A view of downtown from Liberty State Park, June 2005.


From Weehawken, NJ, January 2007.


From the Brooklyn Bridge, March 2012.


From the air.


From the Liberty Island ferry. The statue goes here because it shares New York County with Manhattan.


The last photo looks down from the top of the pedestal.


Federal Hall down by Wall Street, and just south of it in the last photo, the center of the action, the New York Stock Exchange.


The semi-famous Charging Bull of Wall Street is outside the former Cunard Building.


Trinity Church, same area.


One thing about walking in Manhattan is that you can find thousands of buildings interesting in detail even if they look plain at first sight. That's the case with the former J&R building on Park Row (once their headquarters for an entire block, then reduced to just a building or two, then gone completely). I was going for the red building behind it but ended up with a number of closeups of both.


Walking from the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan, you will see the 1914 Manhattan Municipal Building and 1936 (Thurgood Marshall) U.S. Courthouse on your right. The Municipal Building is 580 feet tall, a monster when it was built and still one of the largest non-Kremlin government buildings around. The Courthouse was designed by famous architect Cass Gilbert.


And on your left is the most normal building ever designed by Frank Gehry, known as Beekman Tower or 8 Spruce St. It includes an elementary/middle school with 4th-floor playground, just adding to its attractiveness (relative to other Gehry designs, at least). The iconic Woolworth Building lurks behind it.


The Delancey club is at the base of the westbound Williamsburg Bridge.


Along the south side of 14th Street west of Avenue C in Alphabet City.


The old New York County National Bank is in the foreground and a former rival bank is behind it. When I was there, they were clearly repurposed.


More views of the NY County bank, on the southwest corner of 14th Street and 8th Avenue.


More views of the rival bank.


Other buildings within a block or two of the old banks.

Near Washington Square.

8th Avenue at Greenwich Avenue.


Looking north from Greenwich Village toward Midtown along the Bowery, which becomes the very short 4th Avenue (which then becomes Park Avenue).


Looking east into East Village along 4th Street.


Looking north on 2nd Avenue in the same area, with the Collegiate Reformed Church north of 6th Street.


The Garvin Machine Company was on Spring Street just west of Varick Avenue.


A rare appearance by a Citroën 2CV (affectionately known as the Deux Chevaux, or Two Horsepower). This one's a 2CV Special, so maybe it has an extra horse or two.


Remains of when Manhattan had a substantial number of houses, back when property values were low and population was still filtering in. Not much space between them though. 9th Avenue, Chelsea.

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