MANHATTAN’S streets I saunter’d pondering
— Walt Whitman
photographs taken by Roger W. Smith
April 2016
The Brooklyn Bridge, which spans the East River, was completed in 1883. Since its opening, it has been a New York City landmark.
Walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and through Brooklyn is a great way for me to get home from Manhattan. Our neighborhood in Queens is very close to the Brooklyn border.
The Brooklyn Bridge has a boardwalk and is usually crowed with pedestrians and cyclists. Everyone seems to be in a good mood. Many people taking photos.
It’s a walk that gives me a high.
To get to the bridge, one has to walk downtown about two miles along Broadway. Then, another four miles or so from the bridge to our house. I like walking the pedestrian streets of Brooklyn. (By pedestrian here, I means the word in the sense of ordinary, lacking excitement per se.) They are on a human scale.
— Roger W. Smith
December 2016
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photographs (with one exception) by Roger W. Smith
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See also my post
“Is the Brooklyn Bridge boardwalk too crowded?”
George Crumb, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
based on Whitman’s poem
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2016
The attached article was published in the New York Times Travel section on Sunday, May 23, 2004.
Something about the article intrigued me.
A woman with a five-year-old son has an augment with her husband and decamps to Madrid for a day or two.
What self-indulgence!
I don’t know whether I approve or disapprove.
— Roger W. Smith
March 2016
This view of of Sunnyside, Queens, NYC from the No. 7 elevated train platform was taken by my son, Henry W. Smith.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2016
This interview with psychiatrist Ralph Colp, Jr. appeared in the November 2005 issue of Natural History.
New York Times, September 21, 2004
–– posted by Roger W. Smith
New York Times, August 8, 1995
Gay Wilson Allen was Walt Whitman’s biographer.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2016
