Photo of the Day: Brookfield Place, Lower Manhattan, NYC

Damaged in the 9/11 attacks, the World Financial Center was reopened after extensive renovations and renamed Brookfield Place in 2014. I visited this massive mixed-use center several years ago, and had the opportunity to go back a week and a half ago. It has added a great deal of upscale stores and eateries to complement its lineup of office tenants. The visitor gathering point I photographed here also offers (outside the picture frame, to the left) a nice view of the Hudson River.

Photo of the Day: Waiting to be Lit

Just before the new year, while down in lower Manhattan in the middle of the afternoon, I took this picture outside Brookfield Place (the former World Financial Center). I was much taken by the pattern of lights, in all their crystalline expectancy, waiting to shine in a few hours.

Photo of the Day: Brookfield Place, NYC

I took this photo of Brookfield Place (formerly known as the World Financial Center) a couple of days before the new year. Approximately $250 million has already been poured into the renovation of these four office buildings, and the complex still has more to show visitors down by the waterfront in Lower Manhattan. 

This spring, a host of new high-end retail and dining tenants will be here. By mid-summer, approximately 635,000 retail square feet (sf) are set to be open, with another 200,000 sf of shops coming by late 2016.

Photo of the Day: Rink, Brookfield Place, NYC

I took this photograph on Monday afternoon not at one of the usual ice-skating rinks in New York—say, at Rockefeller Center, or Trump Rink in Central Park—but rather, at the Rink at Brookfield Place, just south of Tribeca along the Hudson River, in Lower Manhattan.