the spire was secretly assembled inside the top floors and hoisted up to it's final height in a single day in a dramatic - and successful - bid to seize the title of tallest building in the world from a local competitor

only to lose the title to the empire state building the following year.

i like the blue rental skates and the new york public library in the background.

by the way, despite a veritable leitmotif in recent entries, i don't even like to skate.

at strawberry fields in central park

site of john lennon's murder 25 years and a few days ago

there buddy

trump - used to be wollman - rink

he's thinking "please, tourists, jump over both of those fences and make a rush for it. please!"

and the big tree