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St. Marks Place - Photo Gallery

These are just a few of the scenic pictures around the St. Marks Place neighborhood. I'll add to this page over time as I explore the area with my camera.

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A patriotic mosaic lightpost salute to American Theaters

Would you like a cappuccino with your tattoo?

Mosaic light post - an East Village Icon

Empty space where 'The Cube' should be located. As soon as the cube returns, I hope to take this same picture again.

The cube is back!

Restored Astor Place Subway Kiosk (for the green-6 line), shows what subway entrances looked like around 1900.

Inside the Astor Place Subway Station, ceramic pictures of beavers (John Jacob Astor made his fortune from beaver pelts).

The St. Marks Hotel marks the entrance to the busiest section of St. Marks Place.

How skinny! Love the brickwork too.

Don't bother asking any of these folks for directions...

A metal, sculpture, animal, spring-loaded... uh... pet?

Fancy grillwork entrance to the Theater for the New City

Yes! Those are the hand prints and signatures of Joan Crawford and Dom DeLuise outside the 80 St. Marks Theater

Brightly colored playground in Tompkins Square Park

Fall colors in Tompkins Square Park

Colorful brownstone

Give the earth a great big hug!

Woah, man, it's like... psychadelic...

Beautiful gold mosaic at the entrance to the local Ukranian Church

Did anyone see my child? He was right next to me a second ago...

Falafel! Shawarma!

Quirky store: Whiskers Holistic Petcare. 'We treat the whole pet!'

View over the St. Marks Neighborhood (from Google Earth) looking towards the east. Notice the cube up front and Tompkins park in the background. Also note: the parkinglot in the foreground (next to the cube) is now a curvy building.

Looking towards the west with Tompkins park in the foreground.

The oldest extant branch of the New York City Public Library. Originally called the Freie Bibliothek, now the Ottendorfer Library.

Carved busts of Greek and German doctors and scientists at the entrance to the Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital.

Jazz inspired mural outside Veselka.

Mosaic eye outside an eye center.

A burlesque tribute: Molly Picon, Minsky Brothers, Burns & Allen, Bowery Boys

Shapes

Tini little triangular park where Stuyvesant Street meets 3rd Avenue.

The newest building on the block - a curvy glass tower beside the cube.

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A 911 tribute to the fallen firefighters of the FDNY.

911 tribute to the NYPD.

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Gothic church on 7th Street (between 1st and 2nd ave) - next time I walk by it, I swear I'll get the name

Mosaic tribute to our nation's constitution.

1787-1987

Quick, call Homeland Security!

The Yaffa lady.

Little Missionary's Day Nursery

Street Art: Fish in love

Street Art: Fish in a bong in love

Street Art: Fish heads in love

Street Art: Cafe Mogador

Mural tribute to the World Trade Center
 


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