Midtown rain
I'm a hacker-journalist, currently Head of Data at Skift and formerly at ProPublica. And this is my random New York photoblog. All photos unless otherwise specified are to be credited to: Dan Nguyen Check out my Flickr, my personal blog, or my books on how to program and take photos.
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Sunset over Central Park. And one more self-tooting post about how I’d like you to check out my SummerStage website, SummerStageLove, and if you like it (and even if you don’t, actually), give it a upvote in the contest. Voting ends at 5.
Brooklyn Bridge Park, the site of a Met Opera performance for this year’s SummerStage. Today is the last day to vote for #HackSummerStage entries. Check mine out at SummerStageLove.com and if it doesn’t cause you to go blind or into a seizure, please vote for it at its contest page!
The Times Tower, back before it became a gigantic stand for billboards. Via Lileks
More Central Park Loveliness. If you want to track this year’s SummerStage music acts at the Park, try SummerStageLove, a site I built specifically for that. And if you like it, please vote for it at the HackSummerstage challenge :)
This is what Manhattan looks like if you were to be hanging roughly 1,776 feet in the air from a crane. Via camera footage from the Port Authority, h/t @verge
The Museum of the City of New York has released a ton of photos of the Manhattan Railway Company, which operated the city’s elevated railway lines at the turn of the 20th century. Squeee!
h/t @Gothamist
SummerStage 2013 is coming! I built a website that makes it easier to search through the great music listings and also hand-compiled YouTube videos for all of the performers. The site is called “SummerStageLove“…Check it out here.
If you like it, please feel free to vote for it in the HackSummerStage challenge.
The only thing better than a service dog is a service dog you can carry! Awwwww….Seen on the L train
(Source: Flickr / zokuga)
Today, World Trade Center One reached its highest point. This is what it looked like two years ago tonight.