50Day46: 51st and 10th
by citymars

Comment by rachelellen:
Great shot, with wonderful detail. As with all of your urban shots, there's so much to look at that I can get engrossed in looking at this photo like I can when I'm reading a story.

There goes the neighborhood indeed! It's funny... our circumstances are so COMPLETELY different, but the something similar is happening here. I was born and brought up and still live in a rural area, part historical, part touristy, part bedroom community for the many employees of the major national park that's right next door. VERY rural ... not a single traffic light or even an incorporated area in my entire county. Now we have people coming over from the Bay Area to retire, or up from LA to get away from the noise, or even up out of the valley to enroll their kids in our good, safe schools, and these are not the kind of people who've lived here for the past hundred years. They don't like old cars, they think 5 acres is an ENORMOUS stretch of land and who could POSSIBLY use any more than that, and (most importantly) they have far, far more money at their disposal than even the wealthier families who were here before they came. So the landscape is changing completely, from big ranches interspersed with little old houses, to one new "planned development" after another. Average home prices have shot up from $100K to $400K or $500K in the space of five years. So yeah. You're in Hell's Kitchen and I'm in hickville but the end result is the same: There goes the neighborhood.

50Day46: 51st and 10th
by citymars

Comment by Ken:
Up, up, up we go. Lots of interesting shapes and lines to fill the frame.

50Day47: River View at Dusk
by citymars

Comment by rachelellen:
feels grim and kind of... sad. I'm not sure why, maybe it's the haze. Nice evocative shot.

50Day47: River View at Dusk
by citymars

Comment by bs-photos:
Neat shot, the tones give it that end of the day feel.

50Day47: River View at Dusk
by citymars

Comment by Ken:
I like the overall moodiness here.

50Day46: 51st and 10th
by citymars

Comment by bs-photos:
Nice way to fill the frame! Nice colors & DOF.

50Day47: River View at Dusk
by citymars

Comment by Germaine:
Very beautiful. I love the beigeish cast.

50Day46: 51st and 10th
by citymars

Comment by Charlene:
And you even caught a plane in there too! It amazes me what goes on in NYC... as you can imagine from a person in Kansas ;) I like the lines and colors of the buildings.

50Day46: 51st and 10th
by citymars

Comment by roz:
great shot .. interesting write up especially about the new bit on top of the old building .. is that a bird or a plane?? .. :)

50Day37: Chelsea Barbershop Pole
by citymars

Comment by colorcarnival:
Interesting, this is another one of those things that one takes for granted. Love that you caught the reflection of the busy street in the window. Very funny that the pole leans like that!