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New York City Neighborhood Photography

by Mark Giarrusso

Queensboro Bridge

I love the variety of neighborhoods in New York City. Walk a few blocks and you can go from Little Italy to Chinatown. From Koreatown to the Garment District. In the upcoming weeks I will be spotlighting in photographs the mosaic of communities that make up New York. They will not be advertisements or real estate agent walking tours. Rather they will be what the communities look like from the street level. As if you took a stroll and simply looked around. The point is to draw the flavor out from what that neighborhood has to offer from the average point of view in every day life.
The first in this series is Sutton Place. A very small neighborhood on the east side of Manhattan. Sutton Place and Sutton Place South run from 53rd Street to 59th Street. It’s as far east as you can go on the island of Manhattan at that point. The numerous cul de sac parks offer sweeping views of the East River and Roosevelt Island, as well as the Queensboro Bridge.
Sutton Place is considered one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in all of New York City. The wealth is evident from the attentive doormen of the high rise apartments and the clothes of the women walking around on a sunny day.
It is a beautiful yet exclusive part of the city that certainly adds to the character of all New York.

Queensboro Bridge
Queensboro Bridge, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Doorman
Doorman Hails a Cab, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Flock of Pigeons
Flock of Pigeons Takes Flight, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Facade of Building
Facade of Apartment Building, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Facade of Building
Facade of Apartment Building, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
13 S Sutton Place
13 S Sutton Place, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Blue Door
Blue Door Behind Gate, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Sutton Place
Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
3 Sutton Place South
3 Sutton Place South, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Roosevelt Island Tram
Roosevelt Island Tram, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Archway Detail
Archway Detail, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
54th Street
54th Street, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
45 Sutton Place South
45 Sutton Place South, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso
Sutton Place Park
Sutton Place Park, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Globe Sculpture
Globe Sculpture, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
55th Street
55th Street, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Reading the Funnies
Reading the Funnies, Sutton Place, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013

Filed Under: ARTS, BREAKING NEWS, NEW YORK Tagged With: Architecture, Birds, BlackandWhitePhotography, Bridge, Buildings, Candid, city, Cityscapes, colorphotography, East River, Metro, monochromephotography, NewYork, NewYorkCity, NY, NYC, Parks, People, Pigeons, Queensboro Bridge, River, Street Photography, Sutton Place, Urban, UrbanPhotography

New York City Street Photography- New York at Night

by Mark Giarrusso

Art Deco in the Fog

As the sun goes down over New York you can feel a change coming over the city. It’s not that the city awakens because as we all know, it never truly sleeps. It’s more like a mood change. If you put a soundtrack to it, it wouldn’t be a full symphony orchestra or an operatic aria. It would a lone whining saxophone filling the gray night air (think an abstraction from The Love Supreme); much different than the frantic piano piece of the hectic work day. (think Flight of the Bumble Bee) It’s the sound of the endless possibility of victory, defeat, or both. When the night falls over New York City anything can happen and usually does.

Art Deco in the Fog
Chrysler Building, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Atlas Statue with Cabs
Atlas Statue with Cabs, Rockefeller Center, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
30 Rockefeller Center Through Tree Lights
30 Rockefeller Center Through Tree Lights, Rockefeller Center, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Midtown in Fog
Midtown in Fog, Midtown, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Rockefeller Center
Side Detail of 30 Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller Center, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso
Up Angle in Detail
Building and Sculpture Detail in NYC, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso
Steam in NYC
Steam Stack in NYC, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
NYC Street Lights
Street Lights in NYC, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: ARTS, BREAKING NEWS, NEW YORK Tagged With: 5th Ave, BlackandWhitePhotography, Chrysler Building, CityPhotography, Fog, Metro, NewYork, NewYorkCity, NewYorkCityPhotography, NYC, Photography, Rockefeller Center, StreetPhotography, Urban, UrbanPhotography

New York City Street Photography- The Human Drama

by Mark Giarrusso

Fire On 5th.

William Shakespeare once wrote, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances…” If the world is truly a stage then the people of New York City are at the very center of it. The human story that unfolds here daily is so rife with drama that it fairly swallows you up as soon as you leave your front door to wade into it. As shown here, just by going a few blocks in any direction you can encounter: creativity, romance, sadness, ingenuity, desperation, heroism, despair, and solemn determination. Each New Yorker contributing an equal amount to City’s story. Walt Whitman summed it up best by saying, “The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.”

Jazz Man On 5th.
Street Musician, 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Endless Love
Couple Crosses 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
An Uncomfortable Sleep
Man Sleeps On Bench, 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Construction On 55th St.
Construction On 55th St., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Playing For Coins
Man Plays Flute, 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Fire On 5th.
FDNY Respond To A Fire, 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
The Invisible Man
Man Sleeps On Box, 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
A Walk Into The Night
Man Walks On A Rainy Night, 6th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013

Filed Under: ARTS, BREAKING NEWS, SCIENCE, U.S. Tagged With: 5th Ave, 6th Ave, BlackandWhitePhotography, Candids, CityPhotography, FDNY, fire and rescue, fire men, fire truck, Metro, NewYork, NewYorkCity, NewYorkCityPhotography, NYC, People, Photography, street musicians, StreetPhotography, Urban, UrbanPhotography

New York City Photography- The Subway

by Mark Giarrusso

Grand Central Station

The Subway. It’s not the Underground. It’s not the Metro. And it’s not just any ordinary train ride in New York City. It can be stinky, crowded, noisy, sweltering hot or all of the above at any one time.  Ask any New Yorker and you will probably get just as many that hate it, as love it.  Since its inception in 1869, its hundreds of miles of tracks have stretched under the city like a web of veins carrying the people, who are the life blood of New York.

Waiting for the M.
Waiting For The M Train, Subway, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
The F Train
The F Train, Subway, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Subway Car Noir
Subway Car Noir, Subway, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
42nd Street-Bryant Park
42nd Street-Bryant Park Subway Station, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Grand Central Station
Grand Central Station, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
57th Street Station
57th Street Subway Station, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
The D Train
D Train, Subway, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
The N Train
N Train, Subway, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013

Filed Under: ARTS, BREAKING NEWS Tagged With: BlackandWhitePhotography, Candids, CityPhotography, GrandCentralStation, Metro, NewYork, NewYorkCity, NewYorkCityPhotography, NYC, People, Photography, StreetPhotography, Subway, Trains, Urban, UrbanPhotography

New York City Street Photography- The Beauty of Emptiness

by Mark Giarrusso

Empty 42nd Street

New York City is like a gorgeous woman. She flashes her incredible figure that anyone can see from miles away. The spires and towers gleaming skywards are unmatched in their beauty. People come from the world over to gaze upon them and they never leave unimpressed.
However, it’s the intimate late night conversations with her that truly reveal her soul. In order to get as close as you can to her beating heart, you don’t climb to the top of the tallest building; you get as close to ground as you possibly can. You address her in the stillness of the night and listen to the sound of 8 million souls breathing. It’s in the rare moments of solitude that you find out who and what she is.

Empty 5th Ave.
5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Fire Lane/ Bus Only
5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Empty Lexington Ave.
Lexington Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Empty Diamond District
Diamond District, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Empty 42nd Street
42nd St., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Smoke on Madison
Madison Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Intersection of Lex and Nowhere
Lexington Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013

Filed Under: ARTS Tagged With: 42nd St, 5th Ave, BlackandWhitePhotography, Cityscapes, Lexington Ave, Madison Ave, NewYorkCity, Night, Photography, StreetPhotography, UrbanPhotography

A Walk Down 5th

by Mark Giarrusso

Black and White 5th Avenue

I always keep my compact camera in my pocket every where I go. It’s so convenient to take out and snap pictures when the moment is right. It’s quicker to point and shoot and less clumsy on a crowded sidewalk than my iPhone or Nikon D90.
Recently, I took a walk down 5th. The setting sun was dead in my eyes as I walked down town from my apartment on 55th to the Library. I had my compact and was snapping as much as I could on the way.

White 5th Avenue Pedestrians
Black and White Pedestrians on 5th Avenue, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Black and White 5th Avenue
Pedestrians on 5th Avenue, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Sunset on 5th Avenue
Sunset on 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Vintage 5th Ave.
A Vintage New York City Scene on 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Black and White Pedestrians
Black and White Pedestrians on 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso 2013
The Sun Setting on 5th.
Sun Set on 5th Ave., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, 2013
Vintage 42nd Street
Vintage Style 42nd St., NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso
Vintage Chrysler Bldg.
Vintage Style Chrysler Building, NYC, Photo by Mark Giarrusso 2013

Filed Under: ARTS Tagged With: 5th Avenue, Chrysler Building, New York City, NYC, People, StreetPhotography, UrbanPhotography, Vintage Style

The NY Experience- A New York City Street Photography Journal

by Mark Giarrusso

Late Night Midtown Walk

To capture the people of New York City in photos is to indeed document the very soul of the most complex yet beautiful places in the world. The 2011 Census estimates there are 8,244,910 people and 800 languages spoken in New York City.  Ask each individual what New York City means to them and you will probably receive 8,244,910 different answers in whatever of the 800 languages they are speaking. There is no more unique place on Earth and that uniqueness comes from the people here.

It’s easy enough to see that the city is not only made up of people, but the experience of life here is made up of their moments.

A Moment Of Prayer
A Moment of Prayer, Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013
Night Shift At The Grace Building
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, Grace Building, NYC, 2013
Late Night Reader (Black And White)
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013
Late Night Midtown Walk
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013
3rd Watch at St. Patrick's Cathedral
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, St, Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC, 2013
 Brooklyn Bridge Park, FDNY
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, Brooklyn, NYC, USA, 2013
A Walk Down The MOMA Stairs
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, MOMA, NYC, 2013
A Quiet Smoke In The Park
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, Central Park, NYC, 2013
This Machine... (Black and White Street Musician)
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013

Filed Under: ARTS Tagged With: BlackandWhitePhotography, Candids, CentralPark, FDNY, Grace Building, MOMA, NewYorkCity, NYPD, Photography, Prayer, StreetMusicians, StreetPhotography, UrbanPhotography

New York In The Snow- Photographic Journal

by Mark Giarrusso

Saxophonist In The Snow

The magic of New York City in the snow is too enticing for any one with a camera to miss. During some recent flurries I grabbed my cameras and headed from my apartment on 55th Street over to 7th Avenue and then up and over to Central Park. The giant flakes made for phenomenal texture. It was amazing to see the city functioning in the midst of this beautiful atmosphere.

Double Decker In The Snow
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013
56th and 6th (Pride of Midtown)
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013
The Corner of 55th and 7th
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013
Black and White Snowy Facades
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013
6th Avenue Taxi In The Snow
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, NYC, 2013
Central Park Bridge In The Snow
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, Central Park, NYC, 2013
Central Park Steps In The Snow
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, Central Park, NYC, 2013
Saxophonist In The Snow
Photo by Mark Giarrusso, Central Park, NYC, 2013

Filed Under: ARTS Tagged With: BlackandWhitePhotography, CentralPark, NewYorkCity, Photography, Snow, StreetMusicians, StreetPhotography, UrbanPhotography, Winter

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