architecture – Page 3

Ambassador Lounge

Surplus to requirements under the current administration.

With over 500 images still to sort through from last month’s California visit, we’ll be ramping up to 2 or 3 posts a day till we get through them all.

As part of my project on the gentrification of my old neighborhood (upper Yorkville and lower East Harlem) I was visiting sites from my childhood. I didn’t remember this structure and asked some men who were hanging out near here on a bench about it. They told me it was one of a handful of backup generators that had been installed since Hurricane Sandy for the surrounding public housing apartment complex.

Houses

Who says New York is all high-rise apartment blocks?

Let Me Out of Here!

Bas reliefs on either side of the door of what looks like a luxury apartment building that must have been renovated in an old stable or carriage house.

Crossed Lines

New Wing

I’ve probably posted pictures of this new wing of the American Museum of Natural History before. It actually opened while I was living abroad and I haven’t been in yet. Is it just me, or does every new museum building have a requirement to emulate Frank Gehry’s Bilbao swoopy, rounded look?

Urban Exoticism

I had a cousin who was an optician. He offered me an after-school job at his shop. He told me he’d teach me how to work the lens-grinding machine but to be careful lest I fall in and make a spectacle of myself.

Some more urban night shots from the archive.

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