On September 17, 2011, protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement began demonstrating and living in New York’s Zuccotti Park. They called the small plaza in Manhattan’s Financial District “Liberty Square.” That’s where Occupy Wall Street is. But what is Occupy Wall Street? According to their official statement, “Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many […]
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The Andy Warhol Project
Look for Rob Pruitt’s The Andy Monument at the northwest corner of Union Square. The monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York’s cultural icons, is installed just outside the building that housed Warhol’s “Factory” for more than ten years in the 1970s and early 1980s. Like the nearby […]
Remembering September 11 in New York: A Guided Tour
“Damn. It’s already 8:58,” I grumbled, glancing at the morning show graphic on the television screen. I was running late for work… again. I rushed to the bathroom to brush my teeth and searched for my brown loafers. “Will I need a jacket?” A walk to the window revealed a crystalline blue sky. The air […]
Six-word Memoirs: Losing Loved Ones on 9/11
The PBS news program “Need to Know” featured this very moving segment on New Yorkers coping with the loss of loved ones on 9/11. Watch it here. They also created a beautiful slideshow of loving tributes.
NYC Montage
This beautiful video montage of Manhattan features Gershwin’s classic “Rhapsody in Blue.” While this footage is relatively recent, note Times Square before it became “pedestrianized.”
Another New York City Timelapse
Another beautiful time lapse film of New York City, this one by James Ogle.
Sub City New York
In this short film by Redglass Pictures, emerge from the New York subway… and find yourself in a new, sometimes unexpected world. The filmmakers aptly describe this montage as a “visual poem.”