Random Photos

It has been a while since I've posted any. Here are some (fairly to very) recent ones, including a series from Governors Island, which I visited yesterday.

Our increasingly luxury tower-
filled, hypergentrifying
downtown Jersey City skyline

A longtime business in downtown JC,
being forced out, now features
a retail space sign in its window

Strange juxtapositions: a rainy sunny day
in Jersey City

Late summer catness (cuteness)

At the Jersey City Pride
Festival 

Newark Avenue, the main Pride
thoroughfare this year 

People having lunch on the Upper East Side, Manhattan

High end tchotckes Expensive art
at an Upper East Side gallery

My ever-rising office bookstacks 

A badger, in South Kearney (NJ) 

On the Governor's Island ferry 

Leaving the South Ferry docks 

The Staten Island ferry, with Jersey City in the
background and Manhattan at right

Governors Island 

Disembarking 

One of the historic buildings on what
once was a strategic military base

One of the organizations based on Governors Island

One of the Nolan Park houses,
with a fascinating sculpture out front 

Another one of the organizations based on GI 

An outdoor exercise class in Nolan Park

One of the Nolan Park paths

DJs about to set up for an afternoon set 

Relaxing in the extreme heat 

Pershing Hall (I think), Governors Island 

Some sort of shooting event
(a reenactment?)

Looking toward Brooklyn

Pulling away as another ferry arrives

Brooklyn, from the ferry

Courtland Street, with the Calatrava PATH
hub looming like a giant rib at left

Santiago Calatrava's PATH station, with
One World Trade Center at rear

Inside the futurist PATH station--
with the Oculus visible at top--
now fully occupied and bustling 

One of the second floor commercial
arcades, World Trade Center

The stairs to the Oculus and main floor 

A couple photographing each other, World Trade Center

A restaurant demolition in Newark