It was originally built in what's now Battery Park, to keep out the British invasion of 1812. Now it welcomes millions of visitors to New York Harbor. I'm just glad it's still standing.
What a thrilling perspective, that arching sweep sheltering the brick columns that are dissolving into blackness like Rembrandt's very own chiaroscuro, like centuries of time past, getting ready to swallow those monolithic chrome Bauhaus upstarts into the maw of more distant and deeper times.
I wonder how you got that photo, since the time we were there, so many people were milling around it would have been impossible. Mr. kenju's great-grandparents came into NY through there.
What a thrilling perspective, that arching sweep sheltering the brick columns that are dissolving into blackness like Rembrandt's very own chiaroscuro, like centuries of time past, getting ready to swallow those monolithic chrome Bauhaus upstarts into the maw of more distant and deeper times.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how you got that photo, since the time we were there, so many people were milling around it would have been impossible. Mr. kenju's great-grandparents came into NY through there.
ReplyDeleteTG -- that's just what I wanted to say.
ReplyDeletekenju -- if you click on the photo, you'll see how (not many people wanted to be down on the water in a driving snowstorm and temps in the teens).
I am such a naif when it comes to the Right Coast. That is why I was surprised that Battery Park is located at the southern tip of Manhattan.
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