There are eight million stories in the Naked City - A Tudor City Nightscape

by Steve Ember

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There are eight million stories in the Naked City - A Tudor City Nightscape

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Steve Ember

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A very special moment for me, to step out on my hotel room's terrace and embrace the view I'd requested in reserving my accommodations. I've had a long-standing love for both the Terminal City (*) and Tudor City sections of Midtown East, ever since my first explorations as a teen, pointing my first film single lens reflex camera at the distinctive architecture soaring in every direction I looked. To finally take in the view, from this 16th floor terrace, on a crystal-clear December night, so many years later, is a treasured facet of my lifelong love for this special part of Manhattan.

In this view, the juxtaposition of three of Tudor City's 1920s apartment towers and the Mid-Century Modern form of the United Nations Secretariat Building frame the East River and a slice of Long Island City, Queens.

About the title ... As I worked up this photo from my first shooting from that terrace, I could imagine the voice of Mark Hellinger, during the epilogue of a favorite film noir, intoning “There are eight million stories in the Naked City..."

©2023 Steve Ember
(*) https://fineartamerica.com/featured/deco-nights-no-1-a-terminal-city-impression-steve-ember.html

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January 3rd, 2024

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