Every so often I shoot a picture of the World Trade Center’s Tower 1. This time I decided to put the latest picture I took side by side with one of the earliest pictures I took of the tower just peeking out above ground… So here is the side by side comparison. In about a year and a half the tower has grown tremendously and the picture on the right is the first picture I’ve gotten where the first 6 stories of glass...

After dumping all my photo’s from my camera, this was probably my favorite shot of the weekend. I think by the end of the year the Freedom Tower will be seen from the Brooklyn Bridge just peeking out from the surrounding skyline. Here you may be able to see it is almost at the same height as the surrounding buildings. I will periodically get pictures as I go into Manhattan but there is also a live webcam at http://www.earthcam.com....

I recently stumbled across these works of art that are completely made up of cans of donated food. All these structures were done by Canstruction.org, an organization that is fighting hunger. These structures were strategically placed all over the World Trade Center Mall area and I thought it was an entertaining way to develop awareness of a growing problem. This is not just an organization that is asking for food donations, they are out...

I’ve had the opportunity to watch the new Freedom Tower continue to go up this summer and these are some of the clips from different vantage points from around the World Trade Center. Not all the clips are from the same day but they’re all from the last month. By next year I’m hoping the new Freedom Tower has risen to the point it can be seen over all the other buildings in the surrounding area and I’ll get a couple...

I only made this video for one reason and one reason only… I wanted to get a shot of the quote that is posted at the entrance of the Marina. It sums up the essence of NY very well (with the exception of the mention of a record store which there aren’t many of anymore) and I wanted to index it on my blog. The quote goes as follows: City of the World for all Races are here. All the lands of the Earth make contributions here. City...