In Plain Sight

  • Someone Planted a Bicycle Garden in Queens!

    Someone Planted a Bicycle Garden in Queens!

    Note: this has since been removed. I was driving along Vernon Blvd in Queens when I spotted something you don’t usually see under the 59th Street Bridge… A bicycle garden! Or, to be specific, a row of flowers made out of old bike parts: Very inventive stuff – check out this sunflower… The group responsible…

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  • A Rainbow at 22 Stories Up

    A Rainbow at 22 Stories Up

    I’ve been scouting midtown office spaces recently, many of which have had some pretty great views of the city like the one below. I’m a big fan of buildings with ornamentation that is essentially invisible from the street, and I happened to notice something neat on the roof of the building at 108 East 38th…

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  • Brooklyn’s Mansion on the East River

    Brooklyn’s Mansion on the East River

    I was walking down Hudson Ave today in Brooklyn’s Vinegar Hill neighborhood when I realized I’d never taken any of the roads leading east. Why not? I guess I’ve always just assumed everything in that corner of Brooklyn to be ConEd-type utility plants, never a good place to do any sort of filming. Always looking…

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  • Latest NYC Graffiti Helps You Take Good Pictures!

    Latest NYC Graffiti Helps You Take Good Pictures!

    There’s a pretty great photo op of the Empire State Building at 33rd & Park – at least, when New York isn’t inundated with snow like it was today. If you’d like to recreate the above angle, it should be pretty simple… Someone marked the spot for you! Nice. Apparently, the same stencil can be…

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