Black and white streets

We had three days of awful weather last week which confined me indoors and as well as trying to sort out my computer woes I did some serious cleaning out of my photo files. Whilst doing this I had a look at some photos I took in the US last year and decided that they would be good candidates for conversion to black and white.
I rarely do black and white nowadays as I much prefer colour but these rather gritty photos make a contrast to all the colourful,happy local and Indian photos I have put up on the blog recently.
I'm not claiming that they are anything profound-just different. All taken with the ideal camera for keeping a low profile-the X1- and converted into black and white using SilverEFX.