#unpause
November 7th, 2018
Tag: walking in new york
Meanwhile back in New York…
Hustle and bustle as usual.
October 19th, 2018
Skyscraping
The City rose upwards to reach the last remaining square of open sky.
Midtown Manhattan
September 15th, 2018
City Views || Tudor City
Sitting on a cliff between 40th and 43rd Streets, overlooking First Avenue and the United Nations Headquarters, Tudor City is a red brick apartment complex with wonderful stonework, that took its name from its architectural style: Tudor Revival. A massive – yet far from oppressive – enclave, a heaven of tranquility amidst one of noisiest, busiest parts of the City.
Midtown Manhattan East
August 25th, 2018
Spring 2020 || New York City
Anyone for a walk in Central Park?
Switched to the present for a moment, because Central Park is breathtaking this Spring, as always. So is wearing a mask, but humans are the most adaptable species, we’ll get used to them too.
Central Park
April 19, 2020
Moon Over Manhattan
And a full Moonhenge it was, too. Like a Manhattanhenge, only a lot cooler.
Hudson River Greenway, Manhattan West
August 24th, 2018
The Bittersweet Past of Domino Park
The Dancing Cranes and Disappearing Act you saw yesterday and the day before, are some of the historic features that render a walk along the Domino Park all the more fun.
The 80-foot tall Gantry Cranes were used to unload bulk sugarcane from freight ships for storage at the Raw Sugar Warehouse, 21 columns of which stand in their original place along the Elevated Walkway (not pictured).
The bridge with the misters performing the Disappearing Act, stands in front of the Syrup Tanks, four of the fourteen large-scale tanks that were used to collect high volumes of liquid sweetener generated in sugar processing, dating back to the 1950s.
And the magnificent industrial brick giant you see below is none other than the Domino Sugar Refinery, closed in 2004 after 150 years production of the white sweet crystals we now love to hate. The entire building is undergoing renovation, with the facade being preserved in its entirety and the interior converted into ”creative office space”.
The Domino Park website shows many of the park’s features today next to black & white photos of their original use accompanied by historical notes, from where the following excerpt:
“Because of its ease of access by larger shipping vessels, Frederick C Havemeyer Jr. selected this area in 1856 to establish the F. C. Havemeyer & Company refinery, which would eventually become known as the Domino Sugar Refinery. At its peak in 1919, the Domino Sugar Refinery employed approximately 4,500 workers from a wide range of backgrounds and ethnicities.
Immigrants from Germany, Poland, Ireland and other European countries — and in its later years — Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and other people of Caribbean descent as well as African Americans all endured difficult working conditions at the Refinery in search of opportunity and prosperity. While the Refinery figured prominently in the explosive growth of Williamsburg’s industry and economy, it is the diversity of community surrounding this site that has become its lasting legacy.”
August 21st, 2018
The Disappearing Act
”Spanning a collection of historic timber piles, one look underneath the bridge reveals that most of Domino Park is actually situated over water, on a pier once supported by nearly 1,200 of these wood piles. A set of misters surrounding the bridge emit a gentle cloud of fog that envelop passersby in the shoreline’s wind patterns.” [@DominoPark]
PS: The fog is lit up at night.
August 21st, 2018
The Crane Dance
Domino Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
August 21st, 2018
A/D/O || ENVIRONS
A/D/O is a space set up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for the local creative community. It takes its name from the Amalgamated Drawing Office, a team led by Sir Alec Issigonis that built the very first MINI in 1959.
Spirit of the City was a modular system of revolving mirrored columns set on a grid configuration.
The installation ”explored the physical and emotional response that individuals experience when navigating urban environments” i.e. offered infinite instagrammable moments to a young hip crowd.
By United Visual Artists.
A/D/O and environs – a walk in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
August 21st, 2018
