Museum of the City of New York
Lately I've let my camera take the lead on my walks through New York. There is so much history written in the buildings: a faded paper company sign on a midtown building; a white gate that stands out in a sea of green ones in Soho. Signs of what once was and is now something else...and may one day transform into businesses and industries unknown today. And if I get in trouble at Armani for taking pictures of their beautiful Gaudi-esque staircase, so be it.
Architecture is an interesting phenomena in this city, almost like trophies of golden ages past, of companies that were once thought of as indestructible and only proved to fade away after they'd made their mark on the city that never sleeps. I just read a great
New York Magazine article about it, where they say:
"We live surrounded by the emblems of hubris, glittering corporate skyscrapers arranged on the skyline like trophies on a mantel. What fulminator could resist the delicious irony of two high-rise financial headquarters nearing completion just as the corporations that erected them fall to their knees? Bank of America, the country’s largest bank, is putting the finishing touches on the city’s second-tallest tower, a gracious, twisting paperweight at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street. And Goldman Sachs is quietly slipping a 43-story glass scepter into Battery Park City."
New York is like a graveyard devoted to the notion that nothing lasts forever, as well as the fact that life (and this city) always goes on. Everyone here leases time and power until the city moves on without them. Not even the Rockefellers could last. And those that leave architectural marks keep the city gleaming for generations of workers to come, while they themselves hold on tight until they too, fade away.
Let's take a walk together...
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New York
Upper East Side Garden
New York Times Building - Midtown
Times Square
Times Square
Virgin Megastore Closes in Times Square
Armani 5th Avenue by Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas
Armani 5th Avenue by Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas
Armani 5th Avenue by Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas
Fifth Avenue Fog
Fifth Avenue Fog
Publisher in Midtown
Playful shadows - Midtown off of 8th Avenue
Candylike Clean
Somewhere near 18th Street and 7th Avenue
Broadway and 12th Street
Jersey City from the Financial District
Financial District
Financial District
Sunset in the Upper West Side
Sunrise in the Upper West Side
Sunrise in the Upper West Side
Church in the West Village
Church in the West Village
Soho
Singer turned Mango
Building built on top of building - Soho
Shop Window - Soho
Houston Street
Small Soho street
Blue Shutters - Soho
Pop Art - Soho
Soho
Soho
Soho
Apple does Soho
Faded sign - Soho
Single white gate - Soho
Queens
Queens
Queens Subway
