#nyc-lights

[secretly-a-trekkie]

on the run

[joytri]

those were the glorious days

[oatzmeal]

iced coffee runs through my veins during finals week

[escapismsworld]

NYC's Grand Central Terminal, 1929 - before the sun's beams were blocked by surrounding skyscrapers.

These iconic images were taken by photographer Hal Morey.

Bonus Color Photo

[galina]

[shiny-eyed-corvid]

beach finds this week 🐚

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[home-ward]

08.24.2024 [😌]

[futurebird]

The more I learn about light pollution harms insects, the more I want to try to help... do something about it. But I live in NYC. It feels like an impossible ask. A whole city devoted to making the most light pollution possible.

I strongly suspect that we'd see a greater variety of wildlife if we could dim the light a little.

Just using colors like red light can help. So can dark hours and motion sensors. What if one day, as a treat, every New Yorker got to see the milky way?

Most people doing light pollution activism are working in places like national parks & deep in the country, places that are almost dark, where the lights are encroaching especially as the cost of very bright LEDs keeps falling: companies and municipalities say "why not? what's the harm?"

The harm is vast. So many creatures need the night to live. Maybe humans need it too. We do, at least, need those creatures.

I care about insects most. But if you don't consider: no bugs, no song birds.

Is reducing light pollution in a big city a hopeless cause? Is it better to focus on those once perfectly dark places being lit up?

One positive of making light pollution an issue in a big city is how it would raise awareness. Imagine if, in the small hours of the night the lights slowly shifted red. Lights with motion sensors that slowly gutter out. You can see NYC on the horizon glowing like a bomb went off for miles, that glow could dim a bit, give the stars a chance to shine.

[synsick]

Kyotocat ph Sick Syn

[free-my-mindd]

Nyc Sunset 🌆

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Early morning in The Bronx (September 2024).

Also on Instagram.

[joytri]

running around london in 1988

[1lifeinspired]

~ Manhattan Bridge ~

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