A montage.
Central Park South building, NYC
Ivy on Edwards Hall, URI
Regal Cinemas, 42nd and 8th, NYC
Protest wall, Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Playpen, 8th Avenue, NYC
Lehman Brothers, 50th and 7th, NYC
Stucco house, my neighborhood
Back of Roseland, 53rd (I think) – in between 7th and 8th, NYC
Carnegie Deli, across from Carnegie Hall, NYC
Dark green storefront, Soho, NYC
My favorite roof in Manhattan, midtown
Wow, that stucco house looks like it could be in some tropical locale instead of, you know, northern Jersey. There’s a pagoda-style house mixed in with tudors and colonials on one of the streets in my hometown. I love how random Jersey is.
P.S. Great colors in your photos!
Curly – I know, right? That building just really stands out in my neighborhood – which is mostly two-family two-story homes, you know – the usual. Then suddenly there’s this green and pink thing on the corner – with rounded doors – I love it! And if you went inside, I would bet the folks who live there have a view of all of Manhattan – it’s perched right on the edge of the cliff with no obsctruction.
The light bulb behind Roseland is just a terrific picture. I love the detail… shows you how awesome the seemingly mundane can be when you photograph it. Decades worth of cracking paint and the orange bulb make a winner.
Noonz – Thank you!! I love the back of that place – it takes almost an entire block, and there are huge very faded musical notes painted all over that cracked adobe-ish paint – it looks slightly seedy, and yet glamorous – like all old-school New York joints. I love it!
It’s easy to see why your “favorite roof” is, well, your favorite. I love the color and intricacies.
Just yesterday I was in northern NJ visiting family and driving through the area I just thought to myself, yup, this is (the area my family’s in). I couldn’t put my finger on it but it’s the same, every time I’ve gone, since I was a kid, despite the passage of time.
Kate – I love it when things don’t change. I love going home to my hometown where I grew up and finding that SOME things have not become mini-malls. The same groves of firs are there … the same woodsy pond … the same Cape houses and little curvy street neighborhoods … I can visit all my old haunts and not feel too disconnected.
Speaking of my favorite roof: what do you think it’s made of? Is it … tin? Like … what is going on up there?? It’s obviously not stone – not like the rest of the building. I love the slant of it. I don’t even know what that building is – it;’s on 46th and 8th or something like that … I should investigate.
I was guessing the roof was oxidized copper–like the Statue of Liberty. But I’m no scientist!
I’m with Kate P – definitely copper. The big cathedral here – the Cathedral of Saint Paul, used to have the same green roof (http://www.planet99.com/pix/7567_1.jpg), until they redid the roof and put in new copper. (dull, not shiny. I was hoping for shiny copper – thought it would be beautiful. I’m still disappointed.)