I have a love/hate relationship with NYC. I live near Rosedale Queens and I commuted into the city via train for 20+ years before starting to work remotely. I hate Queens, I hate Brooklyn, rarely go to the Bronx (only for the zoo), and only pass through Staten Island on expressways. Manhattan though. I hate driving in Manhattan but I’ve done plenty of it. I even “relearned” how to ride a motorcycle in Manhattan, taking weekly lessons on the upper east side and midtown. That was exciting. I’ve walked around many different areas of that island and have seen it change dramatically in the 20+ years I’ve worked there. I could live in the West Village area – that’s nice. Or somewhere up by Central Park in a nice brownstone maybe. Overall, though, it would be tough place to live and expensive and, surprisingly, I believe it would be lonely. Even with all those people around, I can see isolation happening easily. I’ve often walked the streets at night looking for something or someone but really making no connections and learning that I’m desperately seeking something I’ll probably never find – that I want something different but lack the bravery to get it – or possibly that I don’t even really know what it is that I’m looking for. It leaves me feeling empty, dissatisfied, lonely, and sad.
These are a few pics of the buildings in Columbus Circle taken from Central Park – The Pond near 5th and 59th.
At the time of these pics, I was working in Midtown – can’t remember where exactly because my company moved two or three times during those years. I don’t think I have a picture from Spring. My eye doctor was up that way as well. I used to run in Central Park at lunch and will never forget the first time I did the entire loop and learned there are big hills at the north end of the park. That’s my memory of that run anyway – I only did the entire loop once, I think.
This was always, to me, a fun picture. NYC melting. I don’t even remember how this effect was achieved – probably by accident.
It is time to leave NYC though, I think. I’ve not worked in the city for a few years – I’ve been working remotely even though my office is over by Grand Central now. I’ve been in there a few times – its a nice office. Time to pick up and move to somewhere with a little more nature. The city had somewhat of a corrupting effect on me or maybe it was a revealing effect. Not sure.
I Wander Where I'll Go 