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More on city streets
May. 24th, 2006 03:48 pmAnother beautiful day that was relatively slow for my department. Took another 15 minute walk.
I'm always impressed both by the architecture in this city and by how little most people seem to pay attention to it. There's the glorious St. Bart's cathedral, which looks like something from Constantinople. (And apparently has its own cafe, a fact of which I was unaware until today.) Not far away is the Waldorf-Astoria, with the shiny chrome Art Deco flourishes. A block down is UBS, a polished black granite monolith.
Park Avenue has an impressive set of pansies (although pansies in general have been gorgeous this year). The random wells in front of one building that were full of Christmas trees the last time I saw them (during the subway strike) are actually fountains. This explains the shape, which baffled me slightly at the time. And I passed a store selling imports from Asia that included amazingly detailed wood carvings of castles and ships and dragons.
I'm always impressed both by the architecture in this city and by how little most people seem to pay attention to it. There's the glorious St. Bart's cathedral, which looks like something from Constantinople. (And apparently has its own cafe, a fact of which I was unaware until today.) Not far away is the Waldorf-Astoria, with the shiny chrome Art Deco flourishes. A block down is UBS, a polished black granite monolith.
Park Avenue has an impressive set of pansies (although pansies in general have been gorgeous this year). The random wells in front of one building that were full of Christmas trees the last time I saw them (during the subway strike) are actually fountains. This explains the shape, which baffled me slightly at the time. And I passed a store selling imports from Asia that included amazingly detailed wood carvings of castles and ships and dragons.
