GoneWithTheWind
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I agree that education isn’t everything, but I can’t tell you how many recruiters I have to beat off with a stick just because of my engineering degree.
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What's Life Like in New York City?
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Glad for you but my science-math degrees did not do that for me. I got the over qualified excuse.
mikeyank
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Life is filled with dichotomies. You post images of young naked and semi nude guys in perfect shape. I could ask why you don’t include older out of shape guys? This thread like the threads you post on are to share pleasing to the eye beautiful images. The world is filled with ugliness, but also great beauty. Just as you like to share your idea of beauty on the things that you post, so do I on mine.
I was not referring to your postings & appologize if you mistook my intent. This referred to a remark GWTW made and was a direct response to his postings. I in no way wanted to criticize any one for their posting and by the way I do post images of players I don't find attractive if I find a relevant reason to do so.
mikeyank
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Today was a great day to be outside and I went on a walk to the most northernmost parts of Manhattan, in Washington Heights, and two spectacular parks, Fort Tryon Park and Inwood Hills Park.
First was the 67 acre Fort Tryon Park right on the banks of the Hudson River. It was the property of CK Billings in the early 1900’s and in 1917, John D. Rockefeller bought the land and donated it to New York City who hired the Olmsted brothers, the sons of the co-designer of Central Park and Prospect Parks to design this park.
These are my pics today from Fort Tryon Park.
First was the 67 acre Fort Tryon Park right on the banks of the Hudson River. It was the property of CK Billings in the early 1900’s and in 1917, John D. Rockefeller bought the land and donated it to New York City who hired the Olmsted brothers, the sons of the co-designer of Central Park and Prospect Parks to design this park.
These are my pics today from Fort Tryon Park.
mikeyank
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And a few miles north is Inwood Hill Park, which is actually wooded trails in the hills of the northern piece of Manhattan right out to the Henry Hudson Bridge which crosses over into The Bronx.
From Wikipedia:
”On a high schist ridge that rises 200 feet (61 m) above the Hudson River from Dyckman Street to the northern tip of the island, Inwood Hill Park's densely folded, glacially scoured topography contains the largest remaining old-growth forest on Manhattan Island, known as the Shorakapok Preserve after an historic Wecquaesgeek village. other Manhattan parks, Inwood Hill Park is largely natural and consists of mostly wooded, non-landscaped hills.”
And here are my pics from today:
From Wikipedia:
”On a high schist ridge that rises 200 feet (61 m) above the Hudson River from Dyckman Street to the northern tip of the island, Inwood Hill Park's densely folded, glacially scoured topography contains the largest remaining old-growth forest on Manhattan Island, known as the Shorakapok Preserve after an historic Wecquaesgeek village. other Manhattan parks, Inwood Hill Park is largely natural and consists of mostly wooded, non-landscaped hills.”
And here are my pics from today:
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mikeyank
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I was on a walk tonight in DUMBO, (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass).
mikeyank
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THose are really beautiful pics. Thank you for sharing my friend.
And thank you my friend for the compliment and for starting this thread giving me an opportunity to share my love for my beautiful city.
mikeyank
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I was in Lower Manhattan today to visit the Jackie Robinson Museum on Varick Street and Canal. I was early as my friends were driving in from Long Island and I explored a bit of the nearby neighborhood of SoHo, (south of Houston Street). I walked along West Broadway and checked out some of the galleries and shops and checked out the cast iron architecture. It is a most interesting part of the city.
mikeyank
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Yesterday, I was on another walking tour, this time in the neighborhoods in Manhattan of SoHo and NoHo, (South of Houston Street and North of it). They are in lower Manhattan, north of the City Hall area, but south and slightly east of Greenwich Village. The two neighborhoods, particularly SoHo are known for their Cast Iron architecture.
In the 17th century the area was farmland north of the original heart of the city at the southern tip of Manhattan, later it became homes for the wealthy and in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution, it became a large manufacturing area with easy access to the Hudson River. Later when industry moved out fo the city it became abandoned until artists moved into the abandoned warehouses in the 1960’s and 70’s and it became the home of art galleries.
In the last thirty or forty years it has become the home to boutiques and restaurants and is one of the big tourist areas in the city. I took some pics last night of the cast iron buildings which remain majestic in this modern era.
In the 17th century the area was farmland north of the original heart of the city at the southern tip of Manhattan, later it became homes for the wealthy and in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution, it became a large manufacturing area with easy access to the Hudson River. Later when industry moved out fo the city it became abandoned until artists moved into the abandoned warehouses in the 1960’s and 70’s and it became the home of art galleries.
In the last thirty or forty years it has become the home to boutiques and restaurants and is one of the big tourist areas in the city. I took some pics last night of the cast iron buildings which remain majestic in this modern era.
mikeyank
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We also saw the home of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in NoHo just off Bowery. He lived in Andy Warhol’s home which is commemorated with a plaque outside the graffiti covered wall.
From Wikipedia, “
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionismmovement.
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street artcoalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he was one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992.”
These are the pics I took last night of where he lived. By the way, he is buried in Greenwood Cemetary in Brooklyn, where his fans leave trinkets on his grave site every day. I’m pretty sure I posted pics of that somewhere else on this thread.
From Wikipedia, “
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionismmovement.
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street artcoalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he was one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992.”
These are the pics I took last night of where he lived. By the way, he is buried in Greenwood Cemetary in Brooklyn, where his fans leave trinkets on his grave site every day. I’m pretty sure I posted pics of that somewhere else on this thread.
BrokeStraightBoys
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Beautiful pictures thank you
mikeyank
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mikeyank
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I was on a walking tour of Red Hook Brooklyn earlier which concluded on Valentino Pier across the Upper Bay, directly facing The Statue of Liberty with Manhattan Island to the right. Here are pics I took right around 8 PM at sunset and shortly thereafter.
mikeyank
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Here are some of the pics I took in the neighborhood of Red Hook from my walking tour yesterday before the sunset pics I posted above. Red Hook is located on a peninsula in southwestern Brooklyn and is known for its diverse community, rich history, and unique geography. It was another of New York City’s waterfront communities whose economy was based on the dock workers and factories during the industrial age.
Today it has the remnants of the shipping era but also has a small town feel with little shops, bars and restaurants. It is isolated from the rest of Brooklyn with it’s own unique neighborhood vibe of a small town, while it’s only a couple of miles from sprawling high rise buildings of the rest of New York City.
Today it has the remnants of the shipping era but also has a small town feel with little shops, bars and restaurants. It is isolated from the rest of Brooklyn with it’s own unique neighborhood vibe of a small town, while it’s only a couple of miles from sprawling high rise buildings of the rest of New York City.
BrokeStraightBoys
BSB Owner
Great pics thank you.
mikeyank
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Thank you. My pleasure.
