Lower Manhattan and World Trade Center Views

Corbin Building, the Fulton Center, and 195 Broadway from Dey Street





The WTC Transit Hub from Greenwich Street at Vesey





Looking down Greenwich St at the WTC Transit Hub and 3 and 4 WTC





Detail of the 1WTC base cladding





4WTC exterior finished; the building needs interior work, but is in its final form.





Looking up at 1WTC and 4WTC.





Ornate detail work on 140 West

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Drumbeat For Action Against Syria's Assad Grows Louder

The ongoing civil war in Syria has led to more than 100,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees situated in grim camps in Syria, Turkey, Jordan, and the entire region is in turmoil, especially after the latest reports indicating that chemical weapons of some kind were used against civilian populations in a Damascus suburb.

It's the latest in a string of scattered incidents involving chemical

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Yosemite Besieged By Massive Wildfires

At more than 120,000 acres, the Rim Fire continues burning all through the Central Sierra Nevada range, and has burned areas within one of the nation's crown jewel national parks - Yosemite.

While Yosemite Valley is safe for now, the same can't be said of the Hetch Hetchy area.



Hetch Hetchy Reservoir taken 4/2013


The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is San Francisco's primary water supply and is a

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From SoHo to the High Line

Yesterday was a gloriously beautiful day in the New York City metro area, that it meant only one thing - the ability to go down and check out one of the best areas of the City - SoHo and the High Line. All photos were taken with my Canon 60d and 18-55mm lens.                     

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Gov. Christie Must Fire NJ Transit Officials For Failing To Follow Rail Plan Before Sandy

Governor Chris Christie has given his blessing and backing to NJ Transit officials in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated NJ Transit's rail fleet. 343 railcars and locomotives were flooded and damaged. A portion of the fleet remains out of service due to flood damage.

The costs are in the hundreds of millions, and yet NJ Transit officials have skated by despite incontrovertible

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Egypt’s Descent in to the Heart of Darkness

Madness, power, and no good outcome on immediate horizon.

The military’s removal of President Mohammad Morsi opened up a can of worms from which the Egyptian polity is not likely to recover from anytime soon.

Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood had been busy attempting to impose its socio-political will on a nation that was largely unwilling to go along with their agenda. The military was even more

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Yet Another NJ Transit Trespasser Fatality

Well, it's been a crappy morning all the way around. NJ Transit had yet another trespasser incident with a pedestrian killed by an oncoming train just outside the Radburn Train Station. That left the morning commute for folks on my usual train line screwed. Today's incident was about a 1/4 mile from the nearest proper crossing.

This one appears to have been a suicide.

That's after another such

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