Skywinter

Photo tonight by Bobby Williams.

[And sorry to ruin a nice photo with that corny headline]

On the horizon

A view downtown from the East Village ... via Bobby Williams...

Jupiter and Venus over the Lower East Side

Venus and Jupiter have come together in what astronomers call a planetary conjunction. (I had no idea — I just cut and paste that from MSNBC.) Anyway, Shawn Chittle passed along this shot. Enjoy while you can.

Won't be able to see a Venus transit like this until 2117, which will coincide with the opening of the Second Avenue subway line.

On a cloudy night, you can see...

EV Grieve reader 8E sends these along from last evening atop the Cooper Square Hotel The Standard East Village...

Tonight

Dave on 7th heads to the roof, doesn't get called an asshole in an Urban Etiquette Sign.

Ominous

Dave on 7th has successfully left the city this afternoon ... And looking back at the skyline ... Don't panic, but run!

East and south

Views from the East Village...

Photos by Bobby Williams.

Southern Manhattan, 2:45 p.m., June 17

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Welcome back

Now that most everyone is back from the Thanksgiving holiday... Per the Glum Friend of EV Grieve, who had to travel, this is the first best part about returning to NYC. The ride back in from JFK or LaGuardia... and the first glimpse of the skyline from the road....




The second best part is likely when the cab drops him right off at his favorite bar...

Day to night in Manhattan in 2:21

Titled "Twilight Timelapse from Roosevelt Island." According to conorfuhdu on YouTube: "Taken with a Canon PowerShot SD870IS using the time-lapse movie feature. 2sec delay between shots." (Via Roosevelt Island 360)

"The landscape of New York will be virtually unchanged for two years"

From the Times:

Nearly $5 billion in development projects in New York City have been delayed or canceled because of the economic crisis, an extraordinary body blow to an industry that last year provided 130,000 unionized jobs, according to numbers tracked by a local trade group.

The setbacks for development — perhaps the single greatest economic force in the city over the last two decades — are likely to mean, in the words of one researcher, that the landscape of New York will be virtually unchanged for two years.

“There’s no way to finance a project,” said the researcher, Stephen R. Blank of the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit group.

Charles Blaichman is not about to argue with that assessment. Looking south from the eighth floor of a half-finished office tower on 14th Street on a recent day, Mr. Blaichman pointed to buildings he had developed in the meatpacking district. But when he turned north to the blocks along the High Line, once among the most sought-after areas for development, he surveyed a landscape of frustration: the planned sites of three luxury hotels, all stalled by recession.

Looking across at Manhattan in 1939

The Manhattan skyline looms overs the tenements of the Red Hook housing project in the Brooklyn borough of New York in 1939. (AP Photo)