At 4:15pm on this unseasonably warm winter day, noticing it was getting dark out, I rushed over to the 90th Street entrance to the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, the best spot to watch the sunset.  To my surprise, hords of tourists were gathered there photographing themselves in front of the view which is so remarkable [...]

The U.E.S. Journal has acquired two original engineers’ photographs of subway construction under The Upper East Side in 1914.  Visit the “old photos” section of P.U.E.S. to see more…
Under 60th and Lex, 1914.

I saw this for sale on Overstock.com several years ago and thought it was so weird I dragged the images to my desktop.  I just came across them again this week.

by Theodore Ward Barrow
Allow me, if you please, to paint a picture for you.  This picture will be painted in the pinkest of hues, and the mintiest of greens.  These colors will burn brightly and they will burn shortly, and their breath-taking incandescence will be a momentary flicker of exalted heavenly light, before it passes [...]

Vanity plate on 73rd and Madison Avenue sent by David Shamoon.

I was just walking up Fifth Avenue from The Met with notorious Upper West Sider, Theodore Ward Barrow, when Mr. Barrow exclaimed, “Look at that pink!”  There was a beautifully intense pink glow on the pail stone buildings extending up the East Side of the Avenue.

We stopped for a moment of appreciation and I took [...]

Rudy Burkhardt, Pedestrians, New York City, 1939
Photo via Met Museum
There’s a show up at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of which I’ve come back to three times because I enjoy it so much, maybe I can convince you to come see it too…
New York, N. Why? (1940) is a handmade scrapbook of silver-gelatin photographs Rudy [...]

Kinda weird since there aren’t as many Judith’s around these days.
Leiber on the West (Left), Ripka on the East of Madison Avenue at 61st Street.

Outside Marche on Madison

I just voted at P.S. 169 on 88th Street between Park and Lex.
John Oliver, The Daily Show Correspondent, is outside interviewing voters. I won’t give away the bit since I’m sure it will be on tonight but it’s really funny. I assume the show is trying this poll site because it’s one of [...]