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Apr 01 2025
Offbeat New York
Photos by Will T Rogers, Queens NY
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Annonymous vintage web image of The 59th Street Bridge and its "Upside Down Building" on what was then Welfare Island; you could get off the cross-bridge trolley car at its mid-bridge station and enter building on its roof and then take an elevator to the ground; the view is from the Queens side of the East River
The Empire State Building looking up
The Empire State Building looking down
In the Narrows
You sometimes see strange things when you drink
There may be danger up ahead on the East River
Still unfinished George Washington Bridge, today missing granite slabs covering towers like Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge and its shadow
Like an amusement park ride, the tram rises from Manhattan across the East River to Roosevelt Island; it averages about 12 mph to travel 3,100 feet in 3 minutes; its peak height is 250 feet or 25 floors above the water
Really?
1963 Chevrolet
Yankee Stadium
It’s easy to play one game at a time
How about playing five games at the same time
Cleopatra's Needle, Central Park
Odd advertisement
Get nails done and have a drink on the same visit
Where oh where can this be?
New York landing
Ear Inn: beer and burgers downtown west side (original name just "Bar")
Still life Soho
'14th Street' subway
Singer of "Heart of Glass;" photo taken of outdoor wall in East Village
The Worry Theatre
Good bike on busy sidewalks; flag is easy to see in a crowd
Three eyes on wall
Panorama
Old steam heat
Grand Central Terminal ceiling
Tea party for one?
Why could this car have never been a taxi, even in 1950?
Another view
Security décor
Kaleidoscope image of blanket in Kew Gardens
Radio daze nostalgia
Apartments with a view
Water tank: quite an invention for supplying water pressure
Holdout
The padlock worked
Offbeat
Semi-real
Unreal
Time to go home
Annonymous vintage web image of The 59th Street Bridge and its "Upside Down Building" on what was then Welfare Island; you could get off the cross-bridge trolley car at its mid-bridge station and enter building on its roof and then take an elevator to the ground; the view is from the Queens side of the East River
Like an amusement park ride, the tram rises from Manhattan across the East River to Roosevelt Island; it averages about 12 mph to travel 3,100 feet in 3 minutes; its peak height is 250 feet or 25 floors above the water