I returned to Madison Square Park after finding it so photogenic with my recent squirrel encounter. This time I turned my camera to the Flatiron building, constructed at the turn of the century. Its triangular shape tapers to an astonishingly narrow 6 feet, and this combined with its height and […]

As I was leaving Grand Central, I felt a single drop of rain. Wondering if I imagined it, I looked up and saw thousands of tiny drops suspended in the night air far above me. They were easily visible because of the almost overpowering light. The Chrysler building provided the […]

Although this pedicab driver is taking a break from pedaling, he seems to be quite busy. A master of multitasking, he is listening to music, smoking a cigarette, and checking his phone- maybe his Instagram- as cars, cabs and buses whiz by in the background. Pedicabs became part of New […]

Faberge is synonymous with the amazingly intricate Easter eggs created for the czar and his family from the late 1800s until 1917, when the Revolution ended that relationship. But the craftsmanship is equally impressive with the amazing flowers currently on a rotating display at the Met. Though less famous than […]

It is said that gray squirrels once could travel the entire east coast without touching the ground, moving from the top of one tree to the next. There are records in the 19th century, including by Audubon, of enormous squirrel movements. In 1842 a scurry of squirrels (the technical term […]

Grand Central is enormous with 48 acres, 44 platforms, and more than 100 tracks, the most of any railroad station in the world. Its architectural elegance and shopping options attract over 21 million visitors every year, one of the top ten global tourist attractions. This is in addition to the […]

Landing at Newark airport, approaching from the south, I flew right over the southern part of Staten Island. This is both the southernmost point of New York City and New York State. Bounded in the foreground and background by New Jersey, the southern part of the island is bordered by […]

I spent my early summers in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, where I fell in love with nature. I climbed all the 46 high peaks there in my childhood and teens, enjoying the vast forests where I could camp alone and not see anyone for days. With over […]

I have several of these shrubs in my yard in assorted colors, so I think of them as Rose of Ruth, though actually they aren’t a rose at all but a kind of mallow. There are a profusion of flowers over the summer, often blooming through heat that wilts lesser […]