In October 2022, published two articles centered on my photographs of the Manhattan skyline shrouded in fog. In Freedom Tower in the Fog From the Brooklyn Bridge, I shared four photographs of the encroaching fog as seen from the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge on the morning of September 12, 2022. Powder Blue Tugboat and the Manhattan Skyline featured a similarly foggy photo taken from Brooklyn Bridge Park on October 5, 2022. On a rainy May 4, 2025 evening in Brooklyn Heights, I noticed that the Manhattan Skyline was once again shrouded in fog. I stopped to take several photos from the Fruit Street Sitting Area, which is just off Columbia Heights street between the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and a long hill descending into DUMBO (see where I took the photos on OpenStreetMap).
The two photos I selected for publication were taken two minutes apart, with the first being shot at 7:34 P.M. and the second at 7:36. You can see the clouds shift a bit in the two photos, with the Freedom Tower (the tallest building off to the right) being more obscured in the first photo than the second. In the bottom right of the second photo you can see a small bridge which winds down from Squibb Park (not in the photo) to Brooklyn Bridge Park.
(Aside: There was a much heavier fog covering the Manhattan Skyline just two days later on May 6.)
May 4, 2025, was a good day for my photo-journalism. Just over six hours earlier, I documented for New Leaf Journal publication a BLOB DYLAN tag and a dry Christmas tree in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
