The High Life

Much neglected blog!

Anyway, back in New York and hanging out in a part of town I’m not usually in.

A brand new building on 42nd Street called MiMA the venue of a Saatchi art show that Robert was in. Fabulous views over the Hudson to New Jersey - with the Intrepid on the right.

Looking down was rather unnerving. Spot the little church with dwarfed spires nestling in the shadows.

Looking north made the little buildings look like Lego building blocks.

The views at night were extra dramatic - the Intrepid again on the upper right...

and everything twinkly and magical.

One of Robert’s paintings of another, more classic, high rise building!

The last photo taken out of an open window looking directly downwards onto 42nd Street.

I’m still feeling dizzy!

42nd Street

I have been let loose with a new (free) phone app called Instagram. 

This may not be a good thing but fun anyway....

Life on the bus in late rush hour. 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. 

Not a part of town I'm often in.

42nd Street itself --so brash, glitzy and exciting.

Bryant Park behind the library

The Forties

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It was not meant to snow much this morning, but it did.

It turned the ESB into a ghost.

I thought I had better go somewhere different for a change. 

So I took a bus in the storm to the theater district (via 42nd Street)

to discover new and exciting worlds.

I discovered that there were very few people in Times Square.

And that there is an entire shop devoted to things M&M.

I discovered that there was a very cool dude (sort of lounge lizard)

lodged right next door to King Tut.

Unbelievably huge prize* to the first person who tells me who this is

seen here wearing an acrylic hat almost certainly not made in New York.

Robert thought EAP (Edgar Allen Poe)

but I said he was wearing a civil war uniform, so....

The irreverent part of me thinks this poster should read:

SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE RESPIRATOR.

So that was a foray outside my usual territiory.

*to be determined....

For a wonderful selection of modern bar stools go here