Sunrise in the City
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Looking east.
Looking southwest.
No this way to the Dog Run
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Tompkins Square Park at the Temperance Fountain.
Trapped Drowning Baby
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
Stanton and Clinton Streets on the Lower east side, a completely ordinary building for this neighborhood. Something about one of the terracotta decorations caught my eye. I didn’t know what it was, it seemed a bit ugly, but looking at it closely it seems horrifying.
I don’t know what the artist’s intentions were but to me it looks like a drowning baby trapped under the debris of a sinking ship about to be eaten by fishes. Your interpretations may vary.
WTC1 Spire Grows
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Obscured by the surrounding cranes the spire has grown unnoticed by me.
Inside St. Brigid’s Church
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
I got to photograph the interior of the newly reopened St. Brigid’s Church on Avenue B.
The stained glass windows are especially striking. They all depict winged angels and saints.
These are the windows over the entrance on Avenue B.
The windows are beautifully done, and tasteful, there were no naked souls burning in purgatory like they had in my childhood church in Philadelphia. But the dull expression on their angel faces is a bit disturbing, they all looked bored, not even a sly smile on the musician angels.
Father Jomar Legaspi. I wish I hadn’t resorted to flash for the photo.
I didn’t notice them while I was there live, they are painted a color not to be obtrusive, but these cables stretching across the breadth of the church must be vital to keep the walls from going wide. The church was in danger of collapsing, before the renovation.
Look to the Skies
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Early morning looking east on East Houston Street. We’ve been having interesting skies the past few days in NYC.
A view on East 10th Street near the St. Mark’s Church of the new glass and steel going up on Astor Place.
Moon-set and sunrise. WTC1 is in the background.
Renovated St. Brigid’s first Mass
Sunday, January 27th, 2013
St. Brigid’s Church on Avenue B at 8th Street. The church is open again and fully renovated after almost being condemned for being structurally unsound. Today was the first public mass being said in the renovated church.
This is the first time I’ve seen the stained glass windows with light behind them.
The line to get in went way down 8th Street.
The mass was scheduled for 5PM but it took about 50 minutes to get everyone inside. The Archbishop was there, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, though I didn’t see him.
A party was being prepared in the basement.
EV Grieve has been covering the story of St. Brigid’s for a while.
WTC1 at Sunset
Sunday, January 20th, 2013
At first I was fairly sure I could see the steel lattice that is the first part of tower, but it was hard viewing it through the construction lattice.
In this photo from a month ago you can see the base of the tower on the scaffold.
Now it is not visible at all from my tenement roof. I think I can make out the round holes in the scaffold erected to assemble the tower elements. So when the tower reaches high enough I should be able to see it below the holes. I need to check more often to see if I can capture the cranes in action, transporting sections of the tower.
Peaceful Pano
Friday, January 18th, 2013
A view of the architecture of East 10th Street between Avenues A and B, viewed from within Tompkins Square Park. It’s a view only possible in winter with leaves and flowers off the branches. It’s about an 180 degree panorama, the buildings on the left and the right are on the Avenues and facing each other.
Xmas Tree Fire in front of Church
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
A fire broke out in front of the Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church on East 3rd Street. When I first arrived I heard sirens nearby and assumed that help was on its way. But those trucks were arriving, responding to a call just one block south of the church.
The neighbors had it under control before the first truck arrived, and I don’t think the limestone church, built in 1851) was ever in any real danger.
This guys actions dragging one of the burning Xmas trees away from the base of the live deciduous street tree, with his bare hands, probably saved the tree’s life.
Shortly afterwards another guy dragged a garden hose from across the street, and that brought it under control. The tree in front of the church got scorched but it should survive.
