Mounds of Mums at Abingdon Square. Photographed by Marc and I. The first 4 are mine and the last 4 are Marc’s.
Local leaves shot in Greenwich Village, New York City.
A couple of old houses
The late 18 c. or early 19th 121 Charles Street (link: brick underground.com) has a fascinating history. GVHS also has an excellent write-up on 121 Charles Street.
Ac cross the street from 121 is a building with a huge roof garden. I love how it spills over the walls.
132 Charles Street was built in the 1899. Both these old houses have wooden sidings, as do a only a few others in Greenwich Village.
Seeing the shops boarded up and few people around it feels almost deserted. I thought it strange to see the cellist returned to his usual spot pre-pandemic.
Westbeth for artists is also in the Village. Part of the old High Line is shown here. Check out the link for history.
Charles lane is near the Hudson River in Greenwich Village. “Only one tangible remnant of the Newgate Prison still exists today, the narrow, sidewalk-absented Charles Lane, which marked the northern boundary of the prison property. It appears on this 1885 map, but the City officially mapped it on official records beginning in 1893, when it gained its unusual brick paving.
Charles and Christopher Streets are named for the same man, Charles Christopher Amos, a landowner who had inherited part of Sir Peter warren’s massive Greenwich Village estate in the colonial era. Unusually, the streets were named Christopher, Amos, Charles going north; Amos was renamed West 10th Street as far back as the 1840s.” (source: Forgotten NY) See the old photos and details in Forgotten NY.
I’ve been entertaining myself with tutorials on two Photoshop Panels, The Zone System and Palette Effects by Blake Rudis at the F64 Elite Academy.
The first two images are the results of my first dabble with it. Three and four are before editing. I like the rich and colorful results.
