Random Pictures Thread

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Watched Elf on Christmas Eve, after seeing so many of Arn's pictures i felt right at home!!
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Earl @Greenacres2 - my fave comedy holiday movie. I know I posted some shoot location in some threads of the movie “Elf”. Well, have your wife take a look at this and this location always make me chuckle as I use to work several blocks from here and sometimes (if I don’t walk) take the cross town bus to get to west end where I use to live. This is the exact subway station (23rd Street and corner of Broadway) where Buddy found all the chewing gum and if you remember he was pulling them off the railings to try them out.
South-west corner is the Flat Iron building and it is under restoration.

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Adjacent to the subway stop and the Flat Iron Building is Madison Square Park (below) and that new thin vertical building being constructed now blocks the sight line/view of the Empire State Building.

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The last 2 photo’s is the one of the few “crossroads in NYC”- Broadway and 5th Avenue. This is looking south. If you go up Broadway towards the north end about 19 blocks, you will end up in Time Square. If you go up 5th Avenue north about 10 blocks, you will end up at The Empire State Building (which was used as the revolving door scene on the “Elf” movie):

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Gdurfey said:
Arn, I have always enjoyed your writing, stories, connections, etc and all with the pictures to help tell the stories.

I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to write and share the above. i look forward to sharing it with you. May not need someone to lean on but would greatly appreciate the offered support of a friend. Thank you!!
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Garry @Gdurfey - the inspiration from all of this actual comes from “A True Texas Fact” which is hosted by our own @woodman6415 and to continued the spirit brought forth by the late Kevin. It is a well categorized and well modeled forum that taps into everything and everyone regardless of what you do and where you come from. I am by no means trying to “push” where I live and most of the content is just to share with you all my “neck of the woods”, show folks the older side of where I live before they disappear as the fast pace and constant change starts to impact the city scape and due to other facets, and to highlight the better attractions and some “off the beaten path”. We are fortunate to have a milieu of museums and I showcased somethings here that can be possibly be useful for members here whether it is for inspiration or for whatever reasons.

In any event, if you and Denise ever make it here, a tour of lower Manhattan, the 9/11 museum tickets, drinks & dinner on me (checked my account and it looks promising for high end fast food :sarcastic:). PM incoming Garry……

Arn
 
There are some real cool art work commissioned by the MTA in the NYC Subway. These are by local artist Keith Godard who did a series of “hats” that was fashioned by folks “in the know/now”
that represent the scene in 23rd Street as this was a cultural district.

Here is a link for more details:
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Memories of Twenty-Third Street

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The hat photo’s are only some on the R train uptown side and there is opposite side which is the downtown side that I didn’t get to photographed. The hat mosaic has a reference at the bottom tile of who the hat represented and belonged to. The second purpose of this art was to be used as a photographic portrait as you pose underneath the hat while awaiting for the subway to come into the station.

Can you find Li’l Mikey’s hat?

What hat would you wear out of these?

Here are some pics. that I consolidated in grid format:

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The photo below is across the tracks of the other series that I didn’t get to:

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The 2 below are examples of who they belonged to- P.T. Barnum (top hat) and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt:

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Hotel Pennsylvania at 401 7th Avenue (15 Penn Plaza) was completed in 1919 by notable Architect’s McKim, Mead & White (built some of the finest historical buildings in NYC) in the Neo-Renaissance style. It was 22 stories high and was the largest hotel at that time (the city’s 4th largest until it’s closure in 2020). It went through the grind of preservation battles and unsuccessful, the building was demolished in 2023. For over a century this building stood tall right across Madison Square Garden and for the first time, the Empire State Building is visible- but, not for long as as a 68 story tower will be in place. It’s sad when the city loses one of it’s own iconic building’s that has been part of the old NYC cityscape and history and how a sizable void is left in the lot, but it paves way for the time being of the visible sight line on the Empire State Building. What amazes me is how amazing of an engineering feat to demo this building and kept every perimeter building in place.

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Here is one in black and white of the above subject and a bonus 2nd photo below of the Main NY Post Office, Moynihan Train Hall and The Edge at the background (Hudson Yards):

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Arn213 said:
Here is one in black and white of the above subject and a bonus 2nd photo below of the Main NY Post Office, Moynihan Train Hall and The Edge at the background (Hudson Yards):

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All great photos Arn! Love the detailed design elements on the old post office including the words etched into the facade. “Neither rain, nor snow, nor heat, etc.”Seems like it’s written a little more dramatic than what I remember hearing over the years?😀

Happy New Year to you!
 
As we close the year, here are some parting photo’s at my end from the “Highline” into “Pier 51” west end of Manhattan:

Gasenvoort Peninsula / Gasenvoort Beach (Pier 52) at Hudson River Park. The skeletal structure outlines the original pier structure.

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and sunset to close off the year…….

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Thanks again for the wonderful pictures Arn!

I presume you are headed to Times Square and we can expect some "live" shots of the merriment as the night proceeds? :lol2: :scare3:
 
trc65 said:
Thanks again for the wonderful pictures Arn!

I presume you are headed to Times Square and we can expect some "live" shots of the merriment as the night proceeds? :lol2: :scare3:
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You know I would take one for the team and the weather today was actually very warm this time of year- very warm. So those tourist who will part take on the New Eve’s Time Square Celebration will have a very comfortable time (suppose to rain). But, that place is worst than a three ring circus this time of year and us locals don’t part take, well not unless friends or family members come to town or some stoopid friend(s) wants to relieve what it was like when we were at the prime age! :sarcastic: What happens when you had your share of drinks, waiting on that pile of people for hours before the ball drop?
 
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Let me try this and see if this will work okay. We had soft snow and cloudy weather, but it gives way for an opportunity to do b & w photo’s. I did a sequence shot as best as I could in photo strip format. Not everything in the subway is underground and the older tracks in certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Manhattan has elevated tracks. This scene starts at Williamsburg, Brooklyn where the subway track is elevated, then over the Williamsburg Bridge and descend underground into Delancey Street Station at the Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Each photo was about 6mb and I had to reduce it several times to fit the format we use here- so it will have lower resolution and might be grainy:

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My favorite time to photograph is when it is cold out, cloudy, raining and slushy from the snow. It is similar and parallel to putting a film finish (or moistened with water) on a piece of raw wood. The details just become’s much more enhanced and a type of natural rendering that happens that color photographs can’t capture (IMHO).

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Alton Bay Seaplane Base Ice Runway opened for the season this morn. Last few years it never opened because the ice never got to 12” minimum. It’s the only FAA approved ice runway in the continental Us. It’ll be noisy around here for awhile.

Bubblers keep the water from freezing to protect the dock pylons.

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