New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, c. 1929.
One of many superb photos of New York in the Municipal Archives. Very pleased that I managed to get this in my book! (Page 21 in the sampler.)
More here.
Stanley Kubrick’s Snapshots of the 1946 New York City Subway (Flavorwire)
“It’s kind of like competing against a ghost.”
1 World Trade Center will soon overtake the Empire State Building as New York City’s tallest building. It is 1271 feet high. (photo Michael Nagle/NYT)
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“Nightview, New York,” 1932, Berenice Abbott. [From: polis - Weiwei Meets Abbott at a Museum in Paris]
“They’re remarkable. They’re brutal. But they are also very beautiful.”
870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations now available to the public on the Internet for the first time, including crime photos.
Story (WSJ). Gallery (ES). New York City Department of Records.
Image: October 7, 1914: painters are suspended from wires on the Brooklyn Bridge
“We’re not trying to make an instant photograph of happiness. There’s been quite a lot done to make the city feel more delicate, which is good, but we shouldn’t forget its industrial history. At Times Square, there were rivets on the old marquees, the steelwork on the signs was industrial, and the lighting was naked bulbs. We want that whole history to be reflected in the experience of the space.”
Craig Dykers, co-founder Snøhetta.
Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces, by Alex MacLean (Princeton).
Slideshow & article: Independent
Manhattan from the ferry, June 1998. © PD Smith.
“It’s sustainable, it’s economical and suitable for urban and crowded environments.” Aquaponics in Long Island City. NY Daily News
New York, circa 1940, © Helen Levitt. Courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery and/or powerHouse Books.
View a slideshow of Levitt’s great street photos at Lens Culture.
Matthew Pillsbury, Towers of Light.
“I think many of us don’t question the role that the city plays in our daily lives when in fact we are in dialogue with it. Even beyond providing the stage/setting for our daily interactions, the city is actually a living character in our lives. We often comment on the role of the city when we find it oppressive (‘I need to get away this weekend’) but don’t realize that it’s a continual dialogue and that like any relationship it can be joyful, celebratory, or melancholic.”
‘Across the East River, Arthur Miller and Norman Mailer both lived at 102 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights during the forties. This is where Mailer worked on The Naked and the Dead and Miller wrote All My Sons. The two scribes were aware of each other and Mailer later recounted thinking of Miller, “this guy’s never going anywhere.”’
Diego Rivera, Frozen Assets (1931-2). From Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
