Surprisingly, in a city with such an extensive public transportation system, many New Yorkers still drive. Parking on Wythe Avenue is a rather intricate affair, however, as the street has…
A fundamental but often overlooked aspect of the street – the bricks that are used to construct its buildings. If you look a little closer, you will find that they…
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…
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.”
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…
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…
Thought I’d continue the previous post’s theme of celestial phenomena. Here is a constellation of stars, scintillating on Wythe Av.
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…
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…
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…