Unpacking from New York. Pictures.
Mar. 28th, 2025 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWhen I got home from a quickie trip to New York City earlier this week I remarked that I was too tired to unpack. Well, now I've unpacked. ...Haha, no, it didn't take 3 days to unpack my suitcase. I did that Wednesday morning (after arriving home, exhausted, Tuesday night). But it's taken me until now to mentally unpack from the trip. As part of that I've pushed a few photos from NYC through my pipeline to share.
The hotel my colleagues I stayed in was reasonable for NYC. My room at the 70 Park Ave (photo above) was reasonably sized and comfortably furnished. Oh, and the view out the window was actually a view— across Park Avenue instead of the prison yard-like view out my window last time I stayed in Midtown (at a different hotel). And the 70 Park hotel had a very affordable rate.
At 70 Park we're just a few short blocks south of Grand Central Terminal. My company's virtual office— which is actually its law firm's real office 😅— is just two blocks away, closer to Grand Central. The weather Monday morning as I walked to work was gray and drizzly. It was also cold, though thankfully not as cold as Sunday night.
Up on the 45th floor there are great views from the office. The niceness is blunted by the crummy weather. It's interesting, though, to see Midtown's skyscrapers disappear into the clouds. It's like, when you scrape the sky, sometimes the sky scrapes back.
Our Monday evening piss-up was at the Monarch rooftop bar in Midtown. With the cool and rainy weather there was a pavilion tent covering most of the roof area so it was hard to appreciate the views. Plus, some of my colleagues spent far more time looking through their cocktail glasses than anything else. 😂 "You know we're right next to the Empire State Building?" I asked them as I showed this selfie I took. Then they all ran outside for selfies, too. 🤣
BTW, what's that drink in my hand? It's a Manhattan, of course!
Tuesday's weather in NYC was sunny. Here's a photo from the 45th floor looking south across Midtown. You can see the Empire State Building in the middle.
The hotel my colleagues I stayed in was reasonable for NYC. My room at the 70 Park Ave (photo above) was reasonably sized and comfortably furnished. Oh, and the view out the window was actually a view— across Park Avenue instead of the prison yard-like view out my window last time I stayed in Midtown (at a different hotel). And the 70 Park hotel had a very affordable rate.
At 70 Park we're just a few short blocks south of Grand Central Terminal. My company's virtual office— which is actually its law firm's real office 😅— is just two blocks away, closer to Grand Central. The weather Monday morning as I walked to work was gray and drizzly. It was also cold, though thankfully not as cold as Sunday night.
Up on the 45th floor there are great views from the office. The niceness is blunted by the crummy weather. It's interesting, though, to see Midtown's skyscrapers disappear into the clouds. It's like, when you scrape the sky, sometimes the sky scrapes back.
Our Monday evening piss-up was at the Monarch rooftop bar in Midtown. With the cool and rainy weather there was a pavilion tent covering most of the roof area so it was hard to appreciate the views. Plus, some of my colleagues spent far more time looking through their cocktail glasses than anything else. 😂 "You know we're right next to the Empire State Building?" I asked them as I showed this selfie I took. Then they all ran outside for selfies, too. 🤣
BTW, what's that drink in my hand? It's a Manhattan, of course!
Tuesday's weather in NYC was sunny. Here's a photo from the 45th floor looking south across Midtown. You can see the Empire State Building in the middle.
