The Wilmington St sidewalk is completely open as of this morning. No barricades or lane closure either.
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Fantastic. I donât know why, but I love the new path (stairs) down from Fayetteville To Wilmington. Itâs a connection we didnât have before. I kind of wish the stairs had one of those ramps for walking a bike and up and down though but weâre not there yet. 
Only thing left for this topic is to see what pops up in the retail space facing B Good. (probably going into the retail/restaurant thread)
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Yes I actually walked up those stairs for the first time this morning. Very nice and leading up to the new plaza area (old skating rink) it is a very nice open area. Great place to eat at once you get your food at one of the kiosks and sit in the shade during the hotter months.
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The FNC bank is also open now (bank employee chased me down and warned me not to take any more pictures. Rolled my eyes and kept walking)
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Itâs a security issue. People taking pictures in banks are typically thought as possible scouting.
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If you are on a public sidewalk, taking photos should not be an issue.
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They definitely did not like it when I took the one of the inside the new FNC bank teller lobby. And I was on the sidewalk. I guess I looked kind of shady.
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It certainly does but sidewalk is public land. When you stand on it, you have the right to photograph anything from there. If they donât like it, they can put up a wall or something to block it.
Kind of a small passion of mine, photographerâs rights on public land, which I am almost certain holds for public sidewalks. I certainly donât know the weeds of the law around it so hopefully no one will take it to the extreme.
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Thereâs probably a grey area there in the law when it comes to taking photos from public property into private property. For example, if you take photos from a sidewalk into someoneâs home, how is that really any different from being a peeping tom? There probably are limits to those rights.
Yikes⌠thatâs a lot of materials nearly in plane with each other.
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Yet somehow itâs more pleasing than the âcacophonyâ of materials at One Glenwood.
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Thereâs no gray area here. The 1st Amendment makes all of us members of the press (and no press credentials are needed, as thereâs no real such thing) according to the US Supreme Court, and anyone can record anything they can see from a public place. âYou canât trespass the eyesâ is the saying.
You donât need anyoneâs consent to record them in public (thereâs no expectation of privacy in youâre in public). You can record anything you can see in public, including any govt building, Federal or not.
Check out âFirst Amendment Audit videosâ on YouTube. Thereâs billions of them. Iâve watched at least a thousand of them, so Iâm an expert! haha
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A Masters in YouTube? lol
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Warning â Do not believe everything or even most of what you see on YouTube !!!
The no expectation of privacy is when the subject being recorded is in public. I can not take a picture through a window of a private house just because Iâm standing on a public street. The reverse of that is if you are in public (on street or other public place) I can take picture looking out my window. But again can not take picture from my house of neighbor sunbathing nude in her backyard. The whole public/private thing is a non issue if you have permission to take the pictures.
There seems to be a gray area if they are nude in front yard. Then itâs kind of like recording someone breaking a law which a reasonable person would think is ok, but kids playing in front yard would be off-limits. Itâs a case of would a reasonable person expect to have privacy. Then the whole public/private thing is a non issue if you have permission or implied permission to take the pictures, such as grandparents taking pictures of grand kids.
My âexpertâ source is classes in constitutional law. But that was a while back like 50years, so some details may be wrong, but the constitutional law does not change (accept when Supreme Court reinterprets it)
There there is also the issue of do the enforcers of the law think itâs worth time to prosecute.
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I canât imagine that taking a picture of something visible from the public ROW is against the law. There may be issues with what you do with the photos, but taking the photos shouldnât be a problem.
I think in rural areas you can actually hunt across property lines as long as itâs not Posted. Imagine being able to shoot a gun onto an adjacent property, but not being able to take a picture.
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Anyone see the red/white/blue changing lights that illuminate the FNB crown? (Sorry if this has been postedâjust saw this evening).
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Hereâs an interesting view of the âCapital Corridorâ, with the FNB tower adding to the dense lineup.
Credit: snag from a YouTube aerial video. (as always, click for mega larger)
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The Archdale building (or whatever govât one that is) look much better from this perspective!
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Super Shot ! Thanks Ken !
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Are people moving into the FNB (Faye 501) apartments yet?
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