{"id":3720,"date":"2013-09-28T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2013-09-29T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T18:26:12","slug":"manhattan-on-2-or-3-different-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan &#8212; On 2 or 3 Different Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get to New York City much anymore, despite living only 14 miles from it.  But today I took a train into the big city to attend the wedding of a former work associate who I have occasionally stayed in touch with over the years. On the way home, I took a look at the streets and blocks in  mid-town that I once did frequent &#8212; because I once worked there.  Back in the mid-to-late 1980s I worked at Penn Plaza near Madison Square Garden and Penn Station.  The PP1 complex spanned the ground between 33rd and 34th Streets, and thus I took a few shots there just before scampering down to my train home for sweet New Jersey.  <\/p>\n<p>First up is a human-scale shot, New York from street level and people level. Mid-town Manhattan is an incredibly dense amalgamation of humankind on a pleasant Saturday afternoon, and West 33rd Street is doing its part here to host the hordes who find one reason or another to be in the big town.  To be honest, it really does make the less crowded suburbs of Jersey seem a bit sweeter!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/manh33_1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>In the <strong>next shot<\/strong>, you see <!--more-->good old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Penn_Plaza\">Penn Plaza One<\/a> (I actually had a window view of uptown from my desk on the 51st floor).  Penn Plaza is on a very different scale than the first shot.  The PP1 building is dark, angular, cold-looking, overwhelming &#8212; a left-over from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brutalist_architecture\">brutalist architectural movement<\/a> of the 1960s.  I used to call it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monolith_%28Space_Odyssey%29\">the monolith<\/a>&#8220;.  <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/manh33_2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Oh, as to the wedding . . . a lovely ceremony for a lovely couple, held up at Saint Barts.  What&#8217;s that, you really want to see a picture?  Well . . . OK, I guess . . . why not (unless someone complains).  Wishing them the best, although they seem to be off to a happy start here!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/manh33_3.jpg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get to New York City much anymore, despite living only 14 miles from it. But today I took a train into the big city to attend the wedding of a former work associate who I have occasionally stayed in touch with over the years. On the way home, I took a look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}