How much longer will water towers be visible on New York City roofs?
The prevalence of Manhattan gas stations has declined precipitously within my lifetime, too. A stoned walk to Moynihan Station on Marathon Sunday prompted these existential musings.
At least Jesus is staying put.
Everything's a screen nowadays.
But the new, mirrored construction surfaces lack the unbreakable grandeur of 20th century skyscrapers.
I wanted to check out some Amtrak-sponsored video art (how's that for an oxymoron?) in the Train Hall. For less than a minute every quarter hour, advertising yields to art, a meta ratio if ever there was one. When viewed from the balcony, the scratchy black & white animations of Joshua Frankel's "Within the Crowd, There Is a Quality" mimic the activity of the commuters rushing to and fro.
En route to Hudson River Park, I discovered the High Line Moynihan Connector which opened in June. Now you can walk from the station to the Whitney Museum of Art entirely above street level. It's pretty fabulous.
New Jersey commuters benefit from the development effect of the High Line, too, with a two-sided art billboard facing both the entrance and exit to the Lincoln Tunnel.
It looks as if Hudson Yards is finished, finally. You really do get the sense you are in a city of the future, not New York.
Except when you look down.
Tennis anyone? Or pickle ball? I can't tell.
I'd only seen "Old Tree" by Pamela Rosencranz from a distance before.
Apparently the Vessel has become the back-drop for outdoor entertainment. Boo!
At this hour, mirrored construction panels on the Javits Center really do add something to a blah building.
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