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Better Than Real Because It's Not.
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The original plan, as usual, was to go to the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, but as usual, that wasn’t to be. Wednesday morning involved wrapping up a nearly sleepless mess that began Sunday. The best I could do, was follow-through on plans to photograph a lit Empire State Building at dawn. Normally the ESB lights are turned off at midnight, but for Young Frankenstein on Broadway, it was left on overnight.
At long last, my nightmare was over.
Frau Blücher would approve. (cue whinny)
The first sign of dawn was just before 6:45am.
The clouds clung to the darkness
Downtown sparkled in the sunrise
Facing midtown, it was still pretty dark
Rising by the Manhattan Bridge
The colors were striking
Another letter to someone. I see a lot of those here.
The sun continued to push its way up.
The light chased the darkness from the clouds.
In the west, you could barely see the orange lights anymore.
Although the sun itself was yet to be visible from the bridge, it was time to go.
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I needed to go to a client’s office down by City Hall. On a whim, I decided to walk back to Brooklyn.
Developing feelings for the bridge will get you a ticket.
I discovered Osama bin Laden hiding on the bridge in plain sight.
High St. was somewhere under there… somewhere.
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Last night, because I’m sick of being sick, I decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Out of towners might be surprised to learn this is Brooklyn
That’s the Statue of Liberty out there in the harbor
The Empire State Building in yellow and the Chrysler Building
A lazy Sunday evening downtown Manhattan
The end of the journey
Nights like this, I wish I had a better camera.
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Since my last post here, I lost all my photos, except those on this site to a hard drive failure.
In December, I went into Manhattan with Pete and his cousin Maria, to see the store displays, and have dinner at Bice.
Pedro and Maria
That’s a lot of candy.
Then in January we went to Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, followed by dinner at Novecento.
The most pretentious McDonald’s I’ve ever seen. The food is still McDonald’s.
None of them is real.
Finally, in February I went to see Sleepwalkers.
Edit: I forgot about the McDonald’s downtown with the piano player, which I saw once back in the 80’s, so the jury’s still out on the most pretentious McDonald’s in the city, (or that I’ve ever seen).
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Manhunt, West Village.
June 2.
Walking through Chinatown.
Lin Ze Xu.
Confucius.
In Chinatown, even the Golden Arches are labeled in Chinese.
Slipping out of Chinatown into Little Italy,
I wandered past two of these. Scary.
What is this, a drunken pixie?
Walking to Washington Square Park,
I took an obligatory photo of the arch.
I notice it says The World War.
The fountain at Washington Sq. Park.
The Empire State Building, lit up.
And finally, back down to Penn Station to catch a train home.
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