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Thursday, January 14. 2016

Midtown


Spending a few days at meetings in midtown Manhattan. Readers know that this ol' country boy does love NYC for a regular dose of the Big Time.


Details: Park Ave.  Note the line for Grizzly's food truck on the left. Smells great. Flags are St. Barnabas. Next, on left, Waldorf-Astoria (now owned by the Chinese). Other buildings are mostly banks. All day and all night, streets filled with people bundled against the cold, cars zooming, limos waiting. Vitality. Attractive, put-together people. Great fun just to amble around and check things out.







Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 18:58 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I feel the same way but don't get there nearly as often as I used to. I remember when that MetLife sign used to say Pan Am.
#1 Ted Bopp on 2016-01-15 12:04 (Reply)
Seeing the MefLife - formerly the Pan Am- Building atop Grand Central Station reminds me of the story my commuter uncle told me. One time, while entering Grand Central for the commute back home, he saw LBJ and RFK in a limo. LBJ was giving RFK some sort of dressing down- shaking his finger in RFK's face. Those two definitely didn't like each other.
#2 Gringo on 2016-01-15 12:56 (Reply)
Back in the day I flew on a helicopter to JFK from the top of the PanAm Building. I worked in the building directly across from the Waldorf so it was super-convenient and fast, about 10 minutes to JFK as I recall.

Unfortunately one day a blade broke off from a chopper and killed a pedestrian and that was the end of a great service.
#3 James Graham on 2016-01-16 13:46 (Reply)
See: Jacobs, Jane
#4 BlackDog on 2016-01-17 17:28 (Reply)

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