2024-02-03_11-20-51_ILCE-7CM2_DSCCH9595_DxO
Day 2 - Travel to New-York - February 2024 Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017. Vibrant Chinatown is a densely populated neighborhood that draws foodies and tourists to its many Chinese and Southeast Asian restaurants for dumplings, pork buns and hand-pulled noodles. The busy sidewalks are packed with souvenir stores, bubble tea shops, and markets selling everything from fresh and dried fish to herbs and spices. Locals hang out in leafy Columbus Park for Tai Chi, chess and mahjong.Day 2 Various pics of the day two in New-York Diverses photos prisent en New-York le jour deux.
2024-02-03_09-21-39_ILCE-7C_DSC18646_Kiri_DxO
Author : @Kiri Karma Day 2 - Travel to New-York - February 2024 Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017. Vibrant Chinatown is a densely populated neighborhood that draws foodies and tourists to its many Chinese and Southeast Asian restaurants for dumplings, pork buns and hand-pulled noodles. The busy sidewalks are packed with souvenir stores, bubble tea shops, and markets selling everything from fresh and dried fish to herbs and spices. Locals hang out in leafy Columbus Park for Tai Chi, chess and mahjong.Day 2 Various pics of the day two in New-York Diverses photos prisent en New-York le jour deux.
2024-02-03_09-03-21_ILCE-7C_DSC18606_Kiri_DxO
Author : @Kiri Karma Day 2 - Travel to New-York - February 2024 Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017. Vibrant Chinatown is a densely populated neighborhood that draws foodies and tourists to its many Chinese and Southeast Asian restaurants for dumplings, pork buns and hand-pulled noodles. The busy sidewalks are packed with souvenir stores, bubble tea shops, and markets selling everything from fresh and dried fish to herbs and spices. Locals hang out in leafy Columbus Park for Tai Chi, chess and mahjong.Day 2 Various pics of the day two in New-York Diverses photos prisent en New-York le jour deux.
2024-02-03_08-53-34_ILCE-7CM2_DSCCH9316_DxO
Day 2 - Travel to New-York - February 2024 Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017. Vibrant Chinatown is a densely populated neighborhood that draws foodies and tourists to its many Chinese and Southeast Asian restaurants for dumplings, pork buns and hand-pulled noodles. The busy sidewalks are packed with souvenir stores, bubble tea shops, and markets selling everything from fresh and dried fish to herbs and spices. Locals hang out in leafy Columbus Park for Tai Chi, chess and mahjong.Day 2 Various pics of the day two in New-York Diverses photos prisent en New-York le jour deux.
2024-02-03_08-44-30_ILCE-7CM2_DSCCH9296_DxO
Day 2 - Travel to New-York - February 2024 Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017. Vibrant Chinatown is a densely populated neighborhood that draws foodies and tourists to its many Chinese and Southeast Asian restaurants for dumplings, pork buns and hand-pulled noodles. The busy sidewalks are packed with souvenir stores, bubble tea shops, and markets selling everything from fresh and dried fish to herbs and spices. Locals hang out in leafy Columbus Park for Tai Chi, chess and mahjong.Day 2 Various pics of the day two in New-York Diverses photos prisent en New-York le jour deux.
1857 graffiti (Snowball Dining Room, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA) 2
Western Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave on Earth, with 426 miles of passages currently explored & mapped, as of March 2024. The name “Mammoth Cave” does not refer to its world-record length, nor to the early discovery of mammoth or mastodon fossils here (actually, fossil proboscidean skeletal remains have been reported from this locality). Rather, the name refers to the immense size of many of the rooms and passages. It is not certain exactly when Mammoth Cave was discovered. A story about its 1797 discovery by a man named Houchins (or Hutchins) is fictional - the park service knows this, but still tells the story during cave tours. However, Mammoth Cave’s earliest acknowledgement in available historical records dates to 1797. Seen here is mid-19th century graffiti in the famous Snowball Dining Room, a site where meals used to be served to tourists. This unique underground cafeteria was closed in the mid-2010s. The Snowball Dining Room is so named in reference to the irregular hemispherical masses of whitish gypsum on the ceiling. Early accounts likened the room to a site where boys had a snowball fight. Early tourists often left their names on passage walls or ceilings. This practice (= vandalism) continued well after the area became a park. Methods of leaving a signatures included making scratches, using candle smoke, or using burned, carbonized material as a writing tool. This graffiti was made on 17 August 1857 by a tourist. The message acknowledges the cave tour guide, Nick Bransford. A fifth-generation descendant of Nick was still a tour guide at Mammoth Cave Park in the 2000s. The bedrock here is part of the Joppa Member of the Ste. Genevieve Limestone (Middle Mississippian). Locality: wall of Snowball Dining Room, Cleaveland Avenue, Mammoth Cave Ridge, Mammoth Cave National Park, western Kentucky, USA ---------------------------------- (accessed with park permission)
1869 graffiti (Snowball Dining Room, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA)
Western Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave on Earth, with 426 miles of passages currently explored & mapped, as of March 2024. The name “Mammoth Cave” does not refer to its world-record length, nor to the early discovery of mammoth or mastodon fossils here (actually, fossil proboscidean skeletal remains have been reported from this locality). Rather, the name refers to the immense size of many of the rooms and passages. It is not certain exactly when Mammoth Cave was discovered. A story about its 1797 discovery by a man named Houchins (or Hutchins) is fictional - the park service knows this, but still tells the story during cave tours. However, Mammoth Cave’s earliest acknowledgement in available historical records dates to 1797. Seen here is 19th century graffiti in the famous Snowball Dining Room, a site where meals used to be served to tourists. This unique underground cafeteria was closed in the mid-2010s. The Snowball Dining Room is so named in reference to the irregular hemispherical masses of whitish gypsum on the ceiling. Early accounts likened the room to a site where boys had a snowball fight. Early tourists often left their names on passage walls or ceilings. This practice (= vandalism) continued well after the area became a park. Methods of leaving a signatures included making scratches, using candle smoke, or using burned, carbonized material as a writing tool. This graffiti was made in 1869. "Hoofland's Tonic" is written on walls in several places in Mammoth Cave. The knee-jerk reaction is that this is an ad for old-fashioned snake oil - and it is exactly that. Also known as "Hoofland's German Tonic", this was a rum-rich version of "Hoofland's German Bitters". The bedrock here is part of the Joppa Member of the Ste. Genevieve Limestone (Middle Mississippian). Locality: wall of Snowball Dining Room, Cleaveland Avenue, Mammoth Cave Ridge, Mammoth Cave National Park, western Kentucky, USA ---------------------------------- (accessed with park permission)
46.WalkToTidalBasin.SW.WDC.17March2024
Walk to Tidal Basin along Maine Avenue between 13th and 14th Street, SW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 17 March 2024 by Elvert Barnes Photography KOAST WRITING ON THE WALLS / GRAFFITI TAGS 2024 Project elvertxbarnes.com/graffiti SPRINGTIME IN DC / Cherry Blossoms Walk to Tidal Basin Elvert Barnes 2024 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/ncbf Elvert Barnes March 2024 at exbphoto.com/2024