courtesy of Hurricane Sandy. The fence surrounding St. James Park here in the Bronx wasn't the only piece of city property whacked by the falling branch...
It took out this traffic warning light, too! Here's how things used to look.
Remembering Troy Davis, Malcolm X, victims of Hurricane Sandy, and many others
Founded in 1999 by two homeless men, PTH advocates for the rights of the city's homeless and fights to end discriminatory legislation and law enforcement practices.
from beneath this difficult-to-describe structure in the Mount Eden Malls
A New Haven Line train makes its way south toward Manhattan.
This bifurcated roadway is the northern extension of Manhattan's famous Park Avenue.
I'm perched atop the Grand Concourse, facing west toward the intersection of 174th Street and Walton Avenue, with the Cross Bronx Expressway visible one level further down and the elevated Jerome Avenue Line cutting across the picture off in the distance. I wasn't too far away when I took this shot back in February, looking up at the spot where I'm now standing.
They must be trying to evoke that wonderful feeling of putting a twenty into a vending machine and realizing you're about to get twelve pounds of change.
As fall turns to winter, this very professionally installed boiler-in-a-trailer is bringing some warmth to the residents of an apartment building that seems to have a history of implementing jury-rigged solutions to remedy its deficiencies.
The Church of St. James, in the background, is a beautiful mid-19th-century Gothic Revival structure particularly notable for its stained-glass windows, which include works by Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Royal Bavarian Stained Glass Manufactory.
or else by mighty deed, They served mankind in noble character. In worldwide good they live forever more."
This is the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, the nation's original hall of fame. Standing on the grounds of Bronx Community College — which was, at the time of the Hall's dedication in 1901, the University Heights campus of New York University — it comprises an open-air colonnade and 98 bronze busts of famous Americans (four additional inductees from the 1970s are not sculpturally represented). In its heyday, the Hall was quite a prestigious institution, but it has largely fallen out of public consciousness over the past few decades. Its funding dried up after NYU abandoned the campus in 1973, and elections for new members have not been held since 1976.
All the planets in our solar system are represented here at Galileo Playground.
sits Yankee Stadium. You can just make out the "JETER" on a Derek Jeter banner, and the upper portion of the stadium, though largely invisible in the brightness of the sun, can be seen in its reflection on the hood of the Jeep.
An old, seemingly out-of-place house pokes its head up above all the low-lying storefronts that surround it on the east side of Gerard Avenue.
This presents another opportunity to direct everyone's attention to one of my favorite articles of all time.
but at least its support structure is.
Nik-O-Lok: Standing between bladders and toilets for more than 100 years.
of a very cool building that I know absolutely nothing about
Renowned for its sculpture-laden design, this massive beige block of bureaucracy now has a (partially) green roof.
