Midtown, Broadway at 59th Street

Mary Sargent © 2010 ………………….…………… ………………….. click to enlarge

Here's the Time Warner Building seen in its entirety for the first time in this blog.  It has appeared in previous posts in supporting roles.

I love this photo for its look of unreality.  I feel like I'm a player on the board game, Candyland.  Notice the two-dimensionality of the left tower.  You may want to check the previous posts to reassure yourself that it is indeed a real tower.

Columbus Circle, Eighth Avenue at 58th Street

Mary Sargent © 2007 …………………………………….. click to enlarge


Why is it that New Yorkers never take these carriages? That's a rhetorical question; we all know it's because only tourists take them. I think I'm going to take one. Right after I take a pedicab.

There's currently renewed controversy about allowing horses to do this in New York, since a few weeks ago a mare got spooked by loud music and crashed her carriage into a tree, injuring herself and dying from shock. Here's a link to the sad story, along with other accusations about bad working conditions for horses.

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Columbus Circle, 58th Street at Eighth Avenue

Mary Sargent © 2007 ……….. click to enlarge

Okay, a long, straight walk, though not as long as I had planned. Yesterday I had well over an hour between therapy and a doctor's appointment on the East side, so I thought I had plenty of time to walk 58th Street from Columbus Circle to the East River. One would think. But no. I guess my walking really, really slows down when I'm photographing. As Marty says in his Brooklyn accent, you're walking so slow, you're going backwards!

I only made it to Park Avenue.

Here at the beginning is a view of the wonderful Time Warner Building. We saw the back of it in October 2006.

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Columbus Circle, 59th Street at Tenth Avenue, Looking East

Mary Sargent © 2006 . .click to enlarge

The last photograph from September 16. We are definitely out of the streets of neglect now. This is the Time Warner building at Columbus Circle. Don't you love this building and how it seems to disappear into the sky?