What's Life Like in New York City?

[chac54]

Amazing pictures! What do you use for a camera?

 

[mikeyank]

Amazing pictures! What do you use for a camera?

Thank you Chac. It is an iPhone 11. It is my first iPhone and it does have an amazing camera.

 

[mikeyank]

I just returned from a quick trip into Manhattan this morning to meet an out of town friend at his hotel in Times Square. It occurred to me that the last time I was there was during the holidays when I saw the Rockefeller Center tree and the Christmas Village in Bryant Park.

Here are some pics from this morning, June 25, exactly six months since Christmas.

 

[kgmets]

I just returned from a quick trip into Manhattan this morning to meet an out of town friend at his hotel in Times Square. It occurred to me that the last time I was there was during the holidays when I saw the Rockefeller Center tree and the Christmas Village in Bryant Park.

Here are some pics from this morning, June 25, exactly six months since Christmas.

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Nice pics!

 

[br6205]

Those picture are a great reminder of my many visits there when living in the Bronx.

 

[tampa24]

Beautiful pics!

 

[mikeyank]

Beautiful pics!

Thanks Tampa. You did start this thread asking about life in New York City, so I appreciate that you are enjoying my visual answers to your question. And I’m having a lot of fun using my still relatively new iPhone camera to capture the images, to share with you and anyone else who is looking at this thread.

 

[chac54]

Thanks Tampa. You did start this thread asking about life in New York City, so I appreciate that you are enjoying my visual answers to your question. And I’m having a lot of fun using my still relatively new iPhone camera to capture the images, to share with you and anyone else who is looking at this thread.

I'm watching for updates, you take really cool pictures!

 

[mikeyank]

I'm watching for updates, you take really cool pictures!

That’s very kind of you to say, Chac. As I travel about the city I will take pics and post them here. Thank you guys for your interest in my “hometown album”.

 

[tampa24]

Thanks Tampa. You did start this thread asking about life in New York City, so I appreciate that you are enjoying my visual answers to your question. And I’m having a lot of fun using my still relatively new iPhone camera to capture the images, to share with you and anyone else who is looking at this thread.

I'm so glad this thread has had some legs and that you have continued to contribute my friend. The photos are great. Not only are your photog skills great...with proper angles, framing, scale and so on... But the iphone photo quality just looks like top-notch professional grade technology. Hollywood used to film and photograph with much lesser quality technology than the current iphones.

 

[mikeyank]

Atlantic Avenue is one of the longer streets in New York City. It stretches from Jamaica, Queens for 5.5 miles to the East River. The end near the East River is near where I live in Brooklyn Heights. It is the dividing line between Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill, the next neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn, just south of here.

Today I was out doing some chores and took a picture from the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Street.



I love the design of the building on the corner.



I just researched it now for the first time and found this out about it.

“160 ATLANTIC AVENUE, AKA 191 CLINTON STREET

Ebenezer L. Roberts
1871

This stately building was originally constructed for the South Brooklyn Savings Bank, which moved to a larger building at 130 Court Street (site # 13) in 1922. The bank had a number of influential board members, including merchant James Van Nostrand and businessman and politician James S. T. Stranahan, who, during his time as president of the Brooklyn Park Commission, was largely responsible for securing funding and support for the creation of Prospect Park. The Neo-Grec style, Tuckahoe Marble-clad building features round and square pilasters, corner quoins, arched windows supported by colonettes, and a bracketed cornice. Many of its original details have been lost, however, including a two-story pedimented temple front entrance and a balustrade with decorative urns on the roof. The ground floor has also been remodeled. The bank interior had been clad in marble and black walnut woodwork, but was refurbished many times over the years to accommodate new uses. The buildings are located in the Cobble Hill Historic District.”

I also love the building next to it.



I can’t find much information online except an incomplete sentence, “ John Curtin's on Atlantic near Henry. Starting in 1869, back when Atlantic Ave was a major port, Curtin's store made sails and sold can……..”

I’ve lived here since 1976 and only in recent years have I stopped to really look at the historic buildings all around me.

 

[br6205]

TY, Mike for the pictures & information.

 

[mikeyank]

I was out again on this beautiful early summer afternoon, and I passed beautiful Brooklyn Borough Hall, which used to be Brooklyn City Hall, before Brooklyn joined New York City in 1898. The building is still spectacular!



And next to Borough Hall is an old-fashioned kiosk elevator access to the Borough Hall Station.



And the mall in front of the court houses and the post office with the Manhattan Bridge peeking out in the background.

 

[tampa24]

Thanks Mikey!

 

[br6205]

Thank you, Mike.

 

[mikeyank]

Ferry to Rockaway Beach - Part 1

Today on the last day of June, I took a New York City ferry with my friend from Brooklyn’s Sunset Park Pier to Rockaway Beach, a thirty-five minute ride to the beach for the cost of a subway fare, $2.75.

We passed under The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge which connects Brooklyn to Staten Island, and saw a container ship under the bridge.





We saw the famous Coney Island amusement park beach.





The ferry continued under the Marine Park Bridge as we approached Rockaway.



And the first site on land was a guy selling marijuana from his truck.

 

[mikeyank]

Ferry to Rockaway Beach - Part 2

Next was lunch at The Rockaway Beach ahitel.



A walk along the boardwalk.













And the ferry ride back to Brooklyn.

 

[chac54]

Today on the last day of June, I took a New York City ferry with my friend from Brooklyn’s Sunset Park Pier to Rockaway Beach, a thirty-five minute ride to the beach for the cost of a subway fare, $2.75.

We passed under The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge which connects Brooklyn to Staten Island, and saw a container ship under the bridge.

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We saw the famous Coney Island amusement park beach.

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The ferry continued under the Marine Park Bridge as we approached Rockaway.

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And the first site on land was a guy selling marijuana from his truck.

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LOL they sell marijuana from the back of a van??!!

Great pictures!!

 

[mikeyank]

Ferry to Rockaway Beach - Part 2

Next was lunch at The Rockaway Beach ahitel.

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A walk along the boardwalk.

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And the ferry ride back to Brooklyn.

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[mikeyank]

LOL they sell marijuana from the back of a van??!!

Great pictures!!

I was as surprised as you are as it is not even legal to sell in New York yet. It is decriminalized but not legal to sell. And thank you Chac for your complement.