I’m not sure how well you can see these from the ground, but adorning the corners of this building are some great pharaohs, complete with headdresses and wings:
As a . . .
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Way over on West 59th Street between 10th and 11th is this great little Parks Department rec center, dwarfed on all sides by ultra-modern glass-curtain highrises.
Once a bath house, the rec center now houses a public pool. What I especially love about this building are the two aquatic sculptures in the upper . . . I generally hate working in Times Square for the obvious reasons, but I have to admit there’s something about it that I find intriguing. Times Square is probably the most carefully studied property in New York City. Every single inch has been examined and re-examined by developers trying to add a few more video billboards, or another theme restaurant (you . . . I was in midtown today scouting around East 48th Street, an area with a ton of archetypal New York hotels (The Waldorf-Astoria, The Intercontinental, The Benjamin, The Marriott East Side, etc., etc., etc.). I happened to notice something on the W Hotel at 541 Lexington that I haven’t ever before: elephants!
. . . I was taking pictures on an empty side-street in Queens near the East River when I suddenly noticed these five guys staring at me from the back of a truck.
Haha, OK, it’s obvious in my pictures that it’s just a very high quality photo, but at the time, thinking . . . I love that thousands of New Yorkers go about their business every day unaware of the countless eyes watching from the skies. Case in point: this building I noticed while scouting a rooftop near Wall Street:
They’re virtually impossible to see from the street, but lining the top floor is a . . . |
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