Newtown Creek wastewater treatment plant (the eggs) — Greenpoint, BrooklynPolshek Partnership Architects — © Brian Rose Over the weekend I went to the Newtown Creek sewage plant to tour the famous digester eggs, iconic sludge stomachs that tower over Greenpoint and can be seen from many vantage points around the city. The tour was part […]

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Skyline from Long Island City — © Brian Rose A quick glance out the window while scouting for an upcoming architectural photo shoot.

Pelham Bay Park, the Bronx, 1984 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Soon after the Lower East Side project was completed in 1981 I began photographing Central Park, partly on my own, and partly working for the newly formed Central Park Conservancy. This led to further explorations of New York City’s parks focusing primarily on […]

Under the El in Bensonhurst — © Brian Rose I was in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn scouting for a client. I’m photographing a new cafeteria addition to a large public high school. The neighborhood around the subway stop is an absolutely crazy hodge podge of shops: King Henry’s entertainment kingdom, two pet stores–La Bella Pooch and the […]

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Tenth Avenue, Chelsea — © Brian Rose Windows for Jean Nouvel’s 100 Eleventh Avenue sit on a flatbed truck a few blocks from the construction site.

W27th Street — © Brian Rose W27th Street — © Brian Rose Two pictures made across the street from each other.

Nature as Artifice, Aperture Gallery — © Brian RoseNot since they established the city of Nieuw Amsterdam in the 17th century have the Dutch been such a presence in the city as now. Everywhere one turns there is yet another event tied to the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson, an Englishman hired […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Two pictures made a block apart.

Blurb party in Tribeca Last night I went to the Blurb party in New York. That’s me at the beginning of the video above taken from Darius Himes’s blog. Blurb as many of you probably know is an online service with tools for creating your own book, uploading it, and having it printed at very […]

Broadway — © Brian Rose The view from the lab window where I was making 40×50 inch prints for a client. This stretch of Broadway just below Canal Street still looks like it did 30 years ago.

Whig Hall, Princeton University — © Brian Rose Charles Gwathmey, who died a short time ago, became the quintessential establishment architect. In the wake of less than stellar projects like the Sculpture for Living at Astor Place and the US mission to the United Nations, it is easy to forget that he, and his compatriots, […]

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John Bartelstone and Ben Diep — © Brian Rose I’ve been to a couple of openings–one, a group show, at Aperture Gallery on Dutch landscape photography, and another, photographs of New York’s waterfront by Len Jenshel and Diane Cook. Both exhibits are worth writing about, so stay tuned for some comment once I’ve had a […]

West 4th Street basketball court (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Between games.

The Strand bookstore — © Brian Rose Without comment.