27 Jan

#12 Fire Escape

Fire escapes are a quintessential aspect of New York’s architectural landscape. At one time they were a fire safety requirement for buildings in the city, but they have now fallen…
25 Jan

#11 Condominium

Following my post on property listings, this one presents some of the actual luxury condominium developments on Wythe Ave. I suppose I could also subtitle this “Gentrification I.”
23 Jan

#10 Property Listings

Readers of my (other) blog, http://www.dreamofacity.com, will realise that I’m not actually in New York right now, but in Berlin (and I was in London last week). While I prepared…

21 Jan

#9 – Wind

I’ll continue this week’s theme of un-earthly phenomena with a post on the wind, on a particularly gusty morning. This one was slightly harder to accomplish since what I am…
19 Jan

#8 – Stars

Thought I’d continue the previous post’s theme of celestial phenomena. Here is a constellation of stars, scintillating on Wythe Av.
17 Jan

#7 – Clouds

With my head in the clouds, I see my place in the world. For this post, I see the street through the clouds above it… imagining magical creatures in amidst…
13 Jan

#6 – Broken

I thought I’d go conceptual – choose a theme and capture images that describe this theme. The theme I chose was “Broken” and all the images here have something broken…
11 Jan

# 5 – Faces II (Cornucopia)

On my walk up Wythe Av for the last post, I gathered a bumper crop of faces… Happy faces, seductive faces, faces at an angle, full-on stares, celebrity faces, not-so-famous…
09 Jan

#4 – Faces I (On Lamp Posts)

To kick off this week, I thought I’d go for the slightly quirky, searching for faces on lamp posts. They stare unmoving out at you as the street passes behind…
05 Jan

#3 – House No.

Thought I’d explore House Numbers today – something very everyday and which most people take for granted. Do you know how your neighbor’s House No. looks like? Do you know…