New York City Street Scenes (115 images)

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New York City is rich in potential when it comes to photographing the urban landscape. The images in this gallery mostly comprise what I come across on the streets as I wander with my camera. It shows my propensity toward graphic and abstract imagery. I also love the play of light and shadows in Manhattan. The sun will refract off of glass and steel skyscrapers, creating multiple directions of light. Or shafts of light will appear between two buildings, highlighting and shading the...
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  • Looking up at Steam coming from a pipe near the twin towers of the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle in Manhattan

  • Steam rising from a vent where construction is being done on Eight Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on a winter day

  • Smoke is rising from the cart of a street vendor selling Chinese food in Flushing, Queens in New York City.

  • A pedestrian with an umbrella walks out of a big cloud of steam coming up from a street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in Manhattan.


  • The pattern of a corrugated wall seems to be mimicked in a warped way by the cloud that is passing in the sky above it. The top of a tree separates the wall from the clouds.

  • The long shafts of light are being created from the early morning sun through a curtain of water shot out of a large lawn sprinkler in Central Park, New York City.

  • The Skyline of buildings along Central Park South is seen through the bare trees of Central Park. Snow covers the ground.

  • Ice covers the bare limbs of a tree at 57th Street and 10th Avenue. The sign of a nearby Cafe is underneath the tree. Blue netting covers the scaffolding of an abandoned building in the background.

  • Early morning shadows cast on the pavement of a road in Central Park. Shadows are of me holding the camera and of a bicyclist just outside the frame.

  • The shadow of a bike locked to a pipe is being cast on a sidewalk from the early morning sun near Lincoln Center in Manhattan, New York City.

  • Looking down on street signs, two pylons, and shadows on the pavement of a road in Central Park.

  • The shadow of a tree is being cast on the large pavement stones of a sidewalk on 57th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.

  • A cart and large bags filled with cans waiting to be recycled are on the red brick sidewalk on Central Park West in Manhattan, New York City

  • Early morning sunlight and shadows on the pavement of a street corner in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. Scaffolding and a plywood wall are in the background.

  • A pedestrian walks along Central Park South. Long shadows are cast in the early morning winter light.

  • A man wearing sandals is seen from the knees down standing on big white letters on the street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

  • A manhole cover is surrounded by spray painted symbols and letters on an Upper East Side street in Manhattan.

  • The legs of a worker outside the Petrossian Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan appear at the top of the frame as a red water hose snakes down and accross the pavement.

  • A water hose with a nozzle rests on the wet sidewalk of a storefront restaurant in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

  • A man emerging from the green door of a white brick wall on 58th Street. He is standing on the wet pavement holding the nozzle of a hose spraying water.

  • The view is cut in half by a pole, giving the impression of two seperate scenes. A pedicab is in the foreground in the right side of the frame and a row of buildings in the left side.

  • A complicated composition of reflections, the interior of a corner restaurant, and the traffic on 57th Street seen through the windows on two sides of the restaurant.

  • Reflections of the surrounding neighborhood and a woman walking by can be seen in the large storefront window of a cafe that has been closed and abandoned.

  • The exterior of a wall at the Time Warner Center is reflected in a window. Commuters coming up on the escalator at the Columbus Circle Subway are seen through the reflections in the window.

  • Shafts of light and shadows are being cast on the brushed metal walls and marble floors of the entrance to the Columbus Circle 59th Street subway station at Time Warner Center.

  • Nearby buildings around Columbus Circle are reflected in a window of the Museum of Arts and Design. The MAD logo is also shown on the window.

  • Ice covers the glass front of a magazine display rack at a street kiosk in Manhattan.

  • Mortars and pestles and old bottles are being displayed in a pharmacy display window on 10th Avenue in Manhattan, New York City

  • Reflections off the glass of a bus stop, a pedestrian walking by, and a fashion advertisement form an odd juxtaposition.

  • The large biceps of a man is seen in a poster on the white and color tile wall of a New York City subway platform.

  • Partial face from an advertising poster with graffiti at a bus stop. Partial reflection of me in the glass of the bus stop.

  • People milling about on the street are reflected in a storefront window as the large face of a model looks out from the store's display. Located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City

  • Two images side by side with a black border. Two shots of the same pair of sunglasses. The shot on the right is of the side of the sunglasses with the logo. The shot on the left is of the front right lens of the sunglasses. Reflecting in the lens is the camera and the eye behind the lens.

  • Sunglasses rest on red velveteen fabric from a street vendor in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

  • A street vendor has scattered silver bracelets with the peace sign on pink velveteen fabric.

  • The bed of an old van is littered with old and rusted pipe and tubing to be recycled

  • The large hand from the marquee of Madame Tussauds is seen from the rooftop of a building on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City.


  • A wooden statuette of the Madonna and Child stands among dead leaves in an abandoned lot in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

  • A black and white photograph of Aristede Maillol's "The River" in the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

  • Light coming from the small window at the back of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the very early dawn of a winter morning.

  • Shadows of me and the the columns from the entrance to the Heckscher Playground in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.

  • My shadow is being cast on the floor as I photograph the inside of an abandoned storefront interior. Shadows and strong shafts of light.

  • Shadow of a man in silhouette as he is smoking a cigarette. Strong horizontal and vertical composition of sunlight and shadows. Shot through a plate glass window into an empty storefront.

  • Benches, shadows, leaves, and a fence create a graphic composition along a concrete path in Central Park, New York City.

  • Shadows of a park bench on the pavement being cast from the early morning sun in Central Park, New York City.

  • My shadow cast on stairs leading down to the subway station bisected by the stair rail.

  • The shadow of an outdoor pay phone is cast against an exterior wall. The wall is covered in the same black and white poster repeated over and over again to create a pattern on the wall. an exterior wall.

  • A shaft of light illuminating the sidewalk and front gate of an old building with graffiti in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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