I was out in midtown Manhattan earlier this evening and I saw an interesting guy crossing 2nd Avenue at 53rd street. Normally you don't see anything out of the ordinary in this neighborhood, but when you see someone dressed in 8" silver boots and a full length fur coat and feathers it makes you stop and stare. Of course, this being NYC, no one really stops to give this much of a second thought. It's as if nothing was all that unusual about this sort of look. I stopped and waited for him to come out of Walgreen's. I was actually wondering what he purchased,
I've never ever had chestnuts on the street before, but they are available at all of the hot dog and pretzel carts in Midtown.
Everyone in NYC seems to love it when lunch gets delivered. I prefer to get out of the office. At any rate, here's a typical delivery of about 20 lunch bags en route to some midtown Manhattan office tower. Looks like it's going to be sushi for lunch.
Typical New York sentiment seen on 53rd Street. Is it like this in the rest of the country?
It should be, but it never is.
I've been taking advantage of my membership to the Museum of Modern Art recently. They have a lot of excellent events and if you're a member most of them are free to attend. 
A well-designed sign that is sure to prevent smoking. 
I got a couple of errands done late this afternoon. You could probably say I was running some errands, but I wasn't exactly running since I rode my bike. I picked up my lamp which was getting repaired (It was my third trip way over to the nearly pedestrian free 11th Avenue. I'm happy to report it works like new. More on that later.) and I also made a quick trip to the super efficient post office on 52nd Street. I think mail is great to send and receive. No one sends it much anymore.
This is a totally crazy bike that you crank pedal with your hands. Rider in the back basket is totally optional. Definitely a unique way to get around in Manhattan.
Brasserie is a French restaurant in the Seagram Building off Park Avenue. It's been around for a long time (since 1959?) and the food is generally excellent. It's a place I like to go for lunch or a weekend brunch which I don't do all that often, but when I do it has never disappointed. Many eons ago it used to be open all night long, but in its newest incarnation it closes at a regular hour (regular for New York is 12 or 1am). I realize that things shut down in other cities at around 10 or 11pm so this is still on the late side if you're from Texas, but I kinda wish places like this were open all night long. They serve French onion soup day and night that is all right by me. If you go here, definitely try to get a booth. The semi-private booths are the way to go.
Various angles of one of the more futuristic looking buildings in Midtown. Though I guess that since it's been around for over 25 years it's not so modern. Late 20th century modern perhaps. In case you didn't know, the building in front is the Citicorp Center. It's 59 stories and is 915 feet tall. This midtown landmark building has 1.3 million square feet of office space where Citicorp desperately tries not to lose all your money. The top of the building has a distinctive triangle shape and was designed to be a massive solar panel, but that never happened. 
