The photo shows the Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The archival photograph is dated 1952. The factory closed in 2004. Its iconic brick refinery building was preserved, and a modern glass office building was inserted inside the historic shell. Next to it, the spectacular Domino Park was created along the waterfront. Founded by the…
It turns out that the famous image of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt blowing up was filmed in Midtown Manhattan, specifically on the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and East 52nd Street, in front of 590 Lexington Avenue. On the night of September 15, 1954, the crew of The Seven Year Itch was filming there….
If you thought this was an early work by artist Jaume Plensa (I wrote about him recently), this photograph is actually much older. The photo is titled “Unpacking the Statue of Liberty in New York, 1885.” The Statue of Liberty was shipped from France to the United States in pieces. It arrived packed in approximately…
This photo shows the right hand of the Statue of Liberty, standing in Madison Square Park, approximately at the current intersection of Broadway and West 26th Street. Bartholdi created the Statue of Liberty in France piece by piece. To convince Americans that the gigantic monument would actually be built and to attract donations, he began…
In New York City, there’s a very fun tradition of leaving messages in your windows for those who live or work in the buildings across from you. If your buildings are located opposite each other, a whole invisible bridge of sympathy is created, across which all sorts of messages can travel. For example, my photographs…
View of Central Park from the RCA Building Observation Deck, 1964, the former name of the first version of the modern Top of the Rock observation deck. Interestingly, the name “Top of the Rock” is relatively new, having only appeared in the fall of 2005, when the deck was reopened as a separate tourist attraction…
Long Island now and 13 years ago, and it’s the fastest growing borough in New York City today. 📍 Long Island City, New York
It’s impossible not to guess the city… This photo was taken on July 9, 1988,incidentally, not from New York, but from the neighboring state of New Jersey. Photo by Jeffrey Johnson
One of my favorite photo series. It captures the space shuttle Enterprise flying directly over Manhattan, mounted on a Boeing 747, which was used to transport it to JFK Airport so it could become part of the permanent exhibition at the Intrepid Museum on the New York waterfront. You can spot the museum at around…
