Turtle Bay, First Avenue at 42nd Street

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This is shot from Tudor City Place looking down on 42nd Street as it ends in ramps leading on and off FDR Drive. And doesn't the East River look lovely today?

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Turtle Bay, First Avenue at 43rd Street

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This photograph of the Secretariat of the United Nations was taken at the end of 43rd Street overlooking First Avenue. Did 43rd Street always overlook First Avenue? I tried to find out, but couldn't. Hard to google it.

I'll have more to say about the United Nations when I walk First Avenue, but for now, just know that the buildings were completed in 1950, that the Secretariat was New York's first glass curtain building and that it was designed by Corbusier.

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Here's the entire building for all you completists out there.

P.S. Tonight I realized I'm in a new neighborhood: Turtle Bay. I'll have more on the neighborhood in the next day or two and I also have to go back and do some relabeling. Work, work, work!

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Midtown East, First Avenue at 36th Street, looking north

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All I know is I gotta go to sleep. Maybe tomorrow. Sleepy.

Midtown East, First Avenue Between 36th and 37th Streets

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I love it when people match their clothes to their surroundings.

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Midtown East, First Avenue Between 35th and 36th Streets

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I began a new walk yesterday at lunch time. Pretty cold and windy, and at times, I shot with my gloves on.

I really don't know what to call this area. It's east of Murray Hill, which has its eastern border at 2nd Avenue. Kips Bay extends to the East river, but ends at 34th Street. Tudor City's southern border is 40th Street. Could this be an area with no name? I considered NoKi (north of Kips Bay, of course), but rejected it because the name is too cute for the area, which is not one bit cute.

I was thinking if you lived there, and people asked you where you lived, you might say the Queens Midtown Tunnel area, so that's what I'm calling it until I hear something better.

This photo is on the east side of First Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets, all fenced in. Waiting for big things to come, or just waiting?

And now I'm coming back from March 12, 2007 to say that I have it all sorted out and this falls in the Midtown East category. Not as interesting, alas.

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Kips Bay, First Avenue at Pedestrian Way (27th Street)

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A cheering sight on this chill autumnal day, the bright green truck that feeds hungry New Yorkers. I keep thinking I should donate to this charity and now I'll take a public vow to do so. There, I just did. And you can, too. For those who don't know, City Harvest collects food from restuarants and other food establishments that would otherwise be discarded and distributes it to people who need it.

I swear, when I took this photo, and when I selected it, I was just looking at colors and shapes.

Kips Bay, First Avenue Between 23rd and 24th Streets

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I just had to tear myself away from 35th Street. Five photographs for one block is a bit indulgent (that's one block, not one street). Probably violates some rule.

So, anyway, this looks like summer, but it was last Tuesday, October 17, and the weather was in the low 60s.