More scenes from assorted projects, errands, adventures, pilgrimages...
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| We've always wondered how you sell cars in a hyper-densely populated place like NYC, where display space is so limited and so costly... |
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| So here we are, on the roof of Toyota of Manhattan, 49th St. or so, the Hell's Kitchen area, looking over to the mid-town area...the many floors below are given to other show-rooms, sales areas, service, and so on; I think these are mostly the used cars, trade-ins, etc. |
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| Awaiting service... |
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| Looking the other way is the Hudson River, New Jersey, the WWII veteran aircraft carrier Intrepid (now a museum) and submarine #577; though the Intrepid saw some action in the War, it got hit a lot and mostly was back in the States getting repaired; converted to an "attack" carrier after the jet age; my interest in naval aviation ends with the conversion to jet fuel (and nuclear), so we'll pass on these two (and their many non-WWII aircraft) |
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| Moving right along...we are now walking down 11th Avenue toward the Hudson Yards development |
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| Thus...so beautiful...not! |
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Muralist in action...click to enlarge and you'll see him/her in a white helmet; which leads me to wonder whether Michaelangelo wore a helmet...was it white? |
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Some of the enormous Jacob Javits NYC convention center...goes on for blocks, but not presently convened |
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| We have yet to see any Amazon trucks here on the streets of New York; mostly one sees guys [sic] with handcarts or hand-pulled wagons, delivering from building to building, many per street, the larger distribution to them carried out by rental trucks...fascinating... |
Variation on the same theme
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| Charles Ray's Adam and Eve; where's the talking snake? I ask; and the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil? |
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| In the Moynihan Train Station/Penn Station |
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| Sympaticos... |
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Walking in Riverside Park, a few days later, en route to Grant's Tomb (next post); the building is called "the Coliseum" |
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| More innerestin' buildings near the Columbia U campus (currently closed to the public...recent demonstrations concerning the current Gaza war) |
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The Tower of Riverside Church, the liberal Christian bastion of Harry Emerson Fosdick, built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
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| Two Towers, Union Theological Seminary and Riverside... |
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| Gothic garage doors |
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| "A funny thing happened on the way to the Ascension..." |
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| Famous churches gotta' have gift shoppes |
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| More of UTS |
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| Spotted lanternfly...invader from Asia...very bad for agriculture; might be useful for fishing |
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| Inside Hex and Company, Manhattan's largest board game cafe |
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| Main entrance, tympanum, to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; said to be the world's largest Gothic, 6th largest of any type of church; very late 19th century; lots of steel girders and beams, one supposes; Episcopal |
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| Has not stood the test of time; check back in 6-8 centuries... |
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| The humongous dome over the crossing (?) is totally weird and un-Gothic |
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| The usual imitation trappings |
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| Knave view...bathed in the weirdest of lavender...they want $15p/p to go in past the gift shoppe to walk around |
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| Closer up |
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| We headed for the exit |
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| Somewhat interesting sculpture in the carpark park |
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| A Manhattan thing? |
