If it wasn’t because f the vintage vehicles, we couldn’t tell if this photo was taken today or 40 years ago.
The presence of those black cars, the old buildings with fire escapes, the image has such a nostalgic mood… a classic New York. It feels like an old classic movie. Also reminds me the movie “Breathless” by Jean-Luc Godard, where the main character sells New York Herald Square Tribune along the Champs-Elysees. Can feel nostalgic about something that I’ve never had? I would love to walk along this image…
Live in “New York City” once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in “Northern California” once, but leave before it makes you soft.
[Baz Luhrmann]
When I arrived in New York, I felt like I was in a movie all the time. Yellow cabs, fire escapes, Times Square, subway stations, snow, Fifth Ave, Central Park, East Village, Strawberry Field, Hot Dogs, Glamour, Weird people, Chinatown, Hip Hop, Madison Square Garden, baseball, football… Everything was so cinematographic, photogenic, interesting… Now, I am part of the picture.
When I passed in front of this restaurant, I suddenly felt I was one of Woody Allen’s characters going for a date with a married guy in that charmed restaurant far from the Upper East Side.
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