Brooklyn Bridge, Looking East, New York City Side, July 7, 1899. (Daniel Berry Austin, Brooklyn Museum)
by Albert Mollon, New York (yes, really).
Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 33rd Street (1934)
96 & 98 St. Marks Place, or the buildings on Physical Graffiti if you’re a Led Zeppelin fan.
The “Human Squirrel” who did many daring “stunts” in climbing for benefit of War Relief Funds in New York City, ca. 1918. (National Archives)
What are YOU doing up here?
FLY LIFE A peregrine falcon perched on a beam at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor Wednesday while another falcon soared through the air nearby. The bridge is home to a pair of the birds and their chicks. Brooklyn’s Belt Parkway is seen below. (Photo: Patrick Cashin / Metropolitan Transportation Authority via the Wall St. Journal)
Miles Davis, Birdland, NYC, 1949.
Miles Davis was born 85 years ago today in Alton, Illinois.
Check out some live tracks of Miles, solo and with Thelonious Monk, in our show 50 Years of Newport Folk and Jazz.
Image by Herman Leonard, (c) Herman Leonard Photography, LLC
(Source: americanroutes)