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Tag Archives: New York City
RDP Wednesday – BLANK…
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MV Obsession 2023-08-21 19:51:37
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 262 : Faces in a crowd…
New York City
Proposal in Times Square
Grand Central Station

Junior’s restaurant
Carnegie Hall
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Tagged animals, faces, Lens Art Photo Challenges, Lens artist photo challenge, New York, New York City, sheep, theater, Times Square - NYC, trains
Cosmic Photo Challenge : Shadows and Silhouettes…





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Tagged bridges, buildings, Cosmic Photo Challenge, Lighthouses, Martha's Vineyard, New Jersey, New York City, silhouettes, skylines, sunset
CBWC: Storefronts or Signs…
I decided to do both storefronts and signs…
Storefronts
Bunch of Grapes book store on Martha’s Vineyard, MA

Bunch of Grapes pub – London England
Shubert Alley – New York City ————-Alley’s General Store (circa 1858) Martha’s Vineyard, MA


Signs





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Tagged CBWC, London, England, Martha's Vineyard, New York City, signs, stores
MV Obsession 2022-12-31 18:47:46
Thursday’s Special: Pick A Word – December 2022…
The five words to choose from are: tribute, wading, townscape, harbor and bokeh. I’m choosing to do each one.
TRIBUTE. memorial to the search and rescue dogs of 9/11 in West Orange, NJ facing NYC.
WADING.
TOWNSCAPE… NYC looking across the East River from Brooklyn.
HARBOR – Edgartown harbor on Martha’s Vineyard looking towards the island of Chappaquiddick. The ferries are On Time I and On Time II.
BOKEH.. the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image.
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Tagged 9/11, boats, Chappaquiddick, dogs, Edgartown, harbor, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, memorials, New Jersey, New York City, rivers, seashore, September 11th, statues, Thursday Special
MV Obsession 2022-12-04 18:43:09
Silent Sunday – Looking up…
Looking up in NYC at Christmastime
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree


Radio City Music Hall

Macy’s and the Empire State Building
Bryant Park Christmas tree

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Tagged buildings, christmas, New York, New York City, parks, Silent Sunday, skylines
Lens-Artists Challenge #203 – Local Vistas..
I live in northern New Jersey and a lot of places are pretty local as we’re not a very wide state
Looking east from New Jersey is one of the most amazing and most recognizable vistas I can think of… New York City. Where better to see it then from New Jersey. These views are from Liberty State Park in Jersey City.





Looking west is the Delaware Water Gap that separates New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A beautiful drive through the rolling hills of New Jersey especially in the autumn.
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Tagged Lens Art Photo Challenges, Lens artist photo challenge, Martha's Vineyard, New Jersey, New York City
Once Upon A Time There Was A Train From NYC To The Vineyard (really)…
Mid-June every summer of my childhood my mother and I would start our trip to the Vineyard.for the entire summer There was no I-95, not that we had a car anyway… no, our train travels would begin in Newark, New Jersey and end in Woods Hole. Yes, WOODS HOLE, trains used to go right to the ferry.
We would take a train from Pennsylvania Station in Newark, NJ to Pennsylvania station in New York city where we would have to run from one end of the station to the other to board the New York/New Haven & Hartford’s train on the Old Colony line called the Day Cape Codder, which would take us all the way from New York City to Woods Hole, MA. That’s right, all the way to Woods Hole. Pennsylvania Station was built in 1910, covered nearly 8 acres, extended 2 city blocks and was one of the largest public spaces in the world. Its 3 year demolition began in October 1963. It was replace with another Penn Station which Madison Sq Garden sits atop… it’s functional but not as beautiful as the original.


The trains had dining cars with each table dressed in fancy tablecloths and crisply ironed napkins. The waiters and conductors were always the same and seemed to remember me from year to year… made me feel special and grown up. Train service to Woods Hole ended in the 1960′s.

The train stopped at what is now the staging area for cars waiting to get onto the ferries. The tracks ran under the overpass in the left corner of this photograph. It was literally only steps from train to boat. A comfortable and luxurious way to travel in the days when lots of people didn’t have cars and the road system left a lot to be desired anyway.

(Woods Hole circa 1890’s)

(circa 1950’s)


The ferry, the Nobska/Nantucket would take us to MV.

We’d land in Oak Bluffs and our relatives would be there to greet us, and three glorious months on the Vineyard would begin.
We traveled light, I would have my favorite doll, Beverly, and my teddy bear with me and my mother would have a small suitcase with a few belongings in it, the rest of the things… like ALL my toys we sent to and from the Vineyard by Railway Express.

It took days for the rest of our things to arrive and Beverly and I would watch every day for the Railway Express truck to arrive at our house…


…and then summer on the Vineyard would officially be under way
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Tagged Massachusetts, New York City, Newark, NJ, railroads, trains
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Arch…










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Tagged Martha's Vineyard, New York City, Newport, RI, Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
Lens-Artists Challenge #190 – Close and Closer…



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Tagged bikes, ferry boats, Lighthouses, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, museums, New York City