Sunrise from our Greenwich Village apartment, 12/25/2018
Looking east a little after sunrise on Christmas morning, from our Greenwich Village apartment. The first photo is the same view as the second—but seen through the fisheye lens.
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November in Greenwich Village
It was a cold, cold weekend. But lovely in Greenwich Village just the same. Took a few pix. Click on any image for a larger view and a permanent URL.
Views from Hudson River Park on an August Sunday
I can’t think of an urban park I admire more than Hudson River Park running south from Chelsea all the way to the bottom of Manhattan Island. The features vary; it’s not a single design. Some of the piers have been renovated, but each differently. The gardens are gorgeous, each...
Greenwich Village afternoon
On this cool, partly sunny afternoon, I met a friend for lunch on Cornelia Street. Along the way I snapped these photographs. Click on any image for a larger view. The fifth photo was taken inside Murray’s Cheese shop. The first two: Charles Street.
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. His new book is 
Founder/Faculty Director, 