The MetLife building, as seen from a cab on a beautiful spring day
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.
Ask me anythingToday, a Duck Tape store is opening in Midtown (near Broadway and 39th St). Quality of life will be immeasurably improved
This is presumably inspired in part by the Project Runway prom dress duck tape episode this season.
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A green Empire State Building with the moon. Not bad but I prefer the hot pink lights.
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Just in case you needed a new iPad during #Nemo at around midnight, the Fifth Avenue Store was still going strong. They don’t close down for weather unless the subways are shut down (as they were during Hurricane Sandy)
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Happy 100th Birthday Grand Central! Here are some photos I’ve taken over the years here. The Guardian has a cool interactive feature about the GCT’s secrets.
Times Square is actually quite beautiful when the bitter cold has culled the lesser tourists. You can see more NYC in Winter photos in my album here.
Radio City Line & Fifth Avenue Crowds, as taken by Yale Joel for LIFE in 1961