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31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024 (fedia.io)

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31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024

All the pixels, but without the farmer's market 3 days a week, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.

This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making architectural photography be something of an exercise in surveying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.

The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol's "Factory" studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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have relatives who live about 6 blocks from there and it was definitely an interesting area in the 70s/80s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@paul_[email protected] I lived down there (maybe 8 blocks, in what's now called the "east village") in the mid 80's for a while. Definitely times have changed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] Oh hey, you were right by my office! Lovely photo.