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Somewhere over the rainbow, or Brooklyn

September 6, 2006 By pia



  

  

Magical cities, magical skies, magical lenses.

The most ordinary day can be magical when the sun shines, and it shone brightly last January.

I’m more nostalgic for this past winter and early spring than I normally would be, but the sun shone, and made everything seem more alive.

Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn*, Queens or Jersey looks more beautiful than it does from inside Manhattan itself. Sometimes it can seem enchanted.

*The pictures were taken there.

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Comments

  1. Bone says

    September 6, 2006 at 8:52 am

    The first should be a postcard. Truly beautiful. Pictures like this make me want to be in New York more than anything.

    Loving your titles lately, by the way.

  2. Ccooper says

    September 6, 2006 at 9:54 am

    Glad you’re enjoying photography and taking pictures of the city.

    Cover for you book??

  3. jacob says

    September 6, 2006 at 8:17 pm

    perfect.

    It looks much better than the NY I remember from the times I’ve visited.

  4. dan says

    September 6, 2006 at 8:53 pm

    I like the aforementioned book cover idea.

  5. Donald Douglas says

    September 7, 2006 at 1:19 am

    Very nice!

  6. Jonathan says

    September 7, 2006 at 5:07 am

    Excellent photos. I’m going to visit New York one day if it kills me (and yes, I know… a surprisingly high number of visitors to New York are killed every day) 🙂

  7. A says

    September 7, 2006 at 10:53 pm

    Jonathan — c’mon over, it (probably) won’t kill ya! 🙂

    Actually, the number of visitors killed in New York every day is surprisingly low: zero, in fact, on most days.

    The number of New Yorkers killed daily in New York, while depressingly high, is still lower per capita than the national average.

    So, head on out — keep your wallet in your front pocket, avoid prolonged eye contact with strangers on the street, and enjoy the show.

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As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

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Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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