“A City a story” photo weekly contest #49 STAIR...NYC/"ひとつの街にひとつの物語”#49 階段...ニューヨーク

in #citystory6 years ago (edited)

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Hi everyone/皆さんこんにちは


I'm @yo-yo from Japan, I love travel and am interested in architecture and folklore. I'd like to participate in a cool photo contest of "A City a story" by @aaronli from HK. This post is also trying to nominate a project of "1001 Places To Remember" by @archisteem. If you are interested in these contests, you can check them from the link of the bottom of this article. Thank you!

今回も香港コミュニティの@aaronliさん主催の「ひとつの街にひとつの物語」写真コンテストと、同時に@archisteemさんの「覚えておきたい1001の場所」プロジェクトへ参加するための記事を書きたいと思います。もしこれらのコンテストに興味がある方がいらっしゃいましたら、この記事の下の方のリンクから参加方法の詳細を確認頂けますので良かったらご覧ください^^


The theme this time is "stairs", so I'd like to share for everyone some photos of Queens NYC where we can see so many high buildings with stairs outside of the wall.

今回のコンテストのテーマは「階段」なので、ニューヨークのクイーンズ区で多く見かけた外階段付きのアパートのことを書いてみたいと思います。


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Queens is located on the east part of NYC where we can see some high old buildings like this photo.

ニューヨークの東に位置するクィーンズ地区では、このような高層アパートが立ち並ぶ地域がよく見られます。


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All most every buildings has this kind of stairs on the outside of the wall. There's general stairs and elevators inside too, so these stairs are for emergency situations I guess.

そしてこれらの全てのビルには外階段が備えられています。室内には手すり階段、それからエレベーターも備えられていますので非常階段ですね。


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The apartment I stayed was built in 1939. The elevator was very classic like this.

私が滞在していたアパートは1939年築とのことでした。ちなみにこちらがエレベーター。この扉が開いた後に中の扉が開くという、とてもクラシックなものでした。


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The view from our room is like this.

部屋の中から外を見るとこんな感じです。


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The window to go out was quite small

外へ出る窓は意外と小さいです


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And the space was also small so was super scared😱

そして立つ場所は思った以上に小さくて足がすくみます^^;


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I couldn't stay standing while taking photos toward stairs below

下を見るのには立っていられず座って撮影


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This is quite steep

なかなかの急勾配です


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I was satisfied with small shooting so I went back in the room from small window again

こうして少し撮影しただけでけっこう満足したのでまた小さな窓から中へ戻ります


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Flight to or from JFK I guess...

たぶんJFK空港からの飛行機か、または向かう飛行機か…



Have you ever watched a movie withAudrey Hepburn, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in 1961? The apartment in that movie is still at Manhattan since that time, but I feel like probably a little similar building with stairs like this... This is lovely movie and I like the scene of her singing "Moon river" at stairs so I really enjoyed the moment with stairs while staying this City... Thank you very much for reading :-)

皆さんはヘップバーンの「ティファニーで朝食を(1961年)」の映画を見られたことがありますか? あの撮影はマンハッタンで行われたそうですが、彼女が「Moon River」を歌ったり上の階に避難?するのに使っていたのはきっとこんな階段だったんでしょうね。あの映画が少し身近に感じられるような気がしてNY滞在中はこの階段やその雰囲気を楽しんでいました。読んで戴いてありがとうございました^^

all photos are @yo-yo's original work with Canon 6D

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You can check this contest from here → by @aaronli

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You can also check this project from here by @archisteem

🌿参加したいけどルールや方法が解らないという方は、お手伝いさせて戴きます🌿

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Dear @yo-yo,

Thank you for the submission for our project – 1001 Places to Remember. Let us go through the content and will make an announcement soon for the posts which will be winning the rewards as well as qualify for the publication.

Stay tuned and Steem on!

Sincerely from,

@archisteem and team

Wow, what a scary situation. I wonder if that's even a safe emergency exit. It doesn't look like it.

Nice article and photos, @yo-yo.

thanks @trincowski! yeah, I thought it was fine but wasn't😱
No, I don't think it's safe enough for emargency^^;;
thanks again for your visiting n leaving comment!

You're welcome @yo-yo.

I tried a bit of Japanese learning on Duolingo, while I was in Tokyo. I gave up after a few weeks. It's way too complicated... specially when I'm already learning Russian. I decided to focus just on Russian. Better learn one thing well than trying to learn two and failing both. :-)

I hope you post in English more often but if you don't, I perfectly understand.

Hi dear! Wow so you stayed in Tokyo quite long time? Yeah...I totally understand about language stuff, especially Japanese. Grammar is very different than English or Portuguese or... other languages. But how many languages do you speak😂? I guess 3-5... I once attended a german class when I was in Berlin, but I totally couldn't understand "what's the question" so I tried to study hard but quit it... just after 2 weeks...^^; I speak a little Spanish means a bit understand Italian too, but well... it's enough only with English and Japanese. haha...
And yeah, I think I need to write article more in English, but as you know it takes time to write it... but I'll do that for getting more attractive from world steemians. Arigato! @trincowski ^^

No, just for a few days. Not even a week.

Grammar wasn't my problem, it was the weird-looking characters. I thought to myself "it's gonna take me a week to memorise each character" and I decided that time would be better spent learning Russian.

I only speak two languages well. Portuguese and English.

I can understand Spanish very well and I speak a little, just enough to get by... I understand some Italian but I can only say a few very basic sentences. Not enough to maintain a conversation, though.

And now I'm learning Russian. I already understand a few sentences, I have no problem in reading the characters, even if I don't know the meaning of the words... and the grammar is proving to be a lot simpler than what I was expecting! Also, there are a lot of words that I can correctly guess, as they're so similar to Portuguese or English.

Obrigado pela resposta, @yo-yo! :-D

weird-looking characters 😆

Sure... it is for you! haha... yeah, I recommend to use Roman letter first to ppl who start studying Jpns... I guess it's easier to remember.
Wow... Russian is also quite tough work to understand... but I noticed that your username seems like a bit Russian name... :-)
Anyway, I'm glad chatting with you here and having more English speaking friends means a lot to me... I mean I get more energy to write in English :)
Obrigado pelo seu comentário aqui!
Have a great weekend dear!

But that would not be learning Japanese. Would it?

You're right about my name. It is a play of words. A mix between a Portuguese term ("trinca-espinhas") and the endings of many Slavic Names.

I adopted it years ago, I wasn't even dreaming about learning Russian by then.

What is cool about Russian is that for us Westerners, the alphabet is not that different. Almost every Russian Character has the equivalent in our Alphabets. 7 of the letters are exactly the same (а, е, о, с, к, м, т), 5 other letters are also in our Alphabets but sound different (у, н, х, в, р) = (u, n, h, v, r) and after that, I only had to learn the others. Most of them are phonetically similar to the remaining letters we know, example: ф = f, и = I, ж =j ... And so on.

With Japanese it's a whole different game, as we can't make such equivalence. As you know.

I am glad I met you, too. Good Portuguese there. 😉

I am already enjoying my weekend since Thursday. Hope you have a good weekend too.

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懐かしい! 私もクィーンズに住んでいた時があります。
あちらのエレベーターってこわいですね。一度だけですが、二階あたりからストーンと落ちたことがあります。下にバネが入っているみたいで、2~3回バウンスしました。こわっ!

あらぁ、そうだったんですね。
はい、多分油圧式?のエレベーターで上る前と止まる前に微妙な間があるんで、いつもハラハラしていました。こんなとこで閉じ込められたら大変(><) ...でも、2階から落ちるって、バウンドするってよっぽどですよ? 無事で良かったですmm

こわかったですぅ

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