New York's winter wonderland
flowers and snow Originally uploaded by tanya r. Just uploaded a public photo from "tanya r" at Flickr using the tags "NYC" and "snow." This photo was posted on Saturday, January 22....
View ArticleHere comes Mr. Plow
Blizzard '05: Mr. Plow Originally uploaded by LarimdaME. The minitractors of Time Warner Center help the city dig out of the Blizzard of '05. (public photo from Flickr, tag = "NYC")....
View ArticlePhotoblog Quarlo releases new photos
Gothamist recommends checking out Todd Gross's photoblog Quarlo.com for a new batch of stunning New York City photographs. The site has been mentioned in Slate, the New York Times, Forbes and USA...
View ArticleMTA photo ban averted
The MTA failed to pass the much-debated subway photo ban. Gothamist points to an article in Newsday detailing the reasons why the MTA failed to get all its ducks in a row: "Officials said the hold-up...
View ArticleNYC photoblogging event
From NewYorkology: the NYC Photobloggers event at the Apple store in SoHo is Wednesday, March 23 at 6pm. Among the sponsors and participants: Gothamist, Flickr and Fotolog....
View ArticleTaxicab photoessay
Kottke points to Waiting for Fares, a photoessay from the New York Times that shows how NYC cab drivers "spend their time waiting for someone to drive somewhere." There are Russians playing soccer,...
View ArticleNew York City drops subway photo ban
The New York Daily News reports that the NYC subway photo ban has been dropped: "Click away without fear, shutterbugs - a controversial proposal to ban photography in the subways is dead. The Police...
View ArticleAnthropology 101 for the urban photoblogger
The New York Times has launched an interactive exhibit called "Tribes of New York." It's kinda what would happen if an anthropologist living in the big city also happened to be a photoblogger. In the...
View ArticleSnapshots from a Brooklyn to Manhattan subway commute
Park Slope-based photoblogger Travis Ruse has a great series of photos from the New York subway, including this snapshot of a guy holding an unmarked box wrapped in brown paper at Brooklyn's Jay...
View ArticleNYC Photobloggers and Smithson's Floating Island
Flickr has some great photos from Robert Smithson's Floating Island barge art exhibit, which set off a "frenzy of photoblogging not seen since The Gates back in February." The Floating Island is...
View ArticleMatisse to Picasso: Why are you still here?
Jason Kottke points to the work of Ji Lee, who is in the process of pasting 50,000 empty speech bubble stickers over advertisements, signs and movie posters on the streets of Manhattan. People then...
View ArticleThe Gowanus Canal: Brooklyn's heart of darkness
Idle Words has an extensive narrative (with photos) of what it's like to journey down the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. The canal, still an ecological nightmare, somehow has managed to find a special...
View ArticleNew York's encyclopedia of cultural detritus
The Bridge & Tunnel Club has created an A-Z "encyclopedia of cultural detritus": a cross between a photoblog and an encyclopedia for New Yorkers. For example, under "A" there are photos of Astoria...
View ArticleThe chair that thieves love to hate
Imagine this scenario: you're just settling down for a nice champagne (or mimosa) brunch at an outdoor cafe on the Upper West Side and you put your bag down - just for an instant - on the chair next...
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