“Photos from my first visit to New York City in August 1998, several years before I made the city my home.”
From NYC: First Impressions, posted by David Cole on 12/30/2008 (68 items)
- Soon after emerging from the High Street station on the subway, one is greeted with t…
- A view of the Brooklyn Bridge walkway, looking toward the lower Manhattan skyline shr…
- The pedestrian walkway on the bridge is elevated above and between the two roadway se…
- A view of one of the massive towers from mid-span.
- Looking over toward the Brooklyn Bridge’s neighbor to the north.
- Another shot of the Manhattan Bridge.
- Looking from the east tower over towards the west tower, with a great view of the cab…
- A foggy view of the lower Manhattan skyline through the cables.
- Another shot of the tower from near mid-span.
- A view of the South Street Seaport shopping mall and tourist trap from the bridge nea…
- Looking straight up at one of the towers.
- Looking back towards Brooklyn from the Manhattan side. With the exception of the Gold…
- Looking back up the approach ramp from the Manhattan side.
- Taken on a much sunnier day, a view of the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, and Wil…
- Another shot of the three suspension bridges over the East River, taken from South St…
- A few of the historic tall ships docked at South Street Seaport.
- Where fortunes are made and lost every day. I inadvertently seem to have caught a hap…
- Departed friends. Once upon a time, it seemed like the twin towers of the World Trade…
- Looking from the south tower over towards the north tower. High wire artist Philippe …
- Down in the haze below is the Brooklyn Bridge, which I had just walked across earlier…
- Well, there isn’t much to see here. The haze was still pretty thick. This was my only…
- Directly below us is Battery Park and the Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery …
- This complex of buildings was conceived by architect Cesar Pelli as a series of footh…
- Looking northeast towards Broadway. The Woolworth Building is on the right.
- Looking back towards the East River, with the Brooklyn Bridge in center and the Manha…
- Unlike the machine-like efficiency of the street grid further uptown, the street patt…
- Looking north along Church Street near the WTC.
- Another typical narrow side street tucked away in the canyons of lower Manhattan.
- A quiet pocket park in the Village. This trendier-than-thou neighborhood forms the “v…
- The intersection of 86th and Broadway. I stayed at my friend’s apartment in this neig…
- Looking down Broadway from 86th Street.
- I was ostensibly in New York to investigate Columbia University as a possibility for …
- Here’s Avery Hall, home of the architecture program. I ended up spending a lot of tim…
- A shot down the length of Amsterdam Avenue, back towards downtown. The Cathedral of S…
- This funky little building is Columbia’s law library on Amsterdam Avenue.
- This shot is of Amsterdam Avenue stretching northward into Harlem and beyond.
- Low Library, which is neither low nor a library.
- The new student union building by architect Bernard Tschumi, shown here still under c…
- Of Seinfeld fame, this place also happens to be a block away from the cathedral, and …
- View of the Lower Manhattan skyline from the Staten Island Ferry.
- View of the harbor from the Staten Island Ferry.
- I’m not certain, but I think this is 23rd Street near Madison.
- Here we find ourselves at a busy intersection on Park Avenue as we approach the heart…
- At the same intersection, looking in the other direction.
- Looking up Fifth Avenue towards the Empire State Building. You can barely make out th…
- The 42nd Street entrance to the Chrysler Building lobby. Once I had these prints deve…
- Looking up at the spire of the Empire State Building. It was designed as a dock for …
- Another shot of the spire of the Empire State Building from the 86th floor observator…
- Looking south towards the Flatiron Building, SoHo, and the Village.
- You never appreciate the scale and density of Manhattan until you’ve seen it from abo…
- The haze is not quite as thick as before. You can just barely make out the World Trad…
- Looking west, we see Madison Square Garden (lower right), the Hudson River, and New J…
- Looking northward into the heart of Midtown, with the Met Life (formerly Pan Am) Buil…
- Looking back towards Brooklyn, where my walk began that morning.
- Towards the Chrysler Building, the Queensboro Bridge, and Queens across the river.
- Looking towards the top of the flamboyant Chrysler Building.
- The lobby of the building that King Kong made famous, now once again the city’s talle…
- The artfully carved inlaid wood elevator doors in the lobby of the Chrysler Building.
- Looking back down Madison Avenue before crossing over toward Central Park.
- Fifth Avenue. New York’s premiere shopping street becomes New York’s premiere residen…
- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s leading art museums, locate…
- From within some areas of the park, you’d never guess that you’re smack in the middle…
- Central Park: Manhattan’s oasis of green in the midst of the concrete canyons of the …
- The Great Lawn in the middle of the park that often serves as a venue for concerts an…
- Dr. Livingston, I presume? Peering out of the natural jungle of the Ramble into the m…
- Typical apartment buildings on a typical side street on the Upper West Side.
- Brownstones on a quiet side street of the neighborhood.
- A sidewalk produce department, with two neighborhood institutions — Zabar’s and H&H …
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