Category: Construction
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NY- Upper Westside Sidewalks and Windows
Photos of construction and store windows on the Upper Westside in the low morning sun.
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NY- World Trade Center Construction
NY- World Trade Center Construction as seen from the Winter Garden
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NY- A walk to Artkraft Strauss Sign Corp
NY- A walk to Artkraft Strauss Sign Corp
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NY- 99 Luftballoons
Well maybe not 99 but there was one floating over the new Atelier Jean Nouvel Building and its older brother the IAC Headquarters in Chelsea today.
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NY- Canstruction at the Wintergarden
I ran in too this oddly fascinating little show called Canstruction while I was shooting the Christmas decorations in the World Financial Plaza’s Wintergarden today. Kids compete to build the best structure out of canned goods. It is sponsored by the Society For Design Administration and they donate the food to City Harvest after the…
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NY- Tadashi Kawamata’s Tree Houses in Madison Square Park
People have already started making the trek to Madison Square Park to see the latest installation of Bloomberg Public Art. Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata is filling the tree tops with old fashioned forts, like the ones we built as kids, and in doing so is doing his part to make affordable housing a reality in…
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NY- Meatpacking District- Construction Crane in action
NY- Meatpacking District- Construction Crane
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NY- Construction of the West 72nd Street Off Ramp
Actually the off ramp was deconstructed and now they are building the pillar to connect Riverside Boulevard with With Riverside Drive.
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NY- Riverside Church Covered in Scaffolding
This has got to be one of the craziest scaffolding jobs I have ever seen. They wrapped the entire body of Riverside Church. If I was crazy I’d ask them to climb it and take pictures, but I’ll leave that to the pros like Mark Menditto, who takes fantastic pictures of New York.
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NY- A great place to watch the construction at Ground Zero
With winter fast approaching a great place to see the construction at Ground Zero is The Winter Garden at The World Financial Center. It’s always warm and dry and has plenty of shops and restaurants to boot.
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NY- West 96th Street Subway Station Construction
It is days like today that a car and driver would make life so much easier. Having lived through the reconstruction of the W72nd Street subway station I can now enjoy the fruits of the MTA’s labor. But it was a terrible year and a half of limited access, narrow stairways, and torn up platforms.…
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NY- Preparations for 9-11 Memorial
Preparations are being made for tomorrow’s 9/11 Memorial, the reading of the names of the victims at Ground Zero.