There’s so much wrong with this picture. The sun is setting on the bottom half and the top is over-exposed. On the other hand, there’s that quirky apartment building with all the balconies and the Empire State Building. Hard to see and looking like a pillar of marble, it’s still the star of the photo.
On the 11th and 12th days of Christmas, there was skating in Bryant Park. Admission is free, but you have to pay for skate rental and put up with Citibank’s ubiquitous logo and colors on nearly every blank space. (The Christmas tree is blue for a reason.)
Sometimes you’ve got to to to the other side of the river. New Year’s Eve is one of those occasions. The perfectly abbreviated fireworks show that begins at midnight sharp is a fine way to bring in a New Year. It’s not crowded, everyone’s in a good mood, and the cops don’t harass you for passing around the bubbly.
The giant Christmas balls are back in front of 1251 Avenue of the Americas. It may be predictable, but they look good here. A year or two they were on Rockefeller Plaza near where Ruhlmann’s is, but this infinitely better.
This over-sized, precious tree is on one side of the glass and we are on the other to admire its size and decorations. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have a piney smell, so we aren’t missing that.
I am trying to take a break from holiday stuff, though I do find it visually compelling. If you look closely you’re sure to find some bell-ringers.
You were waiting for this, weren’t you? This year’s picture of the snowflakes at the Time Warner Center has a mini Cape Canaveral scaffolding in the background. They are leaving up Tatzu Nishi’s “Discovering Columbus” set-up until January so that the Columbus sculpture can be conserved. (The exhibition closed last weekend.)
Radio City only has one holiday during the year, and it lasts for two months. The Christmas tree of lights has been up since the beginning of November. The Rockettes turn 85 this year; that’s part of the celebration.
One World Trade is lit up, there’s some traffic, and some Con Ed activity, and that’s about it. The picture is unreal. The outages are so widespread, restoring power is taking a long time. Maybe by this weekend most of Manhattan will have electricity again, that’s the last I heard.
NY1 said there were sheep in Bryant Park, so I went to have a look; this is what I found. A park employee told me the disappointing news: yes, there were sheep, but only for one day, Thursday. It was an exhibit sponsored by the British government about the benefits of sheep eating grass. Quickly.
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