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The Helmsley Building is just north of Grand Central Station. In a unique arrangement, Park Avenue southbound goes in the arch seen here, through the building, and the northbound side comes out of the arch you can just barely see beyond it.


The U.S.S. Intrepid is just north of my cutoff line, between 45th and 46th Streets in the Hudson River.


The "Good Defeats Evil" statue, depicting St. George slaying the dragon, is on the north side of the UN Building on the East Side. It was donated by, of all places and times, the Soviet Union in 1990, on the 45th anniversary of the UN. I guess history proved that one prescient.


Rockefeller Center and its Christmas tree, from 5th Avenue.


Currently Elizabeth Arden but originally the Aeolian Building, this is at 5th Avenue and 54th Street. The last photo looks at the building behind it on 5th Avenue to the north.


146 E. 56th Street was built in 1910 as some sort of Fabric, Ltd. company. The Lipstick Building (yes, actual name, because of the shape and color) is just south of there on 3rd Avenue.


The extremely ornate Alwyn Court was built in 1909 in the French Renaissance style. Renaissance meant "no surface left smooth."


One57 is completing construction behind Alywn Court. Located at 157 W. 57th Street, it was one of the rash of over-1,000 foot buildings (1,005 here) being built around Central Park for fun. It topped out in 2012, opened in 2014, and I was there in 2013.


The colorful Manhattan terminal of the aerial tram to Roosevelt Island (check out the big link at bottom).


Another building just west of the Queensboro Bridge, and the 355' Con Ed smokestack just south of it.


Strange decor for the E. 60th Street Pavilion along the East River.


Switching sides to Riverside Park, and a short-term installation known as "Ringo."


Currently the Islamic Cultural Center, this is at 1 Riverside Drive.


Currently "The Park," this church is at Park Avenue and 85th Street.


Always the Beresford (1929) and Dorilton (1902), these buildings front Central Park (West) between 81st and 82nd Streets and Broadway at West 71st Street, respectively.


Église St-Jean-Baptiste, or the formerly French Canadian Church of St. John the Baptist, was completed in 1913 at 184 E. 76th Street. It's now just a regular, English-language, Catholic church.


Along the East River, looking north at Mill Rock and Wards Island, then looking south along the Manhattan shore. My favorite feature is the truncated dome that looks like an amphitheater but is really the Asphalt Green Municipal Asphalt Plant. It operated in that capacity from 1944-1968 and is now an athletic center.
So my family left my grandparents' apartment one afternoon in the early summer of 2004, after we'd stayed much longer than necessary to attempt to fix a radio (which we never mastered). Then we hear, "HEY NEW YORK? DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE OLYMPIC TORCH??" Not what I expected to hear above the usual traffic noise of the city. Anyway, here's what I captured with my handy camera:


Quite a small parade; just six photos and the tail end is already going by on Central Park South.

I give you movie of fire. You click. You watch.

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