I find myself in New York three or four times per year. These are photos from multiple stops there in reacent years. These photos tend to focus on transit and public space much moreso than skyscrapers, so hopefully that's your cup of tea. If not, I'll be happy to refund your price of admission!
Here we go
Anyone with a brain traveling between DC & NY takes either a discount bus or Amtrak. If you have planned ahead, these options are both excellent. The downside of them: Their pricing structure rewards paying early, and punishes day-of walk-ups.
Well, I tend to do these trips on short-notice, making those modes bad options for me. But I'm not going to drive into Manhattan. So what I usually end up doing is parking in New Jersey and taking NJ Transit's regional rail.
Thus here you have mighty Secaucus Junction, virtually unknown outside the Northeast, but it would be the greatest train station for hundreds of miles around in most of the country.
On one trip, I made a mockingbird friend here at Secausus. This little fella was stuck in the stairway vestibule, trying to find a way out the window. So I scooped him up, let the little girl watching in amazement pat him on the head, and helped him outside. He didn't mock me at all.
Anyway, I'll post some more Northern NJ stuff another time. New Penn Station here we go.
New York's absolutely the US leader in reclaiming street space from cars.
Bethesda Terrace and others from Central Park:
The new 2nd Ave subway:
OK OK, skyscrapers.
I am absolutely here for the Union triumphalism.
Fountains and statues of naked people: A+
The Little Island, a man-made island floating off the edge of Manhattan, with a park.
Greenwich:
SoHo:
How about some Queens? If you hang out at the shoreline of Astoria Park, you get a killer view of the Hellgate Bridge, which carries Amtrak's Northeast Corridor over the East River. That's the Triborough Bridge in the background.
Acelaaaaaa
This is the Triborough but I'm not gonna lie, I'm including it for the seagull.
Did you know Astoria Park has a feral parrot flock? Yes it does! Monk parrots. They're adorable.
Queens is the Northeast DC of New York.
Back to Manhattan. Brief stop in the Tenderloin:
Up to Harlem. 125th Street is the DC U Street of New York.
Philadelphia? Chicago? No, it's the Harlem Metro-North station.
Columbia barely counts as the Ivy League.
My favorite thing about that joke is it works for 5 of the 8 Ivy League schools.
And you know exactly which 5.
My cell phone has a wide angle lens and let me tell you, Grand Central begs for the wide angle lens.
New York's subway may not be as photogenic as DC's soaring Metro vaults, but it's got its angles for sure:
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