Peter and CartLegger, here´s another image of one of my paintings related to Brooklyn as the one I posted last Sunday which I don't see anymore on your current list of articles. As mentioned before, I no longer live in Brooklyn, but many of the photographs, texts and memories deal with this Borough and would like to post them here, in this site. The painting above was finished in 1999, Oil on canvas.

Williamsburg Bridge

author: Mike L. : New York, NY

East River, Near Brooklyn Bridge

author: Mike L. : New York, NY

Grand Street Bridge Repair

author: Peter : Queens, NY

First, read this... This past weekend, Cartlegger and I happened across a rather rare (at least to me) sight... the NYC DOT had the Grand Street Bridge wide open for repairs There was even a work-crew and a DOT vehicle out on the open swing span The workers, though a bit weirded out that I was walking around snapping photos, seemed pretty nice and let us walk around the work site One worker made us let him take a photo of us, then cracked a few jokes. I think he had had...

Baruch Houses from the Williamsburg Bridge

author: CE : New York, NY

May, 2009 Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City

Raymore Bridge

author: Michelle : Toronto, ON

On a bike ride this past weekend on the north Humber trail in Etobicoke my parents and I came across an interesting memorial that you would nearly pass by without noticing. It is for those who lost their lives or homes due to Hurricane Hazel in the 1950s. Most of the memorial has become weathered so that it blends in with the trees and bushes along the trail, but luckily we managed to spot it.

Throgs Neck Bridge

author: Sean Hopkins : Queens, NY

I took these with my '78 Olympus OM-1 camera with a Sigma fisheye lens, and on one of them I used the built in yellow filter. A cable release was used for 5-10 second exposures. Crouching down by the Utopia Parkway exit on the Cross Island Expressway

Sidetracked in Harrison: Stadium and Bridge

author: Peter : Harrison, NJ

Just east of Newark, across the Passaic River likes the first east-bound stop on the PATH, Harrison, New Jersey. The Port Authority Police were of course none too pleased to have me toting a camera on their otherwise very boring platform, so I was quickly dispatched to street-level by a sympathetic officer who took me as "just another railfan", and sent me on my way. The Harrison PATH Station Established in 1840. Apparently, they also have a...

Manhattan Bridge Nocturne

author: CartLegger : New York, NY

from national historic register: New York's first bridges were engineering marvels, but little thought was given to entrances and exits, instead focusing primarily on the river crossing. That changed with the evolution of the City Beautiful movement, and one of its crowning accomplishments was the Manhattan Bridge plaza, completed in 1916, seven years after the Manhattan Bridge itself, and designed by the architect team Carrère & Hastings, best known for their 1898 New York Public Library. Over one thousand families were evicted to accomodate the plaza on a rectangle 400'x750' bounded by the Bowery, Canal, Bayard and Forsyth Streets. The plaza...

The Shortest Bridge to the Bronx

author: CartLegger : Bronx, NY

from Randall's Island to the Bronx across Bronx Kill, it may be the shortest inter-borough Bridge in NYC. Yes, unlike the other bridges of New York City. But its still a bridge, right? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bronx&sll=40.683007,-73.980064&sspn=0.037881,0.090981&ie=UTF8&ll=40.801768,-73.922072&spn=0.001182,0.002843&t=h&z=19

Opened on February 5 1903, the Grand Street Bridge is a rotating swing-span bridge that crosses Newtown Creek, spanning northern Brooklyn to southern Queens. This is the view fro mthe base of the bridge, looking northwest over the industrial lots of southern Queens. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bridges/grand.shtml en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Street_(Brooklyn)