Daniel Macy

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Airborne. Photo by Daniel Macy

For the pilot and passengers, the busy streets of Los Angeles fall away as their commuter jet takes off from LAX.

I get my camera ready if I ever find myself in traffic on Sepulveda Blvd. as it tunnels under Los Angeles International Airport's Runway 25 Right.

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New Manhattan. Photo by Daniel Macy

The Manhattan skyline from Queens, N.Y., might be unrecognizable to anyone who hasn't been there for several years.

In the last five to 10 years numerous "beanstalk" skyscrapers have sprouted in Manhattan. Love them or hate them, they have transformed the city's visual character from afar. Whether they will affect the character of life in the city itself remains to be seen, but many have already come to their own conclusions, including this photographer.

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The Streets Were Crowded. Photo by Daniel Macy

Fifth Avenue looking south from a skyscraper on 55th Street.

Such a scene seems unimaginable today. This photograph was taken Jan. 26, 2018.

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The Mighty Postal Service. Photo by Daniel Macy

The George W. Young Post Office, Detroit's main mail facility.

The mammoth post office on Fort Street, just west of Downtown Detroit, still operational and still a monument to an unparalleled system for getting letters and packages to and from every address in the United States. The USPS is under attack by the Donald J. Trump administration as the United States heads into an unprecedented election in which a record number of voters are expected to use the mail to vote because of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump said he believes he will lose the election if a surge in mail-in voting occurs, and threatened to cut off funding.

Daniel J. Macy is a Washington-based freelance reporter. He currently is on assignment as assistant to the Public Editor at PBS.

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