New York's midtown skyline as seen from the Brooklyn Bridge. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
My photo of an arch of the Brooklyn Bridge that I converted to sepia tone.
I recently walked along 57th Street and shot photos and videos of the mostly pencil-thin skyscrapers that have risen there and on neighboring blocks over the past decade.These residential buildings are collectively called Billionaires Row, the modern equivalent of the turn-of-the-century Millionaires Row of mansions built along 5th Avenue on the upper east side of Central Park.Among the buildings showcased are the three tallest residential buildings in the world: Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet; 111 West 57th Street at 1,438 feet; and 432 Park Avenue at 1,397 feet. Another skyscraper shown here, One57, at 1,005 feet, is thirty-first on the list.To provide some perspective, I’ve also included an image of these buildings dominating the Central Park South skyline that I snapped from the park, along with one of yours truly standing on a rocky outcrop with the skyscrapers as a backdrop, taken by a fellow but unknown parkgoer.(Photo/Words: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Lady Liberty in Pink
The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Park
The ancient Greek mythological figure Atlas (by Lee Lawrie) at Rockefeller Center faces St. Patrick’s Cathedral from across Fifth Avenue.(Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Metropolitan Museum
Gramercy Park and Chrysler Building.
30 Rock
A view of the Lower Manhattan skyline as seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park and across from pilings in the East River. (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Relaxing with an e-book at Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Lower Manhattan skyline as backdrop. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Mid-Town Manhattan
Columbus Circle SkySkyscrapers at Time Warner Center and Columbus CirclePhoto Joseph Kellard_.jpg
Manhattan Bridge & Washington StreetBrooklyn’s Washington Street — Where a cobblestone road aligns perfectly with a Manhattan Bridge tower in the background
Lady Liberty
One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Photo © 2018 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
Metropolitan Opera House
Get caught in the web of steel cables on the Brooklyn Bridge.(Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Benches on the Brooklyn Height Promenade directed at the Lower Manhattan skyline. (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
The nuts and bolts of the Brooklyn Bridge, as seen from the Brooklyn side of the span. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
One World Trade Center-Hudson River Greenway
Gantry State Park New York’s midtown skyline as seen through a gantry at Gantry State Park in Long Island, Queens. Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
The Woolthworth Building and 8 Spruce Street — a view from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
Statue of Liberty and sailboat in New York Harbor.
Photo © 2018 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge as seen from the Manhattan side of the span.(Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Photo © 2018 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
People walk along the High Line in the Chelsea and Meatpacking District in Manhattan. Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
Photo © 2018 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
The Eldorado and Central Park reservoir.(hoto © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
The Queeensboro Bridge crosses the East River and connects the boroughs of Queens and Manhattan in New York City. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
432 Park Avenue (center) and the Citigroup Center (left) in midtown Manhattan. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Empire State Building & Manhattan Bridge
Tulips along 42nd Street in Manhattan look up at the Bank of America Tower and Grace Building. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
A bee buzzes around flowers at Gantry State Park in Long Island City, with the Empire State Building and the rest of the midtown skyline as backdrop. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Trump Tower on 5th Ave in Manhattan
The east tower of the Brooklyn Bridge. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Lower Manhattan caught in the Brooklyn Bridge’s web of steel cables. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Spring blooms outside a coffee shop in Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
The night lights of the Lower Manhattan skyline on the East River. (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Castle William, Governors Island
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One World Trade Center & 90 West Street
Fiery Skyline
Photo © 2018 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
Chrysler Building
The cobblestone-paved Plymouth Street in the shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Chrysler Building
Chrysler Building Spire
Mott Bedell House, Brooklyn Heights
Colorful Empire
(Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)The Empire State Building looking east from W. 34th Street and before the New Yorker Hotel, whose neon sign blares in the foreground. The iconic skyscraper was first bathed in colorful lights of red, white and blue on the bicentennial of the United States in July 1976. Since 2012, a computerized LED tower lighting system that can cast millions of color variations has illuminated the 102-story skyscraper. The building was the tallest in the world until the World Trade Center opened in Lower Manhattan in 1972. Visit the ESB website at: http://www.esbnyc.com/
Manhattan Bridge
Empire State Building Orange
New York's midtown skyline, including the Empire State Building and American Copper Building, as seen from Gantry State Park in Long Island City, Queens.
Empire State Building Rainbow
Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower
The E. V. Haughwout Building in Soho, Manhattan.
Lexington Avenue
The Brooklyn Bridge and One Old Fulton Street, a brick building in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn. The brick structure was built in 1835. (Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
Photo © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
The Black Lodge at 20 Prince Street in Soho Manhattan
The Carlyle Hotel
The Vessel
The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal during the two-week-long exhibition “Dear New York.” Brandon Stanton, creator of Humans of New York, which features the stories of everyday New Yorkers accompanied by their portraits, also created the installation. It includes 50-foot digital projections of these photos on the marble walls of the famed transportation hub. The exhibit coincides with the publication of Stanton’s book “Dear New York,” which he describes as a “love letter” to New York. The exhibition closed on October 16.
I have lived in New York almost my entire life, been all over Manhattan snapping photographs for many years now, yet I still find hidden gems. Last year, I discovered Greenacre Park, which has been tucked away on a side street in Manhattan for more than 50 years.If you walk or drive along East 51st Street between 2nd and 3rd avenues, you can easily miss this 6,360-square-foot urban oasis featuring a dramatic 25-foot waterfall that helps drown out the city’s noisy bustle.The private Greenacre Park was gifted to New York City in 1971 by philanthropist Abby Rockefeller Mauzé and designed by landscape architect Hideo Sasaki. A sign there reads, Greenacre Park is dedicated to Laurance Rockefeller and Allston Boyer “in appreciation of their encouragement and help in its planning and construction.”In addition to the waterfall cascading over sculpted granite blocks, the park also features honey locust trees that form a protective canopy, a trellis with radiant heat lamps for year-round comfort, and portable chairs and tables throughout the intimate terraces.The park welcomes an estimated 200,000 yearly visitors. Greenacre Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. @greenacreparkny