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Category Archives: Cities
 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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 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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 Sunday morning I trekked up to the High Bridge section of Manhattan. I was not able to get the shot I wanted of the High Bridge itself, because the Bridge is undergoing renovation and you cannot get too close, but I did get this unexpected view of the Hells Gate bridge and the little decorative…
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 It has not been a particularly rough or mild winter here in NY. It seems to have been average so far both in terms of snow and cold. But I’m ready for it to be over. It doesn’t help that my family and I decided to delay our winter break trip to Orlando, which would…
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 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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