Rockefeller Center

Christmas tree with green hat. Happy Holidays and New Year and all that!

Fifth Avenue and 59th Street

Mid-afternoon, Fifth Avenue, Christmastime.

34th Street and Broadway

This strip of green looked like something vintage and intriguing (I thought it might be related to the 1920s subway cars), but it turned out to be something newfangled and whimsical. It’s an “urban musical instrument,” called “Reach,” from Christopher Janney. Wave your hands in front of the small holes (the structure is pretty long) and different sounds come out of the speakers, creating music while you wait for the train.

17th Street and Fifth Avenue

Festive dress in search of a party (perhaps). Maybe just hanging out.

Spring Street and Greene Street

A glimpse of Soho from Vosges Haut Chocolate. (I crave their candy cane chocolate bar at this time of year—and Bapchi’s caramel toffee exotic bar all year round.)

Reade Street and West Broadway

Ha! Humor from a street sign. (Trying to compete with the haiku traffic warnings?)

Church Street and Park Place

Portrait of the Woolworth Building, in gray and white, with umbrella. (Perhaps this is what the top looks like.)

23rd Street and Sixth Avenue

Christmas spirit at the food cart. (For a bit more bling, see this list of lights.)

North 11th Street and Wythe Avenue (Brooklyn)

Local color (near the Brooklyn Brewery) that is not featured in a new book, New York in Color, previewable here, designed to capture some of this city’s “ever-changing visual collage best seen in color.”

Broadway and 116th Street

Eerie, icicle-like trees, but the comfort of streetlamps, on the Columbia campus.

Church Street and Murray Street

Subway station contemplation: How close to the yellow today?

Brooklyn Bridge Park

“and suddenly you're in a different place 

where everything seems to happen in waves”
            —Elizabeth Bishop, “Letter to N.Y.”

Murray Street and West Broadway

The first Christmas tree of the season spotted from my apartment window. (The big tree got lit up last night, too. Watch it here.)