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 277 of 365

Big Bucks outside Starbucks

A lazy shot. I could've gotten closer, but I shot this from the driver's seat of my car after I parked on Ninth Ave. because I had a 13x9-inch dish of shortbread brownies to take into work.

Day 257 of 365

Flying high over Manhattan

Showed a friend from L.A. the High Line this afternoon before I went into work and as I looked up before heading down to street level, I noticed the sun shining on a plane high above and the sky reflected in the windows of the Caledonia condo building.

Day 221 of 365

NYC neighbors

Just looking up as I get out of the car.

Day 201 of 365

Left alone

Parked outside Chelsea Market at 4 a.m.

Day 193 of 365

NOT Buddakan!

I love "NOT" signs.

Day 179 of 365

Pipe from the High Line

A quick shot on the way into the office.

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 165 of 365

National Biscuit Company

Two hundred days to go!

I parked at the corner of 15th St. and 10th Ave. tonight, so I snapped a picture of the NBC above the door at 85 10th Ave. It's not, nor was it ever, part of the National Broadcasting Company. It was an addition to the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) at Chelsea Market.

Day 161 of 365

Che Market

Another quick snapshot as I walked the new High Line Park to work.

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 157 of 365

Uneeda Bakers

Chelsea Market in Manhattan is the former home to NABISCO, which baked Oreo cookies and Uneeda Biscuits in the complex. Most of the building has been made over for the retail space on the first floor and the offices above (with some historical displays on the first-floor corridor of shops and bakeries), but this is one of the few unique holdovers from its industrial past.

Day 137 of 365

Neighborhood watch

On 16th St., Chelsea.

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 115 of 365

Chelsea Market (.com)

Now that I approach the office from the south most days, I get to stare at this scaffolding disguised as a website ad as I wait to cross 15th St. I'm usually cutting it close as far as time goes, but I had a few minutes today and saw the two men walking toward the corner, so I was ready to get the shot I wanted. I think I like it even better with the people walking toward the silhouette than the image I had in my mind of someone walking in the same direction of it.

Day 71 of 365

The light in Chelsea

A beautiful early evening on 17th St.

Day 46 of 365

Pizza pizz

Just up Ninth Avenue from the office is Stella's Pizza, an excellent slice that I get for dinner with probably too much regularity. I'll reach a saturation point every now and then and will refrain, yet there's something about seeing its glowing neon sign from two blocks away -- or from right out front -- that makes me want it, even if I just had it two days ago.

I restrained myself, though.