NYC Photos - Building Facades

A few days ago, I posted some iconic skyscraper photos I took during a recent trip to New York City. But there is so much more architecture in NYC than just skyscrapers - and I also took a lot of great photos of shorter historical buildings and landmarks, churches, bridges, and other architectural details, some of which I share below and many more of which I'll feature in future posts!

Today's blog post focuses on secular building facades - museums, libraries, train stations, historical buildings, tenements and apartments... Buildings I specifically set out to visit (the exteriors and/or interiors), or buildings that just caught my eye as I was walking by!

NYC Photos - Skyscrapers

My husband and I recently went on a trip to New York City - my first time ever in the Big Apple! For someone who has always loved theater and art, NYC has always been on my bucket list in a big way. Because I wanted to see everything, we went for eight days/nine nights (the concierge at our hotel was shocked how long we were staying!), and we made a plan to ensure we went to everything we wanted to do.

We took tours - the Circle Line Landmark Tour, which is a boat tour around the harbor; the NBC Studio Tour inside Rockefeller Center; the Statue Cruise boat out to Ellis Island; a tour of the New York Public Library; and an audio tour of Grand Central Terminal. We visited museums - the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), the Museum of Modern Art (the MoMA), the Tenement Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the Ellis Island Museum. And we took in shows - an improv show at the United Citizens Brigade, the off-Broadway "Puffs" (a Harry Potter spoof play that was hilarious), "Avenue Q" (a fabulous puppet-musical off-Broadway), and the Broadway show "Lobby Hero," starring Michael Cera, Chris Evans, Brian Tyree Henry, and Bel Powley.

We also walked around several iconic neighborhoods including Hell's Kitchen/Chelsea (especially the High Line park), Chinatown/Little Italy/the Lower East Side/SoHo, the Financial District/Lower Manhattan, NoHo/Greenwich Village, just a bit of Brooklyn, Central Park, and Midtown/the Theater District (the last several times, as that's where our hotel was located).

The weather didn't always cooperate. We were there from March 30-April 7, and during that week we saw rain, mist, fog, snow, wind, and a little bit of sun. (I had been hoping to avoid most of the snow/cold by early April, but apparently we should have booked the trip for a few weeks later - winter has really been holding on this year!) Still, we managed to do most of what we wanted to do, even if I had to take photos of the Manhattan skyline in the fog, instead of in the sun.

I took over 2,000 photos over the time we were there, and I'm not going to post them all on this blog. But I am going to post a lot of them, over the course of several days/weeks. Today, I'm focusing on the best pictures I took of skyscrapers - those iconic NYC buildings that make up the famous skyline. I plan to use at least some of these pictures for future artworks.