Thanks Arn. Your excellent pics make me wish I'd spent more time poking around over in Brooklyn.
Earl @Greenacres2 - one of my favorite holiday movies and brings a lot of memories watching it when my kids were younger. I probably have photo’s of the locations her where they shot it in NYC. The bridge you are thinking of is in Central Park- that is the “Pine Bank Arch Bridge” (West 62nd St.). One of the few remaining cast iron bridge in Central Park- 4 or 5 left.
Yes, I remember that building and I passed by it actually not to long ago when I saw a concert a Jazz concert in Columbus Circle. Very unique building with the base being a different period in style of Architecture and in contrast with the new glass Architecture built on top of it. There is this movement of this type of mix as there is not that many opportunity with all the block/lot in Manhattan being taken, so building up on top of existing low rise building or even mid rise is a thing.
I, for one, thoroughly enjoy your cityscape pics, and encourage you to continue posting. Good for all of us to post a few pics from time to time of our own “local” venues. Chuck
Thank you and will do Chuck. I will post some eateries as well- there are tons of restaurant’s, cafe’s, bars, etc.. But the really, really good one’s that establish both superb service, exceptional ambience and excellent food is few and far in between. You can have 10 restaurants in one block and you will be lucky if one of them makes the grade. The competition is that high and all of these restaurant will at times fight for your patronage- they will have a host out and billboard deals in the sidewalks that will try to get your business. It’s a jungle out there. The really better restaurants that aren’t “pushed up” by Instagram or any social medias are very hard to get into, meaning you need reservations months or half a year to get in. There are “hole in the walls” that are bang for your buck. There is this growing trend to that restaurants who aren’t fully establish, meaning they don’t really have a head chef or have grading, thinks they can charge the same as the more establish restaurants. They will charge say $ 59 for a NY strip steak the same price as a more well established restaurant that has better ambience, history and service.
You can see better what this area looks during the day- lot’s mixed used going on. The A framing blue roofing, that is a sports park. They are parks within parks and they have continued maintenance and there is traffic at the lower level and mid level. So they have to have that bigger maintenance yard out of the open in the middle of everything- also it is out there when we get the winter snow.
Indeed. I got him to take me to that walk a couple of times. Very nice.
We were hoping to stop in this summer but things did not pan out. Some day I'll write a song about the rolling fog of a white dirt road. Only thing missing from perfect is a pond and a trout stream from your pictures. Loved the views.
I would welcome the sound of crickets and for the time to go slow. If silence gets the best of me, I will just take out my acoustic and play what comes to mind and be inspired by what is around me……..strange thing is a change of environment your mind set triggers set of imagination and inspiration because you are someplace fresh and new- like having a clean slate to be able to write instrumentals, songs or what have you. Just like painting. That is why some folks or famous writers, poets , musicians come to the urban jungle here to write about profound subjects as it is different where they came from and it triggers fresh ideas because they are in a new scenery or change of scenery. It is like the story of Vincent Van Gogh when he spent several years (27 months?) in the south of France from Arles and Saint Remy de Provence to be inspired to paint new things because the light and color hits the fields in a different manner compare to where he lived. He painted about 350 or so and some of his important contributions (some folks call it masterpieces) great works were born from being there: “Bedroom in Arles, Starry Night over the Rhone, Vase with 12 Sunflowers, Van Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear”……to name a few.
sweetest corn we've ever had comes from MIssissippi River bottom land in Illinois.
