Day 350 of 365

Tick-Tock Christmas

After closing down Foley's at 4 a.m., I was left with 90 minutes to kill before the first train back to Clifton. Last year, about eight of us went to breakfast at the Tick-Tock Diner on 8th Ave. and 34th St. This year, everyone shuffled home, weary, so I passed a pleasant hour alone in a booth with a book to read, a notebook to jot thoughts and a plate of mozzarella sticks and a Coke all to myself.

Three guys in a booth I faced chatted up the ladies in a booth next to them. The girls -- I deduced they were Duke students who will be studying in Spain next semester -- were cordial enough to the chatty frattys who kept pestering them with questions.

Day 348 of 365

A little color in a black-and-white night

No adjustments made; that's the way it looked atop a West Village apartment building.

Day 338 of 365

Maritime projection

A collection of gift ideas? The contents of a very large purse? Temporary advertising. Not holiday-related at all.

Day 323 of 365

Like the '80s

Forgot my camera as I rushed out of the house to catch the train into the city, so I had to come up with something using the camera on my phone. This resulting shot reminds me of old color photos of the seedier New York of the late 70s and 80s.

Day 322 of 365

Like Woody's shot

I wanted to get a shot of the Empire Diner on 10th Avenue and 22nd St. as it was in Woody Allen's intro in Manhattan (at the 30-second mark) before it changes hands.

Day 297 of 365

Rainy night, Ninth Avenue

Managed to get from my car to the office during a break from the downpour that had occurred -- and would come back.

Day 289 of 365

One Poochini, please

I love going to Shake Shack on cool days -- short line, but the burger's just as good. This guy knows what I'm talking about.

Day 270 of 365

Autumn's arrival

On my walk out of Chelsea Market in the early morning, I came across the new pumpkin display at the Manhattan Fruit Exchange -- a sure sign that autumn has come to the city.

Day 269 of 365

Lower west riverside

At the western end of 15th Street, where the road ends at the West Side Highway along the Hudson River.

Day 255 of 365

Signs above the street

I'd taken a shot of this colorful billboard a few weeks ago, from an angle further back on 30th St., only to have my camera and computer screw up the transfer. While not the same, this one worked out OK, too.

Day 166 of 365

Rainbow walkway

I've long wanted to capture on megapixels the rainbow-tinted walkway that stretches above 15th St., but I'm usually already in the car -- mine or the car service's -- heading from 9th Ave. to 10th to head home. But because I'd parked on 15th just across 10th, I had my chance early this morning.

Were I not so tired and eager to get home, maybe I could've gotten the tripod out of the trunk and set up a longer exposure or waited for a car passing to add some streaks of light, but this worked out fine for me.

Day 160 of 365

Tracks over 10th Ave.

[I still haven't caught up on blogging my daily photos since coming back from vacation, but they're all in the Flickr set. I'll catch up soon enough, but I just couldn't wait until I had to post this one.]

[The backlog is released and 18 days of photos have been posted, beginning with Day 142. Start there and head back here!]

Ever since I first read about the decommissioned railroad tracks built over 10th Avenue and the West Side, I've been intrigued. And once they announced that the old trestle would become the High Line Park, I've eagerly anticipated my first trip up there.

This one particular overpass has caught my eye since 2006, when I first started working in Chelsea Market. I'm standing on the east side of 10th Avenue, just north of the Market, looking west across the avenue to where the tracks used to duck into the building before emerging out the north side and continuing up to 34th St.

Many of the old entryways have been built over, like the one in this photo, so it's only bits and pieces of the rail line's past that remain. The rest is left to the imagination.

Day 126 of 365

Night light

I stopped, backtracked a few feet, and took a moment for this shot even though it was after 4 a.m. and all I wanted to do was get in my car and head home to bed.

Day 123 of 365

The Maritime

On Ninth Ave. in Chelsea.

Day 122 of 365

Closed

Closing time at Frank's.

Day 86 of 365

On Hudson St.

Soon the window boxes of Greenwich Village won't be so bare.

Day 59 of 365

Gansevoort growth

Lights shine from below on decorative plants outside the Gansevoort Hotel.

"The Corner Deli, Manhattan," October 2007

The Corner Deli, Manhattan

A slice of New York City life from just one of many Manhattan corners.

"NYC glow," November 2007

NYC glow

I didn't want just a street scene as my urban landscape. I considered something that's more of a landscape than urban, even if it's technically in the city. So then I settled on this shot, one of my personal favorites, in which, with just a little imagination, those aren't buildings bathed in the light of sunset but trees against a deep blue sky or leaves aflame in the colors of fall.

OK, or it's just sunset on Manhattan.

Day 25 of 365

Peering into the well

There are plenty of Chelsea Market photos I've taken in the three years I've worked in the building, but there will always be more. Tonight, as I headed to the Manhattan Fruit Exchange, I snapped a couple of shots, including this curious fellow at the well.