Manhattan After the Hurricane

Manhattan After the Hurricane

My office downtown is dark with no phone service or water, but I am thankful because my home is intact and we have electricity. Not so for many people whose lives have been upended by this historic, devastating storm. I took my camera out in the storm’s aftermath to...
Umbrella Symphony in Manhattan

Umbrella Symphony in Manhattan

Last week I was caught in a summer downpour in lower Manhattan after I left the office late in the afternoon. I was wet and uncomfortable, and fatigued after attending to patients for most of the day. Like other New Yorkers trying to get home, I was rushing to the...
Art and Transformation in the Flatiron Building

Art and Transformation in the Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building is one of my favorite structures reminiscent of Old New York City.  At the crossroads where Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street intersect, and across from Madison Square Park, I remember when this area was crawling with junkies and drug...
Manhattan Loses an Artistic Landmark

Manhattan Loses an Artistic Landmark

It was quirky, and not even that pretty, but I liked it and now its gone.  So many of Manhattan’s artistic landmarks have been obliterated in the past decade, knocked down or covered up by drab glass walled buildings, and this is one of them. I photogaphed it in 2008...
City Diary: What’s Going On Downtown?

City Diary: What’s Going On Downtown?

The Occupy Wall Street demonstration, that’s what. There’s been so much press about the goings on downtown that I went to see for myself and share some photos on my blog.  I took the subway to Wall Street, and once I got off the demonstrators were not hard to find. ...
A Glimpse of Manhattan After 9/11

A Glimpse of Manhattan After 9/11

As the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 rolls around, I searched my negatives for photos I took in the days after the disaster.  They were in storage and I scanned some of them for this post, which is dedicated to the memory of the people who died in the...