New York street scenes
Street signs, skylines, graffiti and tarmac.
(Photos Dec 2008, words August 2009 ©urban75)
New York is a great city for photographers - unlike the car-choked hell of Los Angeles, it's a great walking city and there's always something to catch the eye.
Here's a selection of photos taken during our walks around Manhattan and Brooklyn in the winter of 2008. Most were taken on our Lumix LX3 compact camera - a truly fantastic camera I can't recommend highly enough.
I would have taken more photos with my Nikon D300, but the ruddy thing packed up (again) after just three days and - annoyingly - started working perfectly as soon as we touched down back in England.
Anyhow, here's some of the city details and street scenes that I snapped.
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New York's iconic yellow cabs.
A lot of the drivers barely have a clue where anything is once you get out of central Manhattan, but unlike London cabbies, they're as cheap as chips and will take you just about anywhere.
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Guitar shop on Rivington, Lower East Side.
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Faded advert for something that was 'Crankcase flushed' (a toilet, perhaps?).
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The famous statue of Lenin that has stood on the top of an apartment block on East Houston Street since 1994.
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Katz Furniture, formally known as M. Katz and Sons, a family-owned retail furniture business on Essex Street that has been trading for over a hundred years.
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Curious cup on the Lower East Side.
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Atomic fallout shelter. Look around and you'll see quite a few of these survivors from the days of the Cold War.
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Near Grand Central station.
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New development by Astor Place.
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