This fun book offers a fresh perspective on the familiar sights of New York City. German-born photographer and journalist Puls (now a New York resident) set out to photograph iconic city objects from unusual angles. Could the bronzed foot belong to Peter Stuyvesant? Check Stuyvesant Square. Is that a real rocket outside of the New York Hall of Science? Yes, a Gemini Titan II rocket was donated by NASA to the 1964 World's Fair. Every location visited is free and open to the public. While there are photos from each of the boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island), the majority of the items documented are located in Manhattan. Stunning and captivating in their own right, the photos are unidentified in the main section, so readers can guess the location, and the author urges the reader to make a game of identifying each place. At the end of the book, a separate appendix gives the location and a bit of history of each photo's subject. VERDICT Not a guidebook, this is a small volume of interest to readers who are curious about New York architecture, history, and photography. Both visitors and longtime residents will be challenged to guess the locations of the subjects.
Library Journal (06/15/2014)
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