A few random images from our trip up to Connecticut over the Memorial Day weekend. Wilton, Connecticut My Brooklyn Bridge fireworks image in good company,Wilton, Connecticut Old house • Westbrook, Connecticut New house • Westbrook, Connecticut Westbrook, Connecticut Brendan and me, Westbrook, Connecticut

Dutch architecture in the Saturday New York Times. One of the most prominent of the so-called baby Rems (Rem Koolhaas) is the firm of Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk. I first came across Neutelings’ work while photographing design models for a building on Mercatorplein, a public square, in Amsterdam. His proposal seemed a little […]

Prince Street Flip flop weather.

Long Island City I wasn’t familiar with the French designer/architect Jean Prouvé until several years ago when I photographed an auction house in New York that was selling some of his furniture. He is well-known in France, less so over here. When I read that his Maison Tropicale, a metal kit house, was on display […]

Houston and Broadway More randomness moving about town. New posts on the way.

Grand Ferry Park, the Williamsburg BridgeTook a long walk through Williamsburg the other day. It’s a neighborhood that, some years ago, supplanted the Lower East Side as a haven for creative newcomers to New York. Depending on your perspective, it is either already over, or it is just coming into its own. In any case, […]

Lafayette and Houston Streets Random New York street scene.

On the Lower East Side along Houston Street there are numerous buildings going up. One is a real monster, designed by the ubiquitous Costas Kondylis, towering above Katz’s Deli. This is your basic bland Manhattan high rise, the kind of building occupied by people you never meet, planted in a neighborhood where funky and chic […]

New photographs of the Lower East Side. I continue to work on this never-ending project, still looking for a venue for showing this–I think–extraordinary encapsulation of New York history. It is important for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that the Lower East Side is America’s quintessential immigrant neighborhood, a portal […]

Bond Street In my comings and goings to and from my apartment/office on the east side, I often walk through Noho, the relatively small area of loft buildings hemmed in by the East Village, Greenwich Village, and Little Italy (Nolita). For years, the neighborhood was dotted with small, odd, seemingly temporary structures, auto shops, gas […]

Essex and Stanton Streets on the Lower East Side Spring finally blooms in New York.