New York City: What the Tourists Don't See

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About New York City: What the Tourists Don't See

The one problem with many of the New York City groups is that they often get a lot of the typical tourist shots that are clichéd. You know photos of Times Square, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty or taken from a tour bus or the Circle Line.

If you took the photo of the Brooklyn Bridge on the Circle Line tour, we don't want it!
Now on the other hand you took the photo of the Brooklyn Bridge from the roof of the Municipal Building, then we have something!

We would love to see things like photos of neighborhoods, parks, warehouses, firehouses, police precinct houses, pizzerias, bodegas, abandoned lots, abandoned cars, junkyards, fix-a-flat shops, gross subway stations (like on the G), obscure war memorials, churches, taxi garages, bowling alleys, housing projects, the outer boroughs - well you get the idea. And of course places with limited or no public access.



Now if you have any pictures taken in or from offices in Times Square or Rockefeller Center, that is acceptable, since we don't think many tourists would make it in there.

Examples:
Let's say you take a picture at Grand Central Terminal.

Not Acceptable

Taken from the East Staircase

Acceptable

Taken from the Second Floor West Walkway (don't try this without authorization!)

Acceptable

Taken in an undisclosed secure non-public access area

Let's say you take a picture at 30 Rockefeller Center

Not Acceptable

Taken on 49th Street

Acceptable

Taken in Studio 6B during the 6 pm news

Let's say you take a picture at Trinity Wall Street.

Not Acceptable

Taken from the churchyard

Acceptable

Taken in the belfry at risk of injury or death