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Winter High Line 1

01/31/04

The High Line, an abandoned elevated rail line on the West Side of Manhattan.

Lots of other people have High Line pictures online, but I couldn't find many winter ones.

High Line photos, January 31, 2004:

• Winter High Line 1, mostly snowy tracks
• Winter High Line 2, shadows and plant life
• Winter High Line 3, graffiti and other artwork
• Winter High Line 4, objects (mostly rusted)
• Winter High Line 5, odds and ends
• rachelleb.com: The High Line (with photo gallery)
• tienmao.com: Walking/Seen on/Seen from/Graffiti on the High Line

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Zoom

01/30/04

Chelsea. See also Rehearsal, part 2.

 

At NYC Street Photos, icy firefighting.

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Gloria mundi

01/29/04

Metro-North

 

Chinatown

 

Lafayette Avenue station, C train. Waiting for the C train ranks right up there with visiting the dentist.

 

Metropolitan Avenue station, G train.

 

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Mascot of the Q train

01/28/04

Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. Hugs may result in 600 volts: an attractive nuisance if I ever saw one.

 

Chelsea

 

C train, Brooklyn

 

Three more days to cast your vote in the Bloggies. The more I mention it, the sillier I'll look when I lose!

Rion, snow, Times Square. And Lightningfield captures the Chinatown 25-cent store, then and now.

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Chambers Street

01/27/04

Chambers Street is, without a doubt, the creepiest and most neglected New York subway station. It was built as a grand downtown terminal for the BMT -- some might say a cathedral of transit -- with five platforms and four tracks. Today only two platforms are open and two tracks are used; the decline of Downtown and the rise of Midtown after World War II doomed this line, which only serves Downtown.

As yucky as this once-grand station is now, it was even worse a few months ago, before bad publicity shamed the MTA into cleaning up some of the low-hanging fruit (litter and graffiti):

More on Chambers Street at Forgotten NY and nycsubway.org

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Steam 2

01/26/04

escaperail: Fire escape photography.

All Jive, street-poetry-or-something photos by Rudayday. I've linked to it before, but his Brooklyn storefront churches photo project [background] is (still) wonderful.

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Steam 1

01/25/04

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Times Square midnight

01/23/04

Times Square

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Above

01/22/04

If you're like me, you never get tired of spectacular views. Some eye candy, from 16 Court Street:

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Alliteration

01/20/04

(Note that the Q-Train Deli used to be the D-Train Deli, which has more of a ring to it. Next month, will it become the B-Train Deli?)

Flatbush, Brooklyn

 

Ozone Park, Queens

 

Queens Plaza

 

400iso.com is new, good, and not at all grainy.

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Doorways 2

01/19/04

Chinatown

 

It appears that I will soon resoundingly lose a Bloggie in the "Best Photography of a Weblog" category, which I'd thought meant photos of monitors displaying web browsers displaying blogs. Apparently it doesn't. Anyway, I'd personally vote for any of the other nominees rather than for me.

But perhaps I will break my -to-date silence on Photoblogs.org vote pimping, now that I'm in danger of falling out of the top 100. Vote for me there, should you see fit.

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Doorways 1

01/17/04

Fort Greene, Brooklyn

 

Stamford, CT

 

Newark, NJ

 

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

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Followup

01/16/04

(She doesn't look like a crack whore...)

 

Chinatown. Yes, that used to say "rear street bum."

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Staying warm

01/14/04

"You know it's cold when..."

 

 

 

 

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Downtown Newark

01/13/04

Newark, NJ (more here)

 

I know everyone in the world linked to it yesterday, but here's Abandoned Bicycles of New York City anyway, in honor of my poor bike, which had its handlebars (handlebars!) stolen recently.

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Abandoned subway tunnel

01/11/04

Abandoned subway tunnel, Newark

That photographer in the eighth picture is Steve, whose site contains much excellence.

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Backlog: Tribeca, parking

01/10/04

Tribeca (Rion, "all people", almost three years ago)

 

Dyker Heights, Brooklyn

 

Frank H. Jump documents fading ads on the sides of New York buildings.

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Backlog: New Year's Eve

01/09/04

 
Upper-ish East Side

 

Park Slope, Brooklyn. Who or what is Thomas?

 

I'm fascinated by Not Fooling Anybody, a collection of poorly executed conversions from failed archetypically-architected businesses to (usually) low-rent restaurants. I especially like this Planet Hollywood-turned-pizzeria. (This used to say "-turned-no-name-pizzeria," but I was corrected.)

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Backlog: Dean

01/08/04

Dean Street, between Vanderbilt and Underhill Avenues, Brooklyn

 

Crown Heights(?), Brooklyn

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Backlog: assorted

01/07/04

I'm just gonna whip through these, ok? But that doesn't mean you should too -- there are some photos here I like a lot. Some of them a whole lot. Maybe I'll even leave this entry up for a couple days.

(The statues are of famous actresses from the 1920s. [more info])

Times Square

 

Downtown Brooklyn

 

Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Note street sign. Thanks to Lauren for the tip on this one.

 

Gowanus, Brooklyn

 

Park Slope, Brooklyn. Possibly one of my favorite shots ever, condemned to be just one in a stream of backlog. Tragic.

 

I'm all giddy today, for no apparent reason. At dinner a friend asked me if I was on drugs. (I wasn't.) And that was before the coffee. But YOU DON'T CARE. Because this is a photolog, not a blog. Or am I just in denial?

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Chicago Chinatown

01/06/04

 

Chicago

More Chinatown stuff here.

 

Did Tien Mao's vulgar crosswalk picture inspire this kinder, gentler piece of crosswalk dressing art? Street-art historians of the future will wonder.

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Des Plaines, city of destiny

01/05/04

Des Plaines, IL

Getting tired of Chicago? (Be honest.)

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Train to Chicago

01/05/04

Chicago

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Competitive advantage

01/04/04

Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Happy New Year

01/03/04

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Do you think they have to change the awning every year?

 

Santa (in the form of my credit card) brought me a new camera, a Canon PowerShot S400, with which I took the above. As I work through the backlog, more and more of the photos will suck a little less than usual.

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Chicago, city of "protection"

01/02/04

Chicago

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Pimpin'

01/01/04

Chicago

 

At Bluejake, sunset pictures. I think they're from the same roof where I took the picture in my header graphic above.

Gothamist discovers the original New York photolog (from the '40s and '50s).

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Chicago signage

01/01/04

Chicago. Happy birthday as well to my grandfather Carl, who would have been 100 today.

 

Oak Park, IL

Thanks to Chris for showing me around his fair city.

At NYC Street Photos: Passenger side view through Harlem.

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