98 machine, cause that hasn't been working for me for months. But now I'm unable to load any images from the windows xp machine in my office. I just get a "uploading image, please wait" message, then nothing happens. Also tried using the "add image" button on the blogger "create post" screen, and that looks good for a bit, but alas it fails as well. I guess that's what happens when a great idea like blogger gets popular, then can't support itself because of the demand, so gets bought up by Google (which was a great tool until commerce took over) and then promotes the shit out of it so every single human on the planet gives it a try, then they add more features, still all at no cost, but offer no form of support except letting users post messages to each other....the blind leading the blind....

Vanishing Point



Does this look like the focal point of one of the hippest spots on the planet? Turns out that it is, and this is where we started and ended our journey into the city each day.

Thinking back on it, seems like we were participating in a game of Zelda, or maybe Metriod. Thanks to our hosts, the approach and departure from these terminals were executed with great precision. Seems like folks raised on video games have brought those skills to riding the subway, making a game of finding exactly the correct position on the platform to wait for transport to the next level, repeating the process on the train, taking the correct seat in preparation for entry into the overworld.

By the way, you can even find local blogs organized by stops on the subway trains in NY.