{"id":2852,"date":"2010-12-13T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2010-12-13T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T15:41:38","slug":"new-york-photos-subways-buskers-transvestites-and-fallout-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/new-york-photos-subways-buskers-transvestites-and-fallout-shelters\/","title":{"rendered":"New York photos: subways, buskers, transvestites and fallout shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-01.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another selection of \u00a0photos from our December 2010 NYC trip, starting with these buskers on Bedford Avenue subway station, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-02.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roadworks, 1st Avenue, NYC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-03.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A rather elderly (and, it has to be said, not very convincing) transvestite applies some make up, 14 Street subway station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-04.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Light and mirror, the Cake Shop cafe, Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, NYC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-05.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Street signs, W48th St.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-06.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seriously knackered Chinook station wagon, Midtown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-07.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just be cool, NYPD cops.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-08.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rusting sign for an abandoned hotel, Barrow St\/Hudson Street, NYC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-09.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0perhaps\u00a0isn&#8217;t the best place to park in downtown New York.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-10.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old nuclear fallout sign.<\/p>\n<p>You can see many of these signs on\u00a0buildings\u00a0around Manhattan, with the shelters being constructed by the federal government as part of the Community Fallout Shelter Program during the Cold War of the early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-11.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Painted van, St Marks Place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-12.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christmas shoppers clutching Bloomingdales bags,\u00a0Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/new-york-street-photos-13.jpg\" alt=\"New York street scenes - December 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Detour sign, Waverley Place, Greenwich Village.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/newyork\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More New York photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another selection of \u00a0photos from our December 2010 NYC trip, starting with these buskers on Bedford Avenue subway station, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,17,193],"tags":[55,201,1199],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-photos","category-places","tag-brooklyn","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/new-york-street-photos-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-K0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}