OCTOBER PHOTOS
My colleague Gent and I spent half a day this month checking out some sights in New York City – chief among them the South Street Seaport and “The Great Elephant Migration,” a temporary outdoor art installation in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.
There wasn’t much color showing on the city’s trees in early October, but we did drive past this yellow patch on the lower West Side near the Hudson River. We also visited a handsome waterside pathway and a busy fishing hole for youngsters.
Here are distant and close-up views of the Statue of Liberty and the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal.
At Manhattan’s southern tip is Battery Park, which features a view of some local skyscrapers and an old-fashioned subway entrance.
The choice merchandise available in this area is $5 headgear; and as for vittles, there are Sabrett and other treats.
Battery Park boasts some lovely greenery.
Here are several views of the Castle Clinton National Monument – the fort that was garrisoned in 1812 but never used for warfare. It served as an entertainment venue, an immigrant processing depot, the first home of the New York Aquarium, and is now a visitor center and departure point for ferries to the Statue of Liberty.
I couldn’t resist taking a picture of Two Broadway (top rear) – the building where I began my legal career in 1962 – along with a few of its neighbors.
Some more good-looking buildings . . . .
. . . and here are three of the best.
We next drove over to the South Street Seaport, which has undergone major modernizing in recent years. It now even sports several of Carol Feuerman’s “Swimmers” sculptures that were featured
in my August blog entry.
The Ambrose Lightship is a star of the seaport.
Some views of the clipper ship The Wavertree, against the backdrop of large office buildings.
Here’s a shot of the lightship from a good angle.
Boats leave the Seaport periodically with passengers to cruise up and down the East River.
We then headed over to where these gentle giants were set up on
Ninth Avenue between West 15th and Horatio Street.
The elephants, which are made of layers of fine, woody reeds, were created by the Coexistence Collective – a community of 200 indigenous artisans living in India’s Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve – to raise money and awareness for wildlife conservation.
The artists fashioned the elephants from lantana, an invasive weed that has swallowed up more than 100,000 square miles of Indian forest, threatening the food supplies of local animals. I was taken by these little guys alongside their enormous parents.
Here’s some more shots of the offspring.
As you can see, the elephants attracted Manhattan’s kids . . . .
. . . and also adults, groups, and my colleague Gent.
If you didn’t get to see the exhibit by October 20, you’ll have to rely on these photos, since the big guys have since headed to Miami Beach and from there to Los Angeles.
After that, as we headed uptown towards my apartment, the signs I saw from the car made me aware we were in Chinatown, which would have been another worthwhile photo target – but we decided to save that for a future month.
Here’s my closing homeward-bound shot, taken from the East Side highway, highlighted by the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge crossing the East River.