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My Manhattan

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Now I am curious what sight can ever be more stately and
admirable to me than my mast-hemmed Manhatta

— Walt Whitman

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photographs by Roger W. Smith

early Manhattan light, East Side, July 2016

Fifth Avenue, April 2016

Gay Street, Greenwich Village

early morning light, Murray Hill, Manhattan, July 2016

Murray Hill, Manhattan

New York Public Library

West Houston Street, Greenwich Village

New York Public Library

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Below are photographs of the main research library, New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, New York, NY.

A wonderful place — to visit; to do research; to find books that are long out of print; to read and reflect; to restore one’s sanity.

There’s no other public library like it.

Attracts readers and visitors from everywhere, yet never feels crowded.

Open and welcoming to all. No fees or permissions required.

Knowledgeable staff ready and eager to serve you.

Incredible resources.

— posted by Roger W. Smith

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photographs by Roger W. Smith

Pete's version, modified by Roger, of Aug 15 NYPL photo.jpg

main reading room - NYPL 1-28-2019.jpg

main reading room, NYPL 12-6-2018

New York Public Library 3-4-2019.jpg

42nd Street in the rain

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I took this photo in April 2016 on 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Manhattan is a wonderful place.

The New York Public Library — a surprisingly uncrowded, peaceful facility that invites study and scholarship, that welcomes and affords pleasure to the user, and that is staffed by knowledgeable librarians ready to assist you — is to the left.

— posted by Roger W. Smith

June 2016

Woodside, Queens, NY

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Woodside, Queens, NY, May 2016; photograph by Roger W. Smith

— posted by Roger W. Smith

May 2016

Manhattan in spring

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MANHATTAN’S streets I saunter’d pondering

— Walt Whitman

photographs taken by Roger W. Smith

April 2016

Union Square Park, Manhattan

City Hall Park, Manhattan

Broadway, near Union Square, Manhattan

Broadway, lower Manhattan

lower Manhattan

City Hall Park, Manhattan

Union Square Park, Manhattan

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge

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The Brooklyn Bridge, which spans the East River, was completed in 1883. Since its opening, it has been a New York City landmark.

Walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and through Brooklyn is a great way for me to get home from Manhattan. Our neighborhood in Queens is very close to the Brooklyn border.

The Brooklyn Bridge has a boardwalk and is usually crowed with pedestrians and cyclists. Everyone seems to be in a good mood. Many people taking photos.

It’s a walk that gives me a high.

It’s about four miles or so from our house to the bridge; and vice versa. I like walking the pedestrian streets of Brooklyn. (By pedestrian here, I means the word in the sense of ordinary, lacking excitement per se.) They are on a human scale.

— Roger W. Smith

December 2016

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photographs (with one exception) by Roger W. Smith

walking the Brooklyn Bridge