New York Winter Night - Midtown in the Snow - By Vivienne Gucwa A couple stops for a romantic pause while the snow swirls around them on a cold winter night in New York City. Taken in midtown Manhattan during winter storm Nemo, a blizzard that dropped nearly a foot of snow on the city, the vantage point is on 5th Avenue looking south towards lower Manhattan. --- - New York Through The Lens - New York Photos

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New York Cityscape - Skyline at Sunset - By Vivienne Gucwa

There is something really extraordinary about the shift between day and night in New York City. It's gradual and at the same time abrupt in its magnitude. The lights on the skyscrapers flicker on as the night sky pulls itself over the city while the sun is still dancing with the horizon. I love this time more than I love the moments when the sun disappears for the night.

It's this sort of in-between time that seems to suit a city full of people who feed off the frenetic energy and constant shifts that occur on a momentary basis. New York City rarely dwells in absolutes. Its landscape and structures only seem to remain still.

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This is a view from the Top of the Rock (also known as 30 Rock and the top of Rockefeller Center). The skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan sit in the foreground leading up to the Empire State Building and further in the distance sits the Freedom Tower and lower Manhattan.

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Bushwick Street Art - Brooklyn - New York City - By Vivienne Gucwa

The sky wavered in mood earlier today displaying an angsty mix of rage-puffed storm clouds and baby blues streaked by sunlight. It was the perfect backdrop for Bushwick's incredible array of street art murals that pepper the industrial urban landscape.

I have been spending an inordinate amount of time in Brooklyn lately. My other half was born in Brooklyn (I like to refer to it as his "hatch-zone") and is a great walking-off-steam companion. And so we keep ending up in interesting places on these walks.

Bushwick was never really a friendly place when I was younger (this is a severe understatement). It's fascinating to see the stage of evolution it seems to be in currently. The factories are all still there but there is also an amazing amount of art that seems to be thriving on the walls of Bushwick. Growing up in Queens ogling 5 Pointz, a large industrial space transformed into a premiere space for graffiti/street artists to cover in art, I was sad to hear that 5 Pointz will eventually be razed. However, Bushwick seems to have a blossoming 5 Pointz feel at this moment in time which is exhilarating to witness.

Who knows what the future holds for Bushwick? But, for now, it's a perfect mix of grit and art.

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New York City - Rain and Wet Sidewalks - By Vivienne Gucwa

Through eyelashes wet with rain,

a thousand thoughts fall

to the ground

and through the raindrops

the city lights blur together

as shadows make their way

into the night -

impermanence

registered with

every blink.

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New York Winter Night - Midtown in the Snow - By Vivienne Gucwa

A couple stops for a romantic pause while the snow swirls around them on a cold winter night in New York City. Taken in midtown Manhattan during winter storm Nemo, a blizzard that dropped nearly a foot of snow on the city, the vantage point is on 5th Avenue looking south towards lower Manhattan.

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Heart of it All - Above Chinatown - New York City - By Vivienne Gucwa

This is one of my favorite views of Chinatown. The view is of East Broadway, a main street in Chinatown that extends into the Lower East Side. A girl sits on one of the rooftops eating a bowl of food in the upper right hand corner of this photo. The Municipal Building sits in the distance.

This particular spot is a Chinatown neighborhood known as ‘Two Bridges’. Two Bridges sits along the East River and has long been a dwelling spot for many different immigrant communities over the years. It sits alongside the infamous and historic Five Points area where Irish, Jewish and Italian gangs battled to the death in the mid-19th century. It is currently home to a large community of Chinese immigrants and many of the buildings are tenements dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Trees Grow in Brooklyn - Cobble Hill Brownstones - New York City - By Vivienne Gucwa

The light after a heavy rain is transcendent. Deep golden hues cling to the damp tree branches as they frame lush green leaves reeling under the weight of the rain water.

It’s all the more impressive against a backdrop of beautiful brick brownstones that can be found in neighborhoods like Cobble Hill located in Brooklyn. Cobble Hill (or Ponkiesbergh as it was first called) was originally settled during the 1640’s by Dutch farmers. The name “Cobble Hill”, according to various historical sources, came from the large amount of cobble stones being disposed in the site.

The cobble stones were used as ballast on the trading ships arriving from Europe. The high elevation point at the corner of present day Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, where the greatest amount of the cobble stones was disposed, was used as a Fort during both the American War of Independence and the War of 1812.

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New York Winter Night - Times Square in the Snow - By Vivienne Gucwa

Two people huddle under umbrellas as a yellow taxi cab slowly crosses an intersection in Times Square during winter storm Nemo in New York City. Snow covers the street and swirls around under the multitudes of lights that illuminate Times Square at night.

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New York Night - Queensboro Bridge and the Manhattan Skyline - By Vivienne Gucwa

When the night falls hard onto the city's shoulders and the sky drapes a dark blanket over the skyscrapers and buildings, it's hard to contain the effervescent charm that bursts forth after the sun has retreated.

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This is the Queensboro Bridge which is known by a few other names depending on where you are from and how long you have lived in New York City. Despite growing up in Queens, I will always think of this bridge as the 59th Street Bridge because I think I belonged to one of the few families in Queens that for whatever reason associated the bridge more with 59th Street in Manhattan. It's also known as Queens Bridge which is a shortened form of Queensboro Bridge. Its current official name is the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, named after the now deceased former mayor of New York City who held office from the late 70s to the early 80s. He was many things least of all a "character" (as we say).

The vantage point is from Roosevelt Island and this is the result of a 30 second exposure taken with the Sony A99. It was taken on a bitterly cold night in the beginning of March while I was having a spirited conversation with one of the Roosevelt Island security guards regarding the abandoned smallpox hospital further down the island. I tend to love to shoot long exposures alone but it was great to have the company (and quirky conversation) that night. It's those type of moments that make me love the city: little bursts of spontaneity and brevity while watching the lights sparkle in the city's eyes.

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Under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge - New York City - By Vivienne Gucwa

I had a recurring dream when I was younger that puzzled me for years. It involved boarding a hovering bubble shaped vehicle and ascending over the skyscrapers until I was soaring under the bridges and through the cavern-like spaces of the city. It was euphoric but also terrifying at the same time. When I was older, I finally relayed the dream to someone and they laughed and asked if I had ever taken the Roosevelt Island tram when I was very young. I had no recollection of it. It prompted me to ask my mother if we had ever done such a thing and she said it was possible but she couldn’t remember a specific time that we would have done it (my mother, like me, is absolutely terrified of heights). It’s possible that my family took the tram to Roosevelt Island at some point and the experience embedded itself deep into my imagination where it mixed with other flights of fancy (pun intended) of flying through a Gotham-like city like Batman.

So, when I found myself photographing the underbelly of the 59th Street Bridge (also known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge or just the Queensboro Bridge) late last week, it was hard not to recall those earlier dreams and feelings they invoked while I stood there waiting for the long exposure to capture 30 seconds of what had haunted me for years. The bridge is one of my favorite ones in the city. Its architecture is distinctive when viewed from the side but I absolutely love how slick and dripping-with-sci-fi-overtones it appears when viewed from below. The bridge travels from darkness into the light of a gleaming New York City as the water below it only stirs with the occasional disruption of a boat. You can also make out the cables that the Roosevelt Island tram travels on to the right of the bridge.

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New York Winter Night - Midtown in the Snow

- By Vivienne Gucwa

A couple stops for a romantic pause while the snow swirls around them on a cold winter night in New York City. Taken in midtown Manhattan during winter storm Nemo, a blizzard that dropped nearly a foot of snow on the city, the vantage point is on 5th Avenue looking south towards lower Manhattan.

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New York Winter Night - Midtown in the Snow - By Vivienne Gucwa

A couple stops for a romantic pause while the snow swirls around them on a cold winter night in New York City. Taken in midtown Manhattan during winter storm Nemo, a blizzard that dropped nearly a foot of snow on the city, the vantage point is on 5th Avenue looking south towards lower Manhattan.

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New York Winter Night - Midtown in the Snow

- By Vivienne Gucwa

A couple stops for a romantic pause while the snow swirls around them on a cold winter night in New York City. Taken in midtown Manhattan during winter storm Nemo, a blizzard that dropped nearly a foot of snow on the city, the vantage point is on 5th Avenue looking south towards lower Manhattan.

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