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Countryside Perfection Forty Minutes from Times Square

June 23, 2012

In Staten Island's Loretto Uniquely Deserted Area, one feels at peace. There are few people around, nature prevails, inner calm settles in. But no matter how hard one tries to forget the reality of that location, it is still part of the Five Boroughs and as such, yields an urban-rated illusion of escape. For a real dose of countryside, what the French call "la campagne", one must be willing to travel a little further - distance-wise at least because the time spent in transit between city-home comfort and wilderness...

More New York Harbor Scenes

June 9, 2012

Taken from boats, docks, rooftops, islands and other locations. Urban shorelines, all of them. Contrasting. Conflicting. Polluted. Populated. And yet, water makes it all better. Manhattan and Jersey City in the haze Gangway The giants By the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Leaving the Staten Island Ferry terminal High-rise Going home Spanish Navy training vessel Released On patrol Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Resisting progress Life saver...

A Fall from High Rock Park

November 13, 2011

No hurry, one tick, two salamanders, three people, four cameras. It was just another day on Staten Island. High Rock Park had put on a warm autumn robe of exclusive yellows. So starved for reds, we stopped at a strange pizzeria on our way back, reincarnation of a Brooklyn joint fallen from grace. I'm sure Marie will post about that. Fall in High Rock Park, Staten Island Fall in High Rock Park, Staten...

No Doomsday? Too Bad, I Had the Pictures Ready...

May 22, 2011

Well it would seem that the end of the world failed. I'm quite glad about that because I happen to be very fond of it, our world. It's beautiful, it's intense, it's cruel, violent and sometimes incredibly hard to understand - after all it is a concoction of so many complicated and seemingly incompatible ingredients: an intelligent race or two, countless competing species, an extraordinary plant kingdom, powerful weather patterns, immense oceans, theoretically self-regulating eco and bio systems, and chaos, and entropy, and...

NYC Sights: Queen Mary 2, Last of her Kind

April 30, 2011

She doesn't visit New York very often. But Queen Mary 2 is a transatlantic ocean liner, not just a cruise ship, and her lineage thus compels her to choose the glamorous Big Apple for port of call once in a while. Queen Mary 2 in the New York Harbour If the distinction was lost on you, let me explain: cruise ships are just huge floating tin cans built for the sole purpose of packing people up and displacing them on the water, pardon the pun. Ocean liners, on the other hand, were meant to serve as true transportation...

Shaking New York's Pandora's Box - Part 2

September 24, 2009

There was an excursion to the northernmost tip of Manhattan, an elevated outpost bordered by much water and covered in urban forest. We walked through Fort Tryon Park, past the Cloisters, to Inwood Hill Park and around the bend, along the mouth of the Harlem River to have shish kebabs on a bench. There were walks along the banks of the East River, Brooklyn side, at and past sunset. A sad realization there, as it turns out that the entire Promenade - which is built right on top of the BQE highway - shakes permanently so...

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