Before last night, I had not noticed that a view directly down Metropolitan Avenue from the border of my neighborhood led directly to One World Trade Center, or Freedom Tower. There was a brief but intense rain shortly before this shot, which created this rather stunning sky. Exiting from the subway on my way home,…
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Category Archives: BuildingsA simple photo, but I’m captivated by the simplicity of the altar. Overall the building is fairly ornate for a parish church as the other photos from the series will attest, but the focal point is quite simple. Tweet I’ve always thought that the word for symmetry should be a palindrome, which explains the post title. It’s not elegant, but it’s a start. This is the lobby of the Courtyard Marriott in downtown Denver near the 16th Street Mall. I stayed there the last night of the nXnw adventure before I flew home to… The bottom image is the space once occupied by the Empire Diner, which I had a chance to shoot here before it closed in May 2010. For a while it reopened under the name Highliner, but that did not last, and I understand it will reopen later this year under chef Amanda Freitag. The…  Strictly speaking, the adjective “metropolitan” simply means having the characteristics or features of a city and its surrounding areas. But it has also carried a connotation of sophistication and perhaps even glamour. Well, this scene from Metropolitan Avenue just on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn/Queens border lives up to the strict definition, but… 
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