CAN HIGHLIGHT SOCIAL ISSUES
There is some kind of cruel ironic message about the gap between haves and have nots here.
Gianni Versace luxury brand box serves as part of roof of homeless tent
city in the once affordable now hip Bairro Arroios of Lisbon.
We just celebrated Thanksgiving.
Let's dedicate ourselves to solving the housing crisis.
SUMMER IN THE CITY
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity?
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
EAST VILLAGE, NYC
Funky Town
seems to fill a wide variety of needs of St. Mark’s Place habitues.
There are convenience
store items.
There are
tons of cool punk rock, new wave and other rock band T-shirts, stickers and
patches.
In the back,
they do body piercing.
All around,
there are bongs, vaping gear and other things we used to call head shop
products.
Also a lot
of cheap sunglasses and nice, patient, polite workers there.
EAST VILLAGE, NYC
Search &
Destroy is a legendary punk rock clothing and accessories boutique.
Yes, that’s
a bunch of dolls stacked in the window to look like dead, well…
And you probably
see something vulgar in the image – half the photos on the entry foyer/door are
obscene and it doesn’t get any less raw inside.
Famed for
high prices and surly workers – plus dozens of signs telling you NOT to snap a
picture inside – we’re not sure how this far from wheelchair-accessible, worst customer
service in the neighborhood place survives.
But it is
highly photogenic and part of the nabe’s punk history.
EAST VILLAGE, NYC
Established in 1990, Andromeda Studio 33 bills itself as one of the oldest and original bod mod shops in USA.
We hate
tattoos, but love the colorful façade and characters at this walkup space.
EAST VILLAGE, NYC
Theatre 80
carries on a generational cultural function, which has helped to create the
East Village from the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
When Theatre
80 was first envisioned and built at 80 Saint Marks Place, the neighborhood of
the Lower East Side was a blighted area and the term East Village had yet to be
coined.
We were
among the first of the cultural institutions, which began the Lower East Side
Arts Movement resulting in the neighborhood now being referred to as the East
Village.
Beginning
during Prohibition, 80 Saint Marks Place was a vital destination for performers
of all kinds.
Jazz greats
such as Thelonious Monk, Harry “Sweets” Edison, John Coltrane and Frank
Sinatra performed here before Theatre 80 was established in the former nightclub.
--from Theatre 80's website. There's also a gangster museum upstairs.
EAST VILLAGE, NYC
St. Mark's
Place, named after the nearby St. Mark’s Church
in-the-Bowery, is part of Eighth Avenue in Lower Manhattan. It’s named St. Mark’s
Place between Third Avenue and Avenue A.
Still the
land of misfits, it draws as many tourists and locals and the rents are no
longer low.
A cloud of
perpetual weed smell hangs in the air and competes with the scent of many Asian
restaurants and other cuisine.
Referenced
in the Replacement’s ode to the late Alex Chilton -- Checkin' his stash by the
trash at St. Mark's place – the few blocks of history and discord also played
host to great Broad City episode.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE IN THE WORLD
The Chrysler
Building was the world’s tallest building for 11 months before it was
surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE IN THE WORLD
The Chrysler
Building's stainless-steel cladding is ribbed and riveted in a radiating sunburst
pattern with many triangular vaulted windows, transitioning into smaller
segments of the seven narrow setbacks of the facade of the terraced crown.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE IN THE WORLD
The Chrysler Building is renowned and recognized for its terraced crown.
Composed of
seven radiating terraced arches, Van Alen’s design of the crown is a cruciform
groin vault constructed into seven concentric members with transitioning
setbacks, mounted up one behind the other.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE IN THE WORLD
Standing 1047
feet high, the Chrysler Building houses 77 floors, including a lobby
three stories high.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE IN THE WORLD
The Chrysler
Building was designed by architect William Van Alen for a project of
Walter P. Chrysler.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE IN THE WORLD
The Chrysler
Building is an art deco skyscraper on the east side of Manhattan
at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue.
TIMELESS NEW YORK ART DECO SINCE 1931
Photo composed
after dusk, taken from Hunter’s Point in Queens, looking southwest across the East
River.
TIMELESS NEW YORK ART DECO SINCE 1931
Image taken from the observation deck of the Edge at Hudson Yards -- crosstown near the Hudson
River, looking east toward Queens and the East River.
TIMELESS NEW YORK ART DECO SINCE 1931
We title this image “God and Commerce” – with the Empire State Building dwarfing the church in the foreground.
TIMELESS NEW YORK ART DECO SINCE 1931
The Empire
State Building stood as the world's tallest building until the construction of
the World Trade Center in 1970.
Following
its collapse in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the city's tallest
skyscraper until 2012.
TIMELESS NEW YORK ART DECO SINCE 1931
The 90-year-old building
has a roof height of 1,250 feet and stands a total of 1,454 feet tall,
including its antenna.
TIMELESS NEW YORK ART DECO SINCE 1931
The Empire State Building is a 102-story art deco skyscraper designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931.
RANDOM IMAGES THAT SAY ROMA
Colorful
Trastevere
Funky, bohemian
