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photographs by Roger W. Smith
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
photographs by Roger W. Smith
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Gateway National Recreation Area, Lower Bay
Staten Island
photographs by Roger W. Smith
— posted by Roger W. Smith
October 2025
photograph by Roger W. Smith
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay (known as the Loewr Bay) and the Atlantic Ocean.
The bridge was named for the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1491-1528).
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2025
New York Harbor; photo by Roger W. Smith
Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies, — Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2025
Rosa, the proprietor of a fresh fish mart in our neighborhood, is friendly with me and my wife.
We told her we would share some photos.
They are posted here.
Rosa, an immigrant who lives in Queens, wrote back:
Wow.
Such nice beautiful pictures!
New York is so vibrant & beautiful!
You take Such good pictures.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 29, 2025
These photographs were taken by me at the northernmost point of Manhattan, in Inwood Hill Park. The view (looking north) is of the Hudson River.
Few New Yorkers, other than those who live in the neighborhood, know of the park or have ever been there.
– posted by Roger W. Smith
January 2025
New York Harbor
photo by Roger W. Smith
photos by Roger W. Smith
Juniper Valley Park, Queens, on a January afternoon
Roger Smith's New York 