Changing Perception
When APT was in Providence last fall for the annual meeting, I took pictures of a building: In my research
A Hard Edge
I forget if hard edges – where a cityscape abruptly changes from one thing to another – are supposed to
Star-like
From a Brooklyn subway station constructed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, before it was renamed Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, a small
Buried
When I was new in this business, I asked a question about street utilities and first heard the name “Empire
Layers and Layers
From the NYPL photo album of the construction of the original IRT subway, “33rd Street & 4th Avenue” from January
So Very Close
The renovation of a 1910s apartment house (technically a New Law tenement, but somewhat nicer than the image that phrase
Spectacle
From September 1, 1954, Max Hubacher gives us “The Queen Elizabeth leaving New York”: It’s hard to tell where along
It Looked Familiar: Contrast
In Gotham, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers: In New York, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers, albeit without a crossing tower:
Last Weekend
A picture of white-out in Manhattan. Note that the sidewalk on the right, behind the bollards, is almost clear of
Demonstrated
A photo from San Francisco, some time in late April 1906: In the foreground, the ruins of an eight-story bearing-wall
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