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NYC street scene: Block drug stores and feather top hat

Mon 31st January, 2011Mon 31st January, 2011 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Night scene at Block drug stores, 101 2nd Ave (between 5th St & 6th St) in the East Village, New York. [More New York photos]

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Into Manhattan with a stunning Brooklyn Bridge sunset, NYC

Mon 24th January, 2011Sun 23rd January, 2011 - by editor - 3 Comments.

Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan one November evening, we were greeted by this absolutely stunning sunset.

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Battery Park, New York City in the driving autumn rain

Tue 18th January, 2011Tue 18th January, 2011 - by editor - 4 Comments.

I love walking through cities in the rain, and when it’s New York in late November, there’s rarely any shortage of the stuff.

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Cake Shop, Ludlow Street, New York – photos and memories

Fri 7th January, 2011Sat 8th January, 2011 - by editor - 3 Comments.

Situated on New York’s almost-completely gentrified Lower East Side at 152 Ludlow Street is the Cake Shop, a small cafe/music venue where we’ve spent many hours, scoffing bagels, surfing the …

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Concorde at the Intrepid Museum, NYC

Wed 5th January, 2011Wed 5th January, 2011 - by editor - 3 Comments.

Standing rather forlornly on a barge at the end of a Manhattan jetty on New York’s west side is retired British Airways Concorde aircraft, number G-BOAD.

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Avenue A freeze out as the snow brings the streets to a halt in New York
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Avenue A freeze out, as snowstorm hits New York City

Tue 28th December, 2010Tue 28th December, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

The snow has hit New York city very hard indeed, and my good friend Jim P has sent over this incredible photo of abandoned cabs and buses on Avenue A …

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Sycamore Flower Shop & Bar, Flatbush, Brooklyn NY

Tue 21st December, 2010Mon 17th January, 2011 - by editor - Leave a Comment

There’s not many bars I can think of that double up as a flower shop, but the Sycamore at Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11218 can boast that that rare distinction. …

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Bedford Hill Coffee Bar, Bedford-Stuyvesant, NYC

Fri 17th December, 2010Sat 15th January, 2011 - by editor - 1 Comment

We’re happy to tramp quite vast distances in our quest for great cafes and good coffee, and our trek out to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn was rewarded by excellent beverages …

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New York photos: subways, buskers, transvestites and fallout shelters

Mon 13th December, 2010Mon 13th December, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

Here’s another selection of  photos from our December 2010 NYC trip, starting with these buskers on Bedford Avenue subway station, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Union Square Greenmarket – Farmers’ Market in New York

Sat 11th December, 2010Mon 25th April, 2011 - by editor - 3 Comments.

Last week, I took another look around the busy farmers’ market in Union Square, New York City. If you’re looking for apples in the Big Apple, this is the place to …

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More New York snaps

Sat 4th December, 2010Sat 4th December, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Another handful of pics hot from the (cold) streets of Noo Yoik!

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Williamsburg cranes
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New York City snapshots

Mon 29th November, 2010Tue 7th December, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Here’s some camera phone pics from NYC (using the HTC Desire phone and the Vignette app). Above is a scene in Williamsburg, with cranes looming in a chilly winter sky.

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New York – Manhattan street shots

Thu 4th November, 2010Fri 5th November, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I love photographing New York – for a while I was lucky enough to live and work there and I’m hoping to get back over this year. I’ve visited the …

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Coney Island archive photos: 1986 and 1999

Fri 6th August, 2010 - by editor - 2 Comments.

Dug up from my photo archives is this series of photos of the faded seaside town of Coney Island, Brooklyn, which I visited in 1986 and 1999. I was terrified …

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Queensboro Bridge & the Roosevelt Island Tramway, NYC

Tue 16th March, 2010Tue 16th March, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

We’re slowly working our way over every bridge out of Manhattan – we’ve strutted over the Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, the George Washington Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge, and a …

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5Pointz, Queens NYC: the most graffiti’d building in New York?

Sun 14th March, 2010Sun 14th March, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

Situated by Jackson Avenue at Crane Street and Davis Street in Long Island City, 5 Pointz claims to be the “world’s premiere ‘graffiti Mecca,’ showcasing aerosol artists from around the …

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Some photos: Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

Fri 12th March, 2010Sun 14th March, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Some more photos from our travels around Williamsburg, Brooklyn NYC:

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New York street photos

Thu 6th August, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

New York street scenes. Some photos of graffiti, skylines, neon shopfronts and fallout shelter signs from our travels around Brooklyn and Manhattan last winter       More photos here: …

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Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC photos

Wed 5th August, 2009 - by editor - 2 Comments.

Last winter we paid another visit to Red Hook, Brookyln � a down-at-heel, former industrial port which was once dubbed the ‘crack capital of America.’ Here’s some photos I’ve finally …

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P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, NYC

Mon 26th January, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

One of the largest and oldest institutions in the US dedicated to contemporary art, we checked out the non-profit P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center during our winter stay in New York. …

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Stars and stripes, New York.

Thu 22nd January, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Americans go berserk for their national flag – wherever you look in new York, you’ll see a giant size Stars and Stripes or two flapping away in the wind. Here’s …

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Reverend Billy Buy-Nothing event, Union Sq, NYC

Tue 13th January, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Union Square, New York, 28th Nov 2008 On the day that a Walmart worker in Valley Stream was crushed to death by a stampeding mob of frenzied shoppers, the Rev …

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New York / railways / stuff

Riding a vintage NYC subway car

Wed 17th December, 2008 - by editor - 1 Comment

This is well cool: every Sunday in December, New York City Transit run a 1930s subway train along a regular route, so startled passengers might find this old beauty rumbling …

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Offline in Brooklyn, NYC

Fri 12th December, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

A few photos: Loads more New York photos coming soon!

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A trip to Rockaway Beach, 1986

Tue 18th November, 2008Sun 1st August, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

Allow me to introduce a youthful photo of me near Rockaway Beach, on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens, circa 1986 – a trip taken …

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New York photo updates

Tue 25th March, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I’m slowly getting through the huge backlog of photos from our December 2007 trip to New York. Here’s some updates – hope you like ’em! New York street photos part …

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Canal Street NYC: photos

Sat 19th January, 2008Sun 11th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Visitors keen to find a piece of untamed New York should check out Canal Street, in lower Manhattan. It’s stuffed full of counterfeit handbags, suspect jewellery, fake Rolex watches, knocked …

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New York subway scenes

Fri 18th January, 2008Thu 18th March, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Some more photos from last month’s New York trip…

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Times Square at night, NYC

Fri 18th January, 2008Sat 10th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Here’s some pics taken when we walked through the tourist-tastic neon eyestorm of Times Square. It’s bonkers but fun – like Piccadilly Circus on steroids – but it’s not a …

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Winter walk in NY

Mon 14th January, 2008 - by editor - 2 Comments.

I’ve posted up a few more photos from trip to New York last month – but I’ve still got loads more to work though. Sat on top of a residential …

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