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Central Park Super G - Split Shots on Flickr.

Post-blizzard stunt skier Gabrielle transforms a staircase in Central Park into a downhill showcase. As dozens of park visitors looked on, she strapped on her skis at the top of the stairs and pushed off—managing to take flight by the second landing. Gabrielle picked up the pair of Rossingnols for $30 on the street last night for the express purpose of ruining them on unconventional urban slopes. After this run, she was packing up her equipment in search of staircases with a smaller audience.

Solo + Backup on Flickr.

Australian songstress Amanda Merdzan travels back to NYC and performs a set at Gizzi’s in the Village. It looks like Marilyn Monroe is singing backup.

Next show next month: Tuesday 11/13 at Piano’s on the Lower East Side.

Resonable Self Promotion on Flickr.

A go-getter takes his or her job search to the street, looking for a rich person to assist—probably not in spelling or syntax though. I shot this back in 2009 and recently came across it in my archives.

Straight Lines and Curves on Flickr.

The straight vertical lines of the Curtiss-Wright (orig. Ampico) Building built in 1923 are shown up by the sloping glass curtain wall of SOM’s 1974 tower 9 West 57th. Some criticized the latter building’s curved facade for destroying the streetwall along 57th Street. Indeed, immediately below the frame of this image, the raw, unwindowed side of the Curtiss-Wright building is exposed where another building once abutted it. The net effect is that it looks like Cross & Cross’s building has been pantsed by modernism.

Twenty Seconds Over Washington Square on Flickr.

Dusk falls over Washington Square on an unseasonably warm April evening. The Washington Square Arch is brightly lit through the trees just at center-left. 1 Fifth Avenue towers above the square, marking a new phase in the city’s march to the north.

iCar on Flickr.

iPhone iconography jumps to automobile on 62nd Street in Manhattan.

Downtown on Flickr.

1 WTC (under construction), 7 WTC, Woolworth Building, Gehry’s 8 Spruce.

Fifth Avenue Catwalk on Flickr.

It’s Fashion Week 2012 in the front window of Henri Bendel on Fifth Avenue, where a lone Anna Wintour-esque figure appraises the stream of fashionistas passing down the sidewalk.

Happy New Year of the Dragon on Flickr.

Thousands of New Yorkers crowded into the World Financial Center Winter Garden Saturday to watch a dance performance presented by The New York Chinese Cultural Center. The performance celebrated the 2012 Lunar New Year, which is the Year of the Dragon.