Skyscraper Meets Street Impressions

What places would you choose to visit if you could only spend twenty four hours in New York City?

“One can’t paint New York as it is , but rather as it is felt.”  (Georgia O’ Keefe)

Whenever I visit New York City, there seems to be a battle between high and low. In particular, there’s so much going on around me along very busy streets, that there’s little chance to look up at the glorious expanse of skyscrapers overhead. So let’s imagine New York City as a gigantic National Park where I could just take my time as if on an hiking trail and gaze around moment to moment randomly at whatever landscape high or low catches my interest at the time. 

With this idea in mind as well as the high heat factor, it thus made sense for us to book a “Hop On-Hop Off”  bus excursion for an open deck viewpoint of major sights in Lower and Mid Manhattan on Tuesday.  For from that vantage point, I noticed how much the city seems to have changed for me in recent years as I gazed skyward into new layers of skyscrapers now hovering high above the city below. Another point of transformation that  I observed  looking downward from the  upper  deck demonstrated how prominently the spread of glitzy electronic communication impacts NYC life today. 

But a major question remains about whether a short “go around” the “Big Apple”  as we decided on  today best fits one’s touristic needs. For don’t expect any in depth concentration on individual sights as you move briskly around the pre planned, street route corridor.Just bring along your camera as I did and shoot away as desired. Perhaps, there will be a better place/time to feel more deeply what you’ve photographed as I will do  today in the comfort of  my air conditioned cruise cabin.