November Nocturnes: New York City at Night (Photos)

Occasionally, I joke to myself that after four years of blogging about New York, mostly in the daytime, that I should go back and do everything again but at night. The night in the city is a different world, a theatrical space lit with artificial illumination that seems the very opposite of the city's hard-nosed reality in sunlight.

Street lamps, holiday lights, incandescents, LEDs, heat burning devices, spotlights, marquee lights, display case lamps, and a myriad other lighting devices turn New York streets into a theatrical experience. These artificial lights prompt the imagination to make up stories for night's individual street scenes. The images that follow are not depictions of the famous city at night - Times Square, Broadway, the skyline, etc. - but are simply peripatetic snapshots from the more prosaic of our streets.

Please fill in the rest of the picture with your imagination.

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

City Nocturne

Images by Walking Off the Big Apple made with an iPhone4 and the Hipstamatic app. November 2011.

Comments

Leslie said…
Fabulous.
I really like your photos, especially the first couple. Shadows that made me do a double take.
Tyler said…
What great pictures, Love them.
Teri Tynes said…
Thanks so much, all. I am most appreciative of your positive comments.

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