After posting those views of the West Side Highway Mike sent me some various other views of NY City .
Commodore Vanderbilt …you have to zoom in on the old guy, below the clock
Pennsylvania Station from the Empire State Building 102nd floor
Penn Station
Fascinating watching the evolution of the area around Penn Station, isn’t it?
Thanks for the shots!
Yeah the station itself looks so new and shines, because it is new! Wouldn’t it be something to have a look around inside then.
Hard to believe it’s been down longer than it was ever up…
“Penn Station” by Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957)
P.R.R. Station in New York Has Fluorescent American Flag
A 60-ft. fluorescent American flag now adorns the area between the main waiting room and the train concourse of New York’s dimmed-out Pennsylvania station in New York. The flag
Wow! A sixty-foot fluorescent American flag! This is the first I’ve heard of it! Magnificent! I wonder whatever happened to it?
Do I detect the fine hand of Wanswheel here, sending his finds to us from wildest Farmingdale?
Dang, would have made a good quiz question!
Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me (Chris Cunningham Visual Remix)
Jeez Mr. Jones, that was kind of, uh, grim.
How about something more upbeat, like this?
Jones-- Have to agree with Wayne on that one. I mean, someone actually laid out time and money to produce that? … and then what?
Thanks, Wayne–I was, indeed, in the mood for that!
For Classic Mets Fans ( Mike is a YUGE Mets fan )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfz7gW2Wf3I
Yeah! As grim as the reality, as dark as the far side of the moon. We usually focus on the bright side of the Big Apple, but how about the dark side?
To show people the other views/sides of NY City? [;)]
Social Nondistancing
http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/headlight/images/headlight-0757.pdf#search="Ardsley"
“Protesting the gasolene dinky.” So that’s what those gas masks are all about!
I was thinking that instead of cutting the cards someone was cutting the cheese!
Love that Mets and Rheingold memorabilia Mike sent us from the wilds of Farmingdale. Man, does that bring it all back! Poor old Rheingold, as a New Jersey bar owner put it not too long ago, “Rheingold? No, they don’t make it anymore right now.” Too bad, it was good beer!
Greeley Square
A block from Penn Station
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jhoAAOSwYxBaTUWd/s-l1600.jpg
Kingsbridge Station
http://dcmny.org/islandora/object/photosnycbeyond%3A46899/datastream/OBJ/view
http://dcmny.org/islandora/object/photosnycbeyond%3A46900/datastream/OBJ/view
Interesting stuff!
Greeley Square looks a lot better now than it did “way back when.” At least ol’ Horace has some nice landscaping around him instead of just being plopped in the middle of the street.
That last photo with the head-on shot! Wow! That says it all, doesn’t it? The glory of steam personified!
Absolutely Flintlock/Wayne! That photo is exactly the way the CNR 6400’s barrelled thru the station in Burlington, Ontario when I was a kid. It was the most exciting thing I ever saw.