The first part of this day, I spent working on my photos and blogging. Than, I went to Manhattan, on the East River side, where you can walk and sit, like in a german “Kurbad”. You can even walk to the Battery Park, just mind to hold your breath, passing the Helicopters – their smell is awful. For a guy from Hamburg, everything above 70 Degr. is a...
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Today, it was the last Monday of May, the real Memorial Day. For a german guy, it doesn’t feel normal, to celebrate this kind of pride. Michela, the beautiful, I live with, made me to visit this event at the Hudson, and I don’t regret it. It touched me, to see the american people and soldiers talking to each other with so much respect and fun, the...
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[codepeople-post-map]For the americans, the Memorial Day is a serious thing, and they celebrate it for a long weekend. Allmost every business has special offers this time, and in the whole city, you find something related to this holiday. For me, it was a relaxing day. I took photos at the Washington square park, my version of the famous picture of the movie...
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Because of this great night, my day today startet at noon. From my to-do-list, I choose: Find the place, where Berenice Abbott took her famous picture of the Manhattan Bridge – (the first one on this site) and make your own version of it. Another thing, I found in this street – a great bookstore for used and old books, which now is struggling – so...
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[codepeople-post-map] The first challenge of the day was quite simple: Find a Bank of America and get some Money. From 2012, I knew, the was one at the Times Square – so I got there: Eat this …:Posted by Weltgesehen on Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015 And of course, the place was still there, but only the Bank was not, just a fence of America … So, I...
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Because of the six hours delay, it is still the 20th of May, here in the Big Apple, 9 PM. From Berlin to Amsterdam and than to New York, landed at 2 PM, I went to Queens by subway. Now, I am back her in this Appartment of Michela, an my room smells just the same, like three years ago, felt like coming home. A lot of things might have chenged, but A LOT didn’t...
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This is, where they belong, on the wall, where everybody can see them. Of course not everyone of them. In 2012, I took about 2000 photos in New York. The keepers were 1400. The preselection for the exhibition 119, and now, there are 18 on my wall, 16 in black and white, ten of them in beautiful black oak frames with passepartout. It took me two weeks of working on...
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Yes, I am still into the New York based movies, and this one suits my hunger for adventure very well. “The secret life of Walter Mitty”. I always was a dreamer and too often also stuck into the dreams, not able to get out of the comfort zone, and yes, I still am sometime. So, I love to see Walter Mitty finally taken by his own dreams and taken by them...
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So many people love her, Sarah Jessica Parker, but how many of them even know this movie, I am watching right now? “If Lucy fell” And guess, where it takes place? Yep, New York. What a great Idea, having a picnic on the Brooklyn Bridge. I should do that too, with the same view … I love about this movie, that it is innocent in a way, I don’t...
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Almost three years, it was standing on the shelf now, beautiful, as it was in 2012, when I bought in on a flea market in Williamsburg. And suddenly, today i wanted to know, what the backside shows. Lets discover: The next question was: When was this map made? There was no year written on. So, I searched the internet and found this site about Hagstrom, the...
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