This afternoon, a Gossips reader walking by the building noticed a new development: silver spheres positioned on the lawn. Finding them interesting, he decided to take this picture.
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
What's Happening at 400 State Street?
Since the end of October, the facade of 400 State has been illuminated at night. Last week, for the holidays and presumably in preparation for Winter Walk, little lights resembling candles appeared in all the windows. The effect, for anyone driving north on Fourth Street after dark or passing the building on foot, is quite pleasing.
This afternoon, a Gossips reader walking by the building noticed a new development: silver spheres positioned on the lawn. Finding them interesting, he decided to take this picture.
The appearance of the spheres is curious, but what is curiouser is that someone came out of the building as he was taking the picture, declared that taking pictures of these objects which had been placed outside, in the public view, was not allowed, and threatened to call the police.
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This afternoon, a Gossips reader walking by the building noticed a new development: silver spheres positioned on the lawn. Finding them interesting, he decided to take this picture.
COPYRIGHT 2016 CAROLE OSTERINK
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Is it Trumps Hudson Villa ?
ReplyDeleteIn the 1990s I was painting a landscape on Long Island when someone approached me from a house (for landscape painters, a dreaded scenario in any event).
ReplyDeleteI was told that the structure they'd emerged from was a copyrighted image, and that I was not permitted to include it in my painting.
My favorite cartoon by Koren shows a shaggy-looking beautiful landscape, but with a small sign in front, "No Sketching."
They do all these things, then they're like "What are you looking at? Don't look at me. Stop looking."
ReplyDeleteWhy is everything about Galloway and his various holdings so shrouded and secretive? Threatening to call the police is laughable: if you can see it from the street, it's legal to take its picture. At least through Inauguration Day.
ReplyDeleteStop giving this man a pass because he is black.
ReplyDeleteIf the person taking the picture was not trespassing, it's not illegal to take a picture of an external setting. (Given the quirky fact that the sidewalk is the property of the landowner in Hudson, if the photographer is standing on the sidewalk trespassing could occur).
Being responsible for and owning are two different situations..
DeleteSo with that bit of news I can defend my property from all these people walking on MY sidewalk on Warren Street "lock & load"
ReplyDeleteThis scene is crying out for a flash mob of folks with cameras.
ReplyDeleteHa! I agree. Sadly, the silver spheres disappeared later the same night they mysteriously appeared.
DeleteA very interesting part of the law: you don't own the sidewalks, but you're responsible for their upkeep -- and snow removal. So standing on a sidewalk to take a picture is not trespassing. --pm
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