Spent today in NYC, around New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, (now known as New York Hospital and Weill Medical College, thanks to the Citigroup genius Sandy Weill Or is it properly New York Presbyterian Hospital - now that Presbyterian and NYH merged?). It was cold as hell.
That's Sotheby's building in front with the flags, and New York Hospital beginning just to the right of it.

A couple more below the fold -
The East River, looking downtown towards the 59th St. Bridge, with Roosevelt Island on the left, Hospital for Special Surgery on the right:

I always get a kick out of the c. 1870-1900 buildings squeezed between modern buildings. It's a reminder of what the entire street scene was like in 1900 - and in 1950.

Just a random corner, 71st and 2nd Ave.
