A look at the Earth Day rainbow, somewhere over the Christodora House

In case you missed it late yesterday afternoon... after the rain and during happy hour... thanks to aegisnyc for the photo...

Today

Photo via Rob & Mike

This morning's spectacular sunrise

The view from East Second Street… Photo by Caz Lulu via Facebook…

Evening rain

Photo this evening by James and Karla Murray

Sunset, just now

Photo by James and Karla Murray via Facebook

Christo and Dora in sunset serenade

Wow… Goggla spotted hawk parents Christo and Dora at a usual meeting spot atop the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer on East Third Street…

Today's morning cloud coverage

[Avenue A and St. Mark's Place]

Thank goodness there's social media for people to know whether it was (or is!) cloudy outside. This morning's clouds were particularly photogenic ... and maybe a little creepy ... or menacing... threatening? Whatever! Probably just a metaphor for life anyway.

And here is a panoramic view via EVG Facebook friend Chris Protopapas...


[Click to enlarge, as they say]

Updated 12:14 p.m.

Apparently these clouds are "Very Cool Nimbo Cumulus, not seen very often," per WABC 7 meteorologist Bill Evans.

2:25 p.m.

AKA, It was a dark and story day.

Photo by Bobby Williams

Anyway, no need to paaaaaaaaaaanic...

FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 5:15 PM FOR ALL OF NYC. 2" to locally 4" of rain can fall causing rapid flooding: pic.twitter.com/RKApBHY6o3

— Storm Team 4 NY (@StormTeam4NY) July 15, 2014

So long to the last day of spring, probably

Photo this evening by Bobby Williams

A panoramic view of last night's incoming storm

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Photo by Dan Celio via Facebook.

A little sky before it rained a lot late this afternoon

A view from East Seventh Street via EVG reader Elle Sturm...

Night and day East Village skyline

[Photo by Grant Shaffer]


[Photo by Bobby Williams]

A view of the East Village (and more) from atop the World Trade Center in 1978

Earlier this morning, we posted the photo (via Time magazine) of the neighborhood from atop of the One World Trade Center ...



East Village resident Felton Davis just shared this ... a scan from one of several hundred Kodachome slides from the World Trade Center Observation Deck from the 1970s (this particular shot is circa 1978)... showing the neighborhood (and more) from a similar angle...



Also, as a bonus, here's a photo at sunset showing the shadow of the Twin Towers extending all the way across the East River and into Williamsburg...

What can YOU see?

You made have seen this feature yesterday when it was making the rounds... Time magazine has this mind-boggling (depending on when you are looking at it) photograph from the top of the One World Trade Center.

Gothamist had some info from the news release about how Time got this panoramic shot:

[T]he magazine worked with Gigapan "to build a rotating camera that could withstand the conditions atop the tower. An eight-month process of design and construction resulted in a 13- foot-long aluminum jib that would attach to the base of the spire, and serve as a rotating arm for the camera. Over five hours of shooting, the camera produced nearly 600 images that were then stitched together digitally into a single massive ­image of everything the eye can see in all directions. Users can zoom in and out of the panoramic photo to take in the entire city."

EVG friend Pinhead zoomed toward our part of the city ...



Per Pinhead: "Shades of the old Shorpy's Con Ed pic."

Indeed!

From 1913...

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Speaking of views...

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The latest photo from EVG contributor jdx ... looking north along Avenue A... with the trees of Tompkins Square Park on the right... and with Midtown disappearing in the distance.

In the fog

Photo by Bobby Williams

We keep posting photos of the sky

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This is actually from yesterday morning ... via Bobby Williams.

That early-morning sky

Photo by Nick Solares.

Once more with feeling

Thanks to @EliJGay for sharing this shot this evening from East Ninth Street...

Early this evening in cloud coverage

Photos by Bobby Williams