New
York City |
"The
City" |
![NYC Skyline](images/nyc2a.jpg)
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NYC Skyline
Still, heaven for millions.
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![WTC Message](images/WTC1.jpg)
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World Trade Center
Memorial
This was a
common message painted on the sidewalks of NYC. |
![World Trade Center Detail](images/nyc3a.jpg)
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World Trade Center Detail
This was the grating around a tree on the outside
grounds of the WTC.
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![Water Valve in the Grass](images/nyc1a.jpg)
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Water Valve in the Grass
This was not far from Battery Park.
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![New York City Blue](images/NYCBlue2.jpg)
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New York City Blue
This was a great day. I found this around 50th
Street and had to quickly shoot it to avoid being run over.
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![Large Cover with Sand](images/nyc1.jpg)
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Large Cover with Sand
This cover has a lot more flavor than most of the same
type in the Big
Apple.
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![Covered Sewer Cover](images/nyc6.jpg)
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Covered Sewer Cover
Looks like transparent glue. Why? I don't
know.
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![Wet One](images/nyc5b.jpg)
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Wet
One
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![New York City Vasarely](images/IMG0016.jpg)
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New York City Vasarely
This one was not designed by Victor Vasarely, but I
would like to paint it with some of his colors.
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![Uptown Dripper](images/uptowndripper.jpg)
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Uptown Dripper
The lines around this cover may have been painted by a
relative of Jackson Pollack.
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![NYM](images/nyc4.jpg)
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NYM
I think you better ask Diane Stuart what that means.
Actually I just bought her great book "Designs Underfoot" and it
looks like it means New York Municipal (Railway Corporation).
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![New York City](images/nyc4-50.JPG)
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NYC Cover from
China
This cover was made in China.
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![New York City, Radio City Star](images/radiocity-50.JPG)
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Radio City Star
This bronze star was meant to inspire female pedestrians
to become Radio City Rockettes. |
![](images/NYstar.jpg)
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Movie Theatre Star
This star was on the floor in a lobby in a regular movie
theatre just north of the Lincoln Center. It shows very clearly
NYC's obsession with stardom. |
![Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree](images/RfellerXmas.jpg)
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Rockefeller Center
Christmas Tree
Presumably, this access is used to light the Christmas Tree
at
Christmas time? I used this photo for last year's Christmas card. |
![Rockefeller Center Swirl](images/RfellerSwirl.jpg)
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Rockefeller Center
Swirl
I don't know where they got these stone tiles for the plaza,
but they are naturally beautiful. |
![CBS Plaque Scribe #1](images/IMG0025lite.jpg)
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CBS Plaque Scribe #1
The next 3 photos were photographed in front of the CBS
building in anticipation of the installation of a new plaque honoring a
great musician. I've used them in a tryptic and it always amazes me,
that images like this can amaze me. Why?
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![CBS Plaque Scribe #2](images/IMG0024lite.jpg)
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CBS Plaque Scribe
#2
The lines and angles were more interesting than the
subject matter that they were intended to hold.
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![CBS Plaque Scribe #3](images/IMG0023lite.jpg)
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CBS Plaque Scribe
#3
Someday I would like to go back with some colored chalk
and try out a few color schemes on the sidewalk itself. Josef Albers
and Andreas Feininger come to mind.
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![Tribeca Square Cover](images/Tribeca4.jpg)
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Tribeca Square
Cover
This is almost the antithesis of the Rockefeller Center
shots. Some of the dirt and scum in this area is so entrenched that it has a
beauty all it's own. |
![Tribeca Cover](images/Tribeca1.jpg)
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Tribeca Round Cover
#1
The smooth textures and colors of the granite and iron seem to blend together... |
![Tribeca Cover](images/Tribeca3.jpg)
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Tribeca Round Cover
#2
..and the grid designs on the cover take on the patterns
of the stones... |
![Tribeca Round Cover #3](images/Tribeca5.jpg)
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Tribeca Round Cover
#3
Then again, sometimes it's about the boldness of
industry. |
![BPM Penalty](images/bpmpenalty.jpg)
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BPM Penalty
Don't touch this cover or you'll face a severe penalty.
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![New York City Gunk](images/nycgunk-50.JPG)
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New York City Gunk
This water valve cover has been graciously and
meticulously repaired to repel the elements. :) |
![NYC Sewer Pipes](images/nyc2b.jpg)
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NYC
Sewer Pipes
These pipes were being installed in the Chelsea area.
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![NYC Skid](images/NYskid.jpg)
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Worn NYC Cover
This cover and street lines have been well worn by
thousands of fast driven taxis. |
![Tribeca Wear](images/tribecawear.jpg)
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Tribeca Wear
This cover had been recently paved around prior to the
9/11 WTC attack, but I haven't been back since then to see it's condition.
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![Chelsea Drain](images/IMG0020.jpg)
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Chelsea Drain
This day I brought my bike to the city and rode around
to find the lonely, "off the beaten trail" spots and was lucky
enough to find this area. There was also a lot of interesting debris
that you will never see in the National Geographic magazine. |
![New York City Bureau](images/NYCbureau.jpg)
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Manhattan
Bureau of Sewer
This cover is also in the Chelsea area and is one of the few
that has has Manhattan on it.
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![Manhattan DC](images/nyc3.jpg)
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Manhattan
DC
DC stands for Dirty Cover.
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![Square Corner Drain](images/IMG0019.jpg)
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Square Corner Drain
This one says Dept of Public Works Boro of Manhattan,
and it was not very pleasant to get too close.
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![Gum Ridden Coal Hole](images/nyc4a.jpg)
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Gum Ridden Coal
Shoot Hole
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![NYC Coal Hole](images/NYcoal1.jpg)
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NYC Coal Hole
Uptown hole, living in an uptown world.
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![872 DPW Sewer](images/nyc5a.jpg)
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872
DPW Sewer
Even Port Jefferson, home of the great Manhole Cover
artist Bobbi Mastrangelo, needs a generic sewer cover.
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![High Relief Port Jefferson Drain](images/nyc6a.jpg)
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High Relief Port Jefferson Drain
This cover was also in Port Jefferson, which was the place in
Long Island that the ferry landed on my trip from Bridgeport CT. It
has a nautical flavor, since it looks like a ship's steering wheel.
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![Dry Port Jefferson Drain](images/portjefferson.jpg)
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Dry Port
Jefferson Drain Cover
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