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Category Archives: Cities

Metropolitan

  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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Skating Through Life

Sorry for missing yesterday’s post. I ‘m having a busy week. Today’s image is one from roughly 18 months ago, which I picked today precisely because it required little work to get ready. Next week I might very well not post at all, but I fully expect to resume the following week if that in…

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Elfreth’s Alley Passageway

  Elfreth’s Alley is a small street in Philadelphia commonly known as America’s oldest residential street. I don’ think we know exactly when it first was built up, but there seems to be a consensus that it goes back to the early 1700s.  This is a of a passageway between two buildings on the alley….

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