There is a famous location in Brooklyn, on Washington Street in DUMBO, where the Manhattan Bridge tower frames the Empire States Building. It isn't quite Leaning Tower of Pisa, but there are enough tourists posing for photographs to slow car traffic and produce a curious scene when viewed from above: The view of skyscraper framed... Continue Reading →
Photos taken in June 2019. The Vessel closed to the public in 2022.
I came across a recent prompt asking "what is your favorite book about NYC?" Mine is the The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill (1964), a children's book I first red in 4th grade and probably my first exposure to New York City. The book has plenty of fans, its own New Yorker profile from 2014,... Continue Reading →
[From the summer] - At Lafayette and 1st St sits a wedge shaped building similar to the Flatiron. This building, without the patronage and protection afforded the Flatiron, has has additions and subtractions and a few billboards stapled on, but the result is this bow-like extension, pointing north and culminating in, somewhere inside at the... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 