Mirror Image

Sometimes to see the East Village, you have to look outside the East Village.

What do I mean, you ask?

Behold, across The Bowery from the St. Mark's Place gateway:

Mirror image.

Here is a close-up:

Close-up

It just goes to show you: the world itself is a mirror of the East Village.

#eastvillage #reflectybuildings #stmarksplace #thebowery #mirrors

Sculpture For Living

Every time I walk through Astor Place, I take a picture of one or both of the reflecty buildings there. There are just no bad angles! I'm going to have to start naming these posts by the date.

(It's true this isn't in the East Village, but you can see it from there!)

Of course, the one above-ground electric wire in the whole of Manhattan does hang just north of it! What are you gonna do?

Sculpture for Living.

The really cool thing about these two buildings is that when you look at them, you don't see the buildings themselves. You see multi-faceted reflections of the buildings, and sky, surrounding it.

It works when it's surrounded by concrete and brick buildings — a whole city of buildings like this would be weird! And maybe schizophrenic.

#eastvillage #astorplace #sculptureforliving

Reflecty Building Again

The reflecty buildings over at Astor Place are just extremely cool! This is another view of the building I posted the other day, looking East:

Reflecty building.

This is another building I noticed today, across the street (southward) from the one above. You can see the Carl Fisher building to the right:

Another reflecty building.

I wonder what one reflecty building looks like reflected in the other? It must be like a house of mirrors!

Reflecty Building

Over in Astor Place there's a cool, new building that's very reflecty:

Looking West.

You don't really even see the building itself, just the reflections of its surroundings. Maybe that's the idea — maybe it's not really there.