Author Archives: deborahshapiro
New York Botanical Garden
A visit to the New York Botanical Garden turned out to be different from the routine with the installation of four monumental sculptures by Philip Haas called The Four Seasons. The artist reimagined the series of Renaissance portraits by Giuseppe … Continue reading
Gus the Polar Bear
Rest in peace, old guy.
Times Square
Saturday in Times Square, post Bloomberg.
Union Square Greenmarket
The Greenmarkets are as close as most New Yorkers get to the source of their fruits and vegetables. Who knew that garlic has two-foot stalks, that tomatoes could be so beautiful, or that onion roots look like sea anemones?
A Unique Street Photographer
It’s a Speed Graphic made in the 1940’s, the kind tabloid photographers like Weegee used. Street photographer Louis Mendes fitted a Polaroid back to it, which he uses to make his specialty double exposures. Flashbulbs in 2013? No problem. He … Continue reading
The Next Big Thing
Spotted outside of Google headquarters in Chelsea. The nerds get them before you do.
Mulberry Street, July 27, 2013
A man brandishing an iPad and giving a tour of Little Italy outside La Grotta Azzurra Restaurant, corner of Broome and Mulberry. A gaggle of tourists, some dangling expensive Canons or Nikons. I think he was explaining which mafioso got … Continue reading
The Giglio Feast in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
This is the 126th annual procession of the Giglio (Lily) at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Giglio is a 60-foot, 4 ton steel tower which is carried through the streets on … Continue reading
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