Category: Architecture

Cotton Club

125th St under Riverside Drive, New York

Just imported the first set of images from my camera since returning to England and discovered a couple of last day stragglers from New York.

Not the “The Cotton Club [that] was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City… located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown Theater District until 1940. [That] club operated during the United States’ era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation. Black people initially could not patronize the Cotton Club.” more at Wikipedia.

Work and Pensions

Queen Square, Brighton

Just found these 2 images lingering on the chip in an older camera. The interaction of sunlight with this building at the end of our street in Brighton, housing the Department of Work and Pensions and a Job Centre (most of whose workers seemed to spend a lot of their time taking smoke breaks directly under our windows), often stuck me as offering photographic possibilities, though I never captured them.

Bibliophiles

New York Public Library – Stephen A Schwarzman Building

This is one of the ceilings in the main public library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. Remarkably for one who’s lived in NY for over 60 years, and whose birth was announced in the library’s employee newsletter, I’d never been inside before doing some research a week or so ago in the Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.