York Avenue Between 79th St and 77th St

All up and down York Avenue you're able to find just about everything a neighborhood would need – and sometimes more. This stretch for example has two bodegas within 50 feet of each other. Identical in just about every way, they both seem to do a substantial amount of business. Sharing the street is also a wine store, two nail salons, two dry cleaners, a post office, a magazine shop, two restaurants, a flower shop, an elementary school and several others. See? I told you it has everything.

These blocks also offer a rather unique sight on weekday mornings: A line of taxis, sitting for what seems like forever, making up the city's only sanctioned ride-sharing cab stand. For $6 per passenger the cab will take you on an express route down to Wall Street. Recently a few other ride sharing posts opened, but none have been as successful as this one, which has been around for over 20 years. It's not uncommon to see the cars lined up for two or three blocks down to 77th Street. Likewise you'll see a lot of the drivers out on the street talking  – or as I've seen, fighting.

Comments

[Krystyn]

Wow Paul, these are great. And what a great concept! I've been visiting NYC since I was a teenager, and now I live here, but as you know it's impossible to see everything.

You really capture the feeling of each neighborhood in your images.