Everyday New York City - West Village

by Mark E Tisdale

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Everyday New York City - West Village

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Mark E Tisdale

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Photograph - Photo

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I feel like this photo from the top of an open air tour bus in New York City represents a quintessential scene of New York. While there's no massive landmarks or recognizable buildings for those of us who don't live there, it just looks like New York doesn't it?

Towering apartment buildings, dense housing, and those omnipresent water towers that seem to sit atop every apartment building in the city. This is the New York that I remember.

The title of this work is something of an inside joke. On one of my tour buses later the same day, something caused us to go off the route. I don't remember if it was an accident or a traffic jam or what but the bus guide was going down an unfamiliar street and was trying to fill the silence, but she didn't have any stories to tell about anything we were seeing and stammered out that it was generic New York City.

Weeks later as I edited my photos, I looked at this image and it hit me this was generic or everyday New York City. It was an image I believe captured the spirit of NYC, a city filled with people, even if the photo doesn't feature a single well known building.

I also didn't know where this was actually located for quite some time. I was thrown off the trail by another photo of the ground floor of the building showing a Papaya King that moved out shortly after. This is the corner of 7th Avenue and 14th Street in the West Village. The ground floor of the building on the corner is now a bagel shop.

To see more of my NYC art, search for "New York" on tisdaleart.com

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July 24th, 2012

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