Midtown, 55th Street Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues

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This is looking back toward Sixth Avenue. That's the City Center marquee, maybe not the best fit for a neo-Moorish facade.

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Midtown, 55th Street at Sixth Avenue

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And now it's dark, after dinner. Here's a look at the back side of one of Robert Indiana's famous LOVE sculptures.

As for dinner, luckily there was another Chinese restaurant on the same block where I had a nice minimal dinner of shrimp and pea shoots with brown rice plus whiskey sour. I think a whiskey sour is perfect with Chinese food with its bonus of whiskey-soaked fruit for dessert, so satisfyingly retro. I would tell you the name of the restaurant if I could remember it.

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Midtown, 55th Street Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues

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Devoted readers will remember that I started this walk on September 2 with a visit to MOMA. Now, thinking of dinner, I looked for Imperial Dragon, an old-fashioned, faded Cantonese restaurant, never crowded, never rushed. Well, goodby to all that; it seems Imperial Dragon is being replaced by a hamburger joint.

This shot is across the street from the former Imperial Dragon. Notice the former Côte Basque. Psychic shops endure.

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