An Excursion to the Mysterious East Side

I  rarely venture much above 23rd Street,

so this part of New York seems almost a different country

full of very important people doing business type things.

The architecture is mid last-century and reminds me, oddly, of Ayn Rand.

In the forties 

they take skyscrapers very seriously indeed.

Even the Chrysler building looks odd.

ps. I just gobbled up my copy of Tess Kincaid's Patina, a collection of her vivid and touching poems which arrived from Amazon on Monday.I'm proud to say have been blog friends (and out of blog) friends with Willow for five years now. This is a super collection. My favorite is Blue Plate Special. Highly recommended

Up High

My friend M. lives on the 48th floor of a very tall building with amazing views.

Her sitting room has curved windows...

...from which you can see almost the whole of Manhattan, both rivers and across into New Jersey and Long Island. Here is the Chrysler Building.

Here we look down onto the entrance to the Midtown Tunnel. How well I know the poster on the upper right. (It is for British Airways.)

Both of the towers are lit up at night but we see them from the other side.

How dramatic are the tall towers.