#central Brooklyn

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_1087 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

The first image in this set was shot in September 2001. A moment when Times Square was virtually empty because of the 911 Attack.

[emaadsidiki]

New York Nights 🌉

[smallbunn]

i just think jake from b99, fry from futurama, and troy from community would absolutely love hanging out together

[bbg100]

I know I know we have already clowned on this person so much, but like step away from disco elysium brain for a second. The idea that stories have to be uplifting and palatable to all is bad. It closes your eyes to so much art that is vital to understanding people throughout cultural boundaries. Disco Elysium is a complicated, distinctly non American story that makes you step outside of your base assumptions and question the unquestionable. The story does this deliberately. Wanting that story to erode into something simple and idyllic- that is a cruel neutering. I feel like American progressive culture focuses too much on demographic diversity, and not enough on diversity of experiences and history. The need to make a checklist- you play as a disabled, non man! Queer themes! Etc. That takes away your ears towards a wide variety of stories that ARE queer disabled non white etc. Because you are looking for a hamfisted, virtue signaling obviousness, you are missing the intricate stories told by people who don't have your background. Your phd in politically correct American english. By valuing the ability to speak this progressive language, and policing the words used to describe someone's own experiences - you're not listening. You're missing out on art.

So yeah. If you close your ears to disco elysium because it's a grimy detective story with a white man (it's...not set in America but let's just let the concept of whiteness stay for simplicity). Then you're not actually accepting of diversity. You're accepting of the checklist.

[foolishlyzephyrus]

the angels take manhattan is such an entertaining rewatch when you gain a passing knowledge of new york because none of the geography makes sense

[brooklynmuseum]

Summer days spent in the city may very well lead you to one of our borough’s great green spaces… Prospect Park.

“Spending time in the park afforded me a temporary escape from the fast pace of city life,” says Jamel Shabazz. “Photographing in [Prospect Park and Central Park] also provided me with the opportunity to create various distinguished bodies of work, from environmental portraits, candid images of families, and endless celebrations that took place on any given day.”

Add our stoop to your route to or from the park to see portraits like these as part of Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023. 

📷 Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Father & Son, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2008. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). A Reflection of Love, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2000. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). A Frozen Moment in Time, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, circa 2005. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Best Friends, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, circa 1997. © Jamel Shabazz

[bobsliquorstore]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Zelda Fitzgerald's New York

Zelda Fitzgerald loved New York, where she lived in the early 1920s. A talented painter (as well as writer and dancer), she created these works over a period of years, from the 1920s to 1943. In 1996, her granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, included many of her works in a book, Zelda: An Illustrated Life.

Eighty-three of her paintings are available for purchase as prints from art.com. These are the ones of New York.

Above: Central Park in the spring.

The Brooklyn Bridge, apparently after a party.

Fifth Avenue. The view is dominated by St. Patrick's Cathedral, in whose rectory Zelda and Scott were married in 1920. On 5th Avenue, everyone celebrates.

Grand Central Station

Grant's Tomb

Times Square. "Past the Rialto, the glittering front of the Astor, the jewelled magnificence of Times Square … a gorgeous alley of incandescence ahead . . . " (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned)

Washington Square

Scottie and Jack, Grand Central Time. This is the last of the pictures, painted in 1943, when her daughter Scottie married Jack Lanahan, seen here in his Navy uniform.

Photos from art.com and HuffPost

[rabbitcruiser]

Benches/Chairs (No. 93)

Central Park, NYC (four pics)

Union Square Park, NYC

Harbor View Lawn, NYC

World Trade Center Station, NYC

Bryant Park, NYC

FDNY Firezone, NYC

[vnjv]

[mymomsaiditwasaphase]

So like, how does Raphael have a Brooklyn accent when the turtles are in Manhattan?

[imfunnyha]

horsie 🐎

[wanderingnewyork]

From 2018: An M train enters the #Central_Avenue_Station, #Brooklyn.

[way-out-there]

[highher]

Central Park. Newyork city

[shogun-paints]

“Brutalist Diptych”

Thanks to the models at Amazing Aquarium (2136 86th St, Brooklyn, NY 11214) who posed for my SONY a7 III, 28-70mm Lens 🐠🐟🐠🐟

Random internet pic: Parque Central Complex in Caracas, Venezuela 🇻🇪