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28 Thursday Jul 2011
Posted New York
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Posted New York
in02 Friday Oct 2009
Posted New York, Photography
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07 Tuesday Jul 2009
Posted Hobbies, New York, Photography
inIt’s curious I took pictures of so many places except New York City. Living here for the past three years and a half, I never really seriously photographed it. I just assumed I could do it anytime. And yet, I never did. Thus, the time has come. I love to just go out, explore the city and try my hand at photography. NY is so incredibly rich with picture opportunities, it’s unbelievable. There are 5 boroughs, each unique in its own way, there is a mixture of the old with the new, an impressive number of landmark statues/buildings, touristy spots, parks, 10.000 unique restaurants, billboards, a melting pot of people all around the world, and the list can go on and on, that you could literally spend an entire month doing this and not get bored. NY has it all; you name it, NY has it. Most important, there is no other skyline in the world just like this one.
I started my New York photography session and am taking it very seriously. Not only is it a hobby of mine, but I feel I have to pay a tribute to the city that has adopted me and matured me tremendously. Even though there was often a love-hate relationship, NYC is my city, will always be mine wherever I may go, and as a New Yorker, I have to show it to the world. It would be a terrible shame not to.
I plan to spend some of the next days working on this project, with brief breaks when uninspired. It is impossible to go everywhere and include everything, as I have seen these places so many times before, and the vastness of it all is overwhelming, but I will do my best at it. I will return with the finished product (no, I’m not making a calendar 🙂 ) when I have satisfied my interest and reached my limit. I plan to take a helicopter ride over NY, which I heard is pretty amazing. I cannot wait to immortalize those breath-taking views overlooking the city.
Visiting NY is really one of those must do things in your lifetime. You can NEVER run out of places to see or things to do in this incredibly cosmopolitan city.
Until then, enjoy the song and these captions, similar to what I will probably see from the helicopter. Ta ta!
25 Saturday Oct 2008
I came across this on Facebook, read it, and…as a New Yorker myself, thought most of them are absolutely true. It’s pretty hilarious. Those of you that are New Yorkers will laugh and those of you that are not New Yorkers will not understand all of them, and will think that New Yorkers are snobs, consider themselves superior and utterly and completely insane to live the way they do, and you may very well be right. Check it out J
1. You say the city and expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan.
2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can’t find Wisconsin on a map.
4. Hookers and the homeless are invisible.
5. The subway makes sense.
6. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
7. You’ve considered stabbing someone just for saying The Big Apple.
8. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
9. You call an 8′ x 10′ plot of patchy grass a yard.
10. You consider Westchester upstate.
11. You think Central Park is nature.
12. You see nothing odd about the speed of an auctioneer’s speaking.
13. You’re paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it’s a steal.
14. You’ve been to New Jersey twice and got hopelessly lost both times.
15. You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.
16. You haven’t seen more than twelve stars in the night sky since you went away to camp as a kid.
17. You go to dinner at 9 and head out to the clubs when most Americans are heading to bed.
18. Your closet is filled with black clothes.
19. You haven’t heard the sound of true absolute silence since the 80s, and when you did, it terrified you.
20. You pay $5 without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28 cents.
21. You take fashion seriously.
22. Being truly alone makes you nervous.
23. You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.
24. Going to Brooklyn is considered a road trip.
25. America west of the Hudson is still theoretical to you.
26. You’ve gotten jaywalking (crossing the street on a red light) down to an art form.
27. You take a taxi to get to your health club to exercise.
28. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
29. $50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
30. You have a minimum of five worst cab ride ever stories.
31. You don’t notice sirens anymore.
32. You live in a building with a larger population than most American towns.
33. Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite bartender is Irish, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watchseller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsstand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.
34. You’re suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
35. You secretly envy cabbies for their driving skills.
36. You think $7.00 to cross a bridge is a fair price.
37. Your door has more than three locks.
38. Your favorite movie has DeNiro in it.
39. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
40. You run when you see a flashing Do Not Walk sign at the intersection.
41. You’re 35 years old and don’t have a driver’s license.
42. You ride in a subway car with no air conditioning just because there are seats available.
43. You’re willing to take in strange people as roommates simply to help pay the rent.
44. There is no North and South…
45. It’s uptown or downtown.
46. When you’re away from home, you miss real pizza and real bagels.
47. You know the differences between all the different Ray’s Pizzas.
48. You’re not in the least bit interested in going to Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
49. Your internal clock is permanently set to know when Alternate Side of the Street parking regulations are in effect.
50. You know what a bodega is.
51. You know how to fold the New York Times in half, vertically, so that you can read it on the subway or bus without knocking off other passenger’s hats.
52. Someone bumps into you, and you check for your wallet…..
53. You cringe at hearing people pronounce Houston St. like the city in Texas
54. Film crews on your block annoy you, not excite you.
55.  People from other states can’t tell a polar bear from a peanut, but they know you’re from NY the second you open your mouth.
56. When you are able to make a right turn at a red light, you think it’s the best thing ever.
57. Rather than waiting safely on the sidewalk to cross the street, you wait inches away from speeding traffic waiting to cut through it.
58. Your local news is national news.
59. You walk a mile in 13 minutes and think that everything should be open 24/7.
60. You know who Dr. Z is…
61. You think you know better than everyone else in the world…when in reality…well…you do.
62. Yellow light means speed up.
63. Red light means speed up because you know have that 1 second pause until the other light turns green.
64. Communicating with people on the road only takes one finger.
65. You order your dinner and have it delivered from the place across the street.
66. You cross the street on a green light, and if you get hit by a car you blame the driver for not watching where they’re going.
67. You can tell a gunshot from a firecracker and not get scared, but when you go to the burbs you get scared of hearing a cricket.
68. You know the lights above the skyscrapers are the closest thing we have to stars.