{"id":8198,"date":"2019-06-18T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=8198"},"modified":"2019-06-18T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:30:02","slug":"new-yorkwest-side-highway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/new-yorkwest-side-highway-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/West Side Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside018a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside018a-700x552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside018a-700x552.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside018a-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside018a.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside018a-624x492.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>West Side Highway at 59th Street, 1985 &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>Two new scanned images from around 1985 when I roamed up the west side of Manhattan. The West Side Highway was torn down after a collapse of one section of the elevated viaduct. I remember walking it during the late 70s. I have a few 35mm slides taken from it. Only a few of the Art Deco details of the structure were saved when it was torn down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westsideartifacts_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westsideartifacts_lg-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westsideartifacts_lg-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westsideartifacts_lg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westsideartifacts_lg-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westsideartifacts_lg.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>West Side Highway remnants, 2009 &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I discovered a couple of discarded concrete pieces of the highway behind some fencing in lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside009a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside009a-700x553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside009a-700x553.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside009a-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside009a.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/westside009a-624x493.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>George Washington Bridge, 1985 &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>I remember doing this photograph as part of an assignment having to do with the George Washington Bridge. Not exactly a classic view of the bridge, but the image does give a sense of the beautifully wild, if forbidding, urban landscape of the time period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Side Highway at 59th Street, 1985 &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose Two new scanned images from around 1985 when I roamed up the west side of Manhattan. The West Side Highway was torn down after a collapse of one section of the elevated viaduct. I remember walking it during the late 70s. I have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}