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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'photo'

May 9, 2008

A Westchester woman who had her laptop stolen didn’t even bother with old fashioned signs like the one pictured here – instead she remotely used the camera in her computer to photograph the culprits. The laptop was stolen from her apartment on April 27th along with $5,000 worth of other electronics. The Journal News has it that the unnamed woman got a call from a friend on Tuesday asking her if she was online; she......

Continue Reading "Say Cheese Laptop Thieves: Camera Foils Crooks"

May 6, 2008

Rendering courtesy of Municipal Art Society; original aerial photo by Jonathan Barkey. As a counterpoint to the new renderings of Frank Gehry's redesign for the Atlantic Yards flagship tower, here's a different perspective on the project's future look. The Municipal Art Society [MAS] has assembled a compelling slideshow that serves as a sort of dystopian crystal ball, depicting what could come come if Bruce Ratner moves forward with his development on 22-acres of land in......

Continue Reading "Slowed Atlantic Yards Project Could Mean Empty Lots"

May 5, 2008

Developer Bruce Ratner and architect Frank Gehry have announced that ‘Miss Brooklyn,’ the 620-foot residential and commercial tower planned for the 22-acre Atlantic Yards project, has been scrapped. In its place they’re proposing a building called ‘B1’: a 511 foot tall structure that will now house commercial tenants only. If they can be found – Forest City Ratner has yet to secure an anchor tenant for what will now be 650,000 of commercial space. B1’s......

Continue Reading "Goodbye Miss Brooklyn: Ratner Goes to Plan B1"

May 2, 2008

Reader Rob J. sent us this photo taken through a window looking out on Sixth Ave between Charlton and Vandam, snapped right after a police officer was thrown from his horse. We're told the officer has a shoulder injury, the horse is okay and was brought to the stable, and there's nothing more to see here, folks.......

Continue Reading "Photo of Zen: Mounted Officer Gets Bucked from Horse"

April 27, 2008

Using a Leica M2 with a 90mm lens, Cuban photographer Alberto “Korda” Díaz snapped the iconic photograph of Ernesto “Che” Guevara during a mass funeral for the victims of a mysterious series of explosions in Havana harbor that killed at least 75 people 1960. The service was held the day after the tragedy, and Korda, who was Castro’s official photographer at the time, managed two photos of Guevara as he briefly stepped onstage to......

Continue Reading "Chevolution, Tribeca Film Festival"

April 16, 2008

Untitled, by nyer82 at flickr Who knows what the backstory is to this photograph, but it would be nice if New York City had more personnel in this capacity on the job.......

Continue Reading "Picture of the Day: Scat Cop"

March 27, 2008

Spencer Tunick and a crowd of volunteer naked people brazenly defied the dress code at the Four Seasons restaurant last Saturday for Tunick’s 75th installation documenting the human form in unexpected places. Other New York locations where Tunick's models have gone au naturale include Grand Central Station and Times Square. Tunick’s Saturday shoot coincided with the day the Pool Room at the Four Seasons changes its seasonal décor to a Spring theme. This 20X24 photograph......

Continue Reading "No Jacket Required: Spencer Tunick at Four Seasons"

February 25, 2008

On Moore Street in Bushwick, you'll be hard pressed to find a better place to eat than Roberta's, the newly opened and very discreet wood-fired pizza haven. A fire engine red wood-fueled oven with the restaurant's namesake painted in white churns out thin and perfectly crispy pizzas (and the occasional calzone) for a spacious wood-paneled room with a cafeteria-table set up that still sports remnants of industrial garage doors. Cash only, and BYOB, Roberta's......

Continue Reading "Camera in the Kitchen: Roberta's"

February 23, 2008

One of the key factors in Roger Clemens condemnation of the Mitchell Report and the testimony of his former trainer Brian McNamee is the pitcher's assertion that he never attended a birthday at Jose Canseco's Florida home ten years ago. A photo may exist, however, that shows Clemens at that very party posing with an 11-year-old fan. The birthday party incident was asserted as evidence that the Mitchell Report's composition was sloppy and inaccurate and......

Continue Reading "Clemens Busted by An 11-Year-Old at Party?"

February 18, 2008

The above photo is a living replica of the Statue of Liberty, painstakingly recreated with 18,000 people at Camp Dodge in Des Moines, Iowa. The image is from 1918, and is one of many "living photographs" by Arthur Mole and John Thomas, who attempted to "recover the old image of national identity at the very moment when the United States entered the Great War in 1917." Flash forward to present day, shed some clothes,......

Continue Reading "Photo of the Day: Living Lady Liberty"

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