The other day, I took Negrosa, my vintage Mercian Olympic on an after-work ride in Jersey City, Bayonne and Staten Island.
I just missed a Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan. The day was Classic Fall—clear, cool and crisp and I’d brought a book I’ve been reading (yes, a real book—nothing digital!) so I didn’t mind the wait—12 minutes, as it turned out—for the next boat.
That delay was rewarding—in an aesthetic sense, anyway. What I witnessed from the deck of that ferry boat made me wish that my camera were as old-school (i.e. with film) as my book. Or, better yet, that I had an easel and palette.
There hardly could have been a better ending to a Classic Fall day—and ride. Some people say autumn sunsets are the most beautiful of all. I wouldn’t argue with them.
After I disembarked in Battery Park, twilight flickered to my left as I pedaled by the South Street Seaport, across the Williamsburg Bridge and up through the neighborhood for which the bridge is named to my place in Astoria.
Great photos!
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