By Vladimir Brezina
Elsewhere, it might have been quite enough that this big scary thing was going to join the party.
But on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, people take their Halloween very seriously.
No mere hurricane was going to restrain their Halloween decorations!
Here are a few highlights:
Click on one of these photos to start a slideshow:
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I think these portraits qualify, too, as an appropriate response to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week, Spooky…
Posted in Art, New York City
Tagged Halloween, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Spooky, Street Decorations
By Vladimir Brezina
This week, Ailsa’s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge is On Display.
And it’s that time of year again…
This was the display last year (more photos are here). This year’s display is already starting to go up. Watch this space in a couple of weeks!
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Halloween, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Street Decorations, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Arranged: “… find something in your environment which was arranged by a human hand …”
Hmmm…. how about a human hand arranged?
Posted in Art, Culture, Photography
Tagged Arranged, Halloween, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Street Decorations, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The Upper East Side of Manhattan takes Halloween very seriously. Halloween is still some days away, but decaying bodies, chained skeletons, and giant black spiders have festooned the area for weeks. The block of 92nd Street between Madison and Park Avenues is particularly worth seeing… here are some photos from that block and a couple of adjacent ones.
Posted in Art, Culture, New York City
Tagged Halloween, New York City, Photography, Street Decorations
... has kayaked the waters around New York for over a decade in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He comes originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and has lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He is a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
