Today in People I Saw: New York Times fashion and society photographer Bill Cunningham, likely talking to two of his upcoming sartorial subjects.
I love New York.
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UNDERWORLD Metropolitan Transportation Authority photographer Patrick Cashin has documented the continuing work on the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan. (via NBC News)
(Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com)
They’re tearing down the Wendy’s on Queens Boulevard that stood in for the fictional “McDowell’s” from the film Coming To America. (Photo via Flickr)
I love New York. I love this city and its ability to capture your eye, even in the moments when you don’t have full control of your faculties, when you’re not quite sure where you are. The fabric of this place comprises stolen moments, quietude amidst chaos, episodic bucolic, banal as sublime.
I love New York.
Lincoln Center, Manhattan.
Manhattan.
Today in New York City transportation news:
- BIKE LANES. The bicycle sharing program launched last week hit a milestone today with its 100,000th rider. Altogether, New Yorkers and visitors have logged 270,000 miles on these new blue beauties.
- TRAINS. A subway tunnel that runs under the East River and which was inundated during Superstorm Sandy will be shut down for more than a year.
- AUTOMOBILES. Already in use in many other cities — and once the bane of bad car parkers right here in the Big Apple — the wheel clamp, or boot, is making a comeback.
Lightning strikes the World Trade Center in Manhattan during a thunderstorm on Saturday, June 1, 2013. (Photo: Nick Carwile / Caters via The New York Daily News)
Relatives of 11-year-old gunshot victim Tayloni Mazcyk gather during a press conference on Monday. Doctors say the Brooklyn girl was paralyzed after being shot in the neck and spine; no arrests have been made. Family members say the shooting — one of more than two dozen in New York City this past weekend — is only one part of what they called an “epidemic” of gun violence. (Photo: Aaron Showalter / New York Daily News)
Not seen in Victor Kerlow’s excellent illustration for this New York Times article on what condiments not to apply to a New York City hot dog: ”anything that Chicago craps all over their hot dogs.”
This weekend in New York City, there were 25 people shot, including six fatalities; one victim was an 11-year-old girl who was shot through the neck and spine and who will never walk again.
Or, as the NRA says, “Who cares?”
(Photo of a bloody crime scene in Brooklyn by Debbie Egan-Chin / The New York Daily News)
Here’s extremely rare film footage of New York City from 1939 — in full color.
It means that I am retiring on a good note.
Scripps National Spelling Bee winner and Queens, NY resident ARVIND MAHANKALI, on finally winning the top prize during his final year of eligibility; the eighth grader had placed third in two previous contests.
Heh.
(via the New York Times)
I suppose the most arresting thing about Manhattanhenge isn’t the near-perfect alignment of the setting Sun with the east-west grid of the borough’s streets.
It’s seeing the way people - New Yorkers and visitors alike — unilaterally decide to spill out onto those streets, en masse, without apparent regard for their own safety, to see for themselves and document this most extraordinary of skybound events.
42nd Street and 7th Avenue / Broadway, Manhattan, 29 May 2013; photo by yours truly.
Manhattan.
