New York City
A comet over NYC.
New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. In 1664 the English took over New Amsterdam and renamed it New York in honor of Duke of York (later James II & VII). New York City is in reality a collection of many neighborhoods scattered among the city’s five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island—each exhibiting its own lifestyle. It’s challenging to paraphrase this metropolis but in ‘The New Colossus’ Emma Lazarus has written it best:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Project description
Comet c/2020 F3 NEOWISE was visible over the NYC skyline in July 2020. These were the images of the comet with an urban scene I had in mind once it was visible in the evening sky, but the weather was challenging with the passing cloud cover that kept rolling over the east coast.
Seeing these images on the back LCD screen of my camera I couldn’t help but marvel at the idea, there was a comet (about 73 million miles away at the time) seen through the intense artificial skyglow of NYC over the NYC skyline heading back out to return in about 6800 years or so. It primed me to wonder what the world and NYC would look like in the future when it returns.
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