Back in the summer of 1989, my dad gave me his old Pentax K-1000 and a few pointers, and I set out to try and capture a bit of my New York City. I took hundreds of pictures, and there would be no way to capture so many views around the city without getting a lot of the Twin Towers in there. So here are a bunch of views that no one will ever experience again:
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Looking down at the World Financial Center from the rooftop observation deck of Tower 2. The waterfront park below was still being built at this point. |
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Looking down at Battery Park and the mouth of the Battery Tunnel from the rooftop observation deck. This is the southern tip of Manhattan. |
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Looking up from underneath a light pole in the plaza beneath the WTC. From that angle, it’s almost impossible to really appreciate the scale of the two towers. |
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Looking northwest at the transmitter tower (the main transmitter array is out of the frame), west midtown, the Hudson River, and New Jersey. |
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View of one of my favorite old office buildings from inside the marble-lined lobby of Tower 2. |