Tag: East River

  • Harlem Foundry

    Harlem Foundry

    A standard tenement entrance on Easts 125th Street: Notice the cast iron pillar on the right, and the foundry advertising on the pillar’s base: The address is not one we’d use today: 106 ST ER NY But the meaning is clear: 106th Street at the East River. Today the FDR has wiped out any waterside…

  • Photoville in Harlem

    Photoville in Harlem

    Photoville – an annual outdoor celebration of photography has a couple of sites in Harlem: Location number 8 on the map (above) is on the esplanade walking and biking path along the East River, between 97th and 98th Streets. The photography represents an afro-futurist vision of presence in an imagined, retro future. The images are…