Upper West Side, Amsterdam Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets

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Upper West Side, 102nd Street East of Amsterdam Avenue

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102nd Street east of Amsterdam Avenue ends in a cul de sac surrounded by the Frederick Douglass Houses and on the south side, the Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School. This photograph shows a little piece of the school. But, of course, it's all about the car.

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Upper West Side, Amsterdam Avenue Between 101st and 102nd Streets

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You all know that Amsterdam Avenue is really Tenth Avenue. The name was changed in 1890 (above 59th Street) to add some cachet to the neighborhood.

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Upper West Side, 101st Street Between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue

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Red, white and blue always catches my eye.

These were three of the most cheerful guys I've met in a long time. One of them saw me with a camera and called to his buddies to come pose for me.

For the sequence, go here. This is only if you have time on your hands and nothing better to do.

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Upper West Side, Broadway at 101st Street

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Another new apartment building soars into the sky on the upper, upper West Side.

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Upper West Side, Broadway at 101st Street

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Alice is in town visiting Luka and today the three of us met at Turkuaz for a fabulous buffet brunch. I've been thinking about it ever since. Afterwards I went off by myself on a photowalk, across 101st Street to Amsterdam Avenue and up to 110th.

It was a warm August day, and compared to yesterday, highly acceptable.

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Upper East Side, Lexington Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets

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This is the back entrance to the Park Avenue 7th Regiment Armory, built 1877-79. The AIA (American Institute of Architects) Guide calls it "a friendly brick fortress."

In time, we'll get to the Park Avenue side, but if you can't wait, take a visit to the nyc architecture site.


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Upper East Side, Lexington Avenue between 64th and 65th Streets

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A drycleaner's window.

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Upper East Side, Lexington Avenue Between 61st and 62nd Streets

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This is not Park Avenue, not Madison Avenue, not Fifth or Third or Second. This is scruffy, busy, interesting Lexington Avenue. Even the name is more interesting. Notice Gotham City Comics on the 2nd floor above the liquor store.




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Wouldn't you like to have a hardware store like this in your neighborhood?

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Upper East Side, Lexington Avenue at 61st Street

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This was just a shot to mark my location, but . . . well, I know it would look better with edges, but still . . . Use your imaginations.

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Upper East Side, Lexington Avenue Between 60th and 61st Streets

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Time for a new walk. Last Friday, I took my camera out at lunchtime, took the No. 6 to 59th Street and walked up Lexington to the 68th Street stop, then back to the office.

I don't look forward to the avenues as much as the side streets because they're wider, so it's hard to shoot across the street, and they're often not as interesting as the smaller side streets. But Lexington is different.

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Inwood, Just off Broadway Between Isham and 212th Streets

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And so back home. But what's this then? Remember, back in February when it looked like this? (Scroll down.)

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Washington Heights, Broadway at 178th Street

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Okay, so this is no bus terminal, but it does have a certain minimalist appeal, don't you think?

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Washington Heights, Broadway Between 179th and 178th Streets

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I have crossed from St. Nicholas Avenue to Broadway at 182nd Street and I'm walking down Broadway to 175th and over to Ft. Washington Avenue where I'll take the A train home.

This is the George Washington Bus Terminal and the reason it is not famous as an architectural landmark, so they say, is because it is a bus terminal and the bus goes to New Jersey. Please go to nyc-architecture to become properly impressed. The architect was Pier Luigi Nervi. Note that you must scroll down past the GW Bridge information to get to the bus terminal. To see more of my shots of the terminal go here.

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Washington Heights, 182nd Street Between St. Nicholas and Wadsworth Avenues

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And here's your ordinary everyday schoolyard fence.

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Washington Heights, 182nd Street Between St. Nicholas and Wadsworth Avenues

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Lots of street art in these blocks. There was the long mural at the Rite-Aid I posted on August 8, and here are two more. It's funny how we've come to accept them (haven't we?), and yet it's quite a remarkable phenomenon. These are paintings on the sides of buildings, folks! Just your everyday ordinary building.

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Washinigton Heights, St. Nicholas Avenue at 180th Street

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One of the more eye-catching displays I've seen.
Sometimes I leave the enlargement over-big so that it runs off the screen, because I think seeing the detail is worth losing the whole picture. This is one of those times.

Washington Heights, St. Nicholas Avenue Between 176th and 177th Streets

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Had a lovely vacation in North Carolina which included daily naps (a component of my ideal life).

Now back to the streets. This is still the walk in Washington Heights, Sunday, August 5th.

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Washington Heights, St. Nicholas Avenue Between 173rd and 174th Streets

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This will be the last shot until next Tuesday. I'm going to see my brother and sister-in-law in North Carolina. Heading south in August.

Look through the archives until I come back. There will be a quiz.

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Washington Heights, 172nd Street at St. Nicholas Avenue

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If I had gotten only these two shots, I think I would've been happy.

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Washington Heights, St. Nicholas Avenue Between 170th and 171st Streets

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Now I've turned up St. Nicholas Avenue; you can see the back of McDonald's at far left. You may have noticed that so far the streets have very few people on them. It's about 11 a.m., I think. This will change, but I don't know if it's because of the later time or the changed location.

Notice the Rite-Aid at the right. I'm showing you a closeup below because this is a kind of street art I haven't seen before. The background is made up of brushy strokes in orange and yellow and then the wall is covered with Spanish written in white, even, neat lines. If you enlarge the photo and you know Spanish, you can read it. If you can, please tell me what it says.



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Washington Heights, 170th Street Between Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue

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Ah, Sunday morning in the park. Or square.

That's Duarte Square, a tiny little park opposite the very short block that McDonald's is on. I'm giving you the above link to Duarte Square so you can read up on Juan Pablo Duarte of Dominican Republican fame. However the statue and the square referred to in the New York City Parks link is downtown between Canal and Grand Streets. I'm here to tell you there's a Duarte Square uptown as well, and it's official, with its own New York City Park sign with maple leaf.

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Washington Heights, 170th Street Between Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue

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It's not that I'm a fan of McDonald's; I just like the way it's grabbed the entire tiny block here. Yes, that is a block. It's where Broadway veers off to the west and exchanges streets with St. Nicholas Avenue, which continues where Broadway would have if it hadn't veered off. Check your maps.

This was yesterday, Sunday morning. I looked over my map and decided to clear up some raggedy edges so I took the train to 168th, walked up Broadway a couple of blocks, then came back and walked up St. Nicholas to 182nd Street, then across to Broadway and back down to the A train at 175th. This was to fill in little patches on my map. You just cannot walk these streets efficiently, although you could probably do it more efficiently than I do.

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Inwood, Nagle Avenue between Academy and Dyckman Streets

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I see this little guy at the window about 12' from the ground and take a few shots and a woman comes over to me and asks me if I want a kitten or two. That's the grandfather she says. No, no, I already have two, I say. So we chat a bit and then she runs upstairs to show me the rest of the family.




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This is the mother of the kittens.

Sorry, no shots of the kittens; they were asleep.




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Inwood, Nagle Avenue Between 204th and Academy Streets

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I take a lot more photographs than I show. You know that. This is the ONLY shot I took on Nagle between 204 and Academy. Think how it would be living next to the train tracks, window level.

Was that scene in one of Woody's movies?

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Sorry, I can't post a photograph to Blogger tonight. I'll try again tomorrow morning.

Inwood, Tenth Avenue Between 206th and 204th Streets

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Here's one of those close-up, carefully composed, buffed and polished, almost abstract, two dimensional photographs that I'm attracted to.




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And here is its home. Real life. I wanted you to see the word status at the top of the building. That word was also in the first photo of this shoot, but atop a different building. You must enlarge it to see it.


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Tenth Avenue Between 205th and 204th Streets

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Hm. Does anyone know if these chickens taste better?

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