Stop this city
02/28/04
Gowanus, Brooklyn
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Wayback bagels
02/27/04
I just found these photos from last summer that had somehow never made it online.
Navy Yard, Brooklyn (I think)
Midwood, Brooklyn (I think)
Thanks to everyone who made it to the Apple Store last night. It was a blast, and I found myself trying new techniques almost as soon as I left the building.
Rion posted live, and it's a doozy: Pandas roam Times Square. Not just any pandas, but pandas chained to TV-terrorist-style metallic briefcases. Whoa.
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42nd Street lower level
02/25/04
(click for larger panorama, 1750x422, 174kb)
The lower-level platform at the 42nd Street/Port Authority station on the 8th Avenue subway, located directly beneath the downtown platform, was built in 1932 but "only used from 1959 to 1981 for odd services like the Aqueduct Racetrack special fare trains, and for rush hour E trains for a period during the 1970s," according to nycsubway.org's 42nd Street page, which continues: "It isn't really clear why this lower level was even built."
I suspect that the tilework was not done until the '50s, because it more closely resembles the postwar IND stations (like Liberty through Euclid Avenues) than any of the original stations.
Rumor has it that the only reason for the platform's existence was to block the 7 train from expanding to the west. Indeed, current plans call for the demolition of the lower level if the city succeeds in extending the 7 train to the Javits Center. Already, a former escalator (which can be seen here in a 1996 photo) has been removed.
This is just one of many never-fully-used vestiges of the IND subway system. Another is Bergen Street lower level.
More subway tunnel shots here, here, and here.
Accessing prohibited sections of the subway can be hazardous or fatal. Do not attempt it.
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Coney Island 2
02/24/04
More at Bluejake.
It looks like I'll be speaking and presenting a few photos at this event on Thursday night. You should come.
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Coney Island 1
02/23/04
Coney Island, which is a bit different in the summer. More tomorrow and at Bluejake.
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Elevator safety
02/22/04
Grand Central Terminal
Perhaps you'd better take the stairs instead.
Queensbridge
Don't miss sleepy city, gorgeous urban-exploration photos (mostly from Brisbane, Australia) that shimmer and astound. Via creativity/machine, which has an interview with the photographer.
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Last Q Diamond ever
02/21/04
The Q diamond is being retired in favor of the B, and a few hundred people gave it a proper funeral. The Q diamond carried me over the bridge many a time; last summer I dubbed it "the air-conditioned zephyr of Flatbush Avenue." More at Bluejake, Gothamist, and the Times.
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Anchorage
02/20/04
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is the world's sixth-longest suspension bridge.
Via Lazytree, photos of the Brooklyn storefronts corresponding to camera mail-order businesses with bad reputations.
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4th Avenue 2
02/18/04
(sister store of Nothing Fits!?)
4th Avenue, Brooklyn (more from 4th Avenue)
Got plans for next Thursday night? Cancel them and come see seven New York photo(b)loggers speaking and exhibiting their work at the Apple Store.
While you're waiting, browse through some graffiti archaeology (via yukino) and a massive collection of New York street photos.
Or, if none of those suggestions appeal to you:
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Odds and ends 3
02/16/04
Chinatown
Hell's Kitchen
Bergen Street station, upper level, Brooklyn
14th Regiment Armory, Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Keep New York City Clean
02/13/04
Hell's Kitchen
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IND tunnel
02/12/04
IND subway tunnel, Brooklyn
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Lower Bergen
02/10/04
The lower level express platforms at Bergen Street station, on the F and G lines, were built in 1933, but they were never used until 1968, when the F ran express in Brooklyn. Service to the lower level ended in 1976. There has been talk recently about routing the much-hated V train to Brooklyn as an express via the lower level of Bergen Street, but it seems to be mostly just talk. In any event, some sort of signal construction is clearly underway.
More about Bergen Street at Abandoned Stations ("All the tile was removed, for reasons unknown."), nycsubway.org, and callalillie.
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Jobs for slackers
02/09/04
Navy Yard, Brooklyn
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
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Rainy Chinatown 2
02/08/04
January not cold enough for you? Quick, get to Chinatown for a sale on air conditioners!
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Rainy Chinatown 1
02/07/04
Chinatown
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Two weeks and counting
02/06/04
Sixth Avenue trains return to Brooklyn via the Manhattan Bridge on February 22. Hallelujah! Details here.
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Winter High Line 5
02/04/04
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
Metropolitan Diary circular file (via Gawker)
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Winter High Line 4
02/03/04
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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Winter High Line 3
02/02/04
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
Also:
Found Typography (via angiemckaig.com)
The mayor is a puppet of organized crime! See also HELP SAVE MTN. VIEW.
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Winter High Line 2
02/01/04
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