Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

Here I am at the Top of the same building climbed by Alain Roberts and the other dude from Brooklyn this past week.
I made it up in the conventional style.
I watched them build this skyscraper from the foundation all the way to the pinnacle. It was a thrill to get to the top while they were still working on it though the ironworkers had long since departed.

In the second photo you can spot the “ladder” like skin to the building which made climbing it a cinch to anyone crazy enough to try. The building is covered in its entirety.
Now if someone can get me to the top of the new World Trade Center Tower 1 (aka Freedom Tower)!

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New Yorkers enjoying a beautiful Spring day in late May 2008 on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Dropped a pretty penny at Tavern on the Green. Took the extended family for brunch and since I guess I look like the rich one in the group, was handed the check no questions asked.

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Everywhere you go in New York City including the caverns known as the New York City Subway System, there is someone assailing your ears or in ths case, a group of percussionists doing their thing will “straphangers” wait for the F train at 14th Street and Union Square in Manhattan.

Empty Plastic carpentry compound pails form the instruments in this case. They were so good I actually dropped money in the tin cup as my train was arriving.

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High above Queens, New York; a borough of New York City for those that don’t know, a view of the under-construction Citi Field which will replace Shea Stadium as the home of the New York Metropolitans better known as the Mets.

Based on Ebbets Field, the old home of the Brooklyn Dodgers who fled to sunny Los Angeles well before my time in the late ’50’s.

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A somewhat dated (Christmas time 2006) photo of downtown Manhattan with the Woolworth Building square in the middle.
Slowly the majestic Woolworth is being overshadowed by a series of Skyscrapers all taller then its 792 foot height which was the tallest between 1913 when it was built till somewhere around 1930 .

My company has moved from Mid-town Manhattan to lower Broadway in Greenwich Village about 1 mile from the building. It is one of the landmarks visible from many vantage points.

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Ah the festiveness of New York City during the Thanksgiving and then sprint to Christmas season. Even with many Broadway shows shuttered during the current stagehand strike, there is the annual Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall shown here in the early evening festooned with 75th Anniversary markings.
The streets are naturally chock full of excited, wide-eyed folks of all ages , walking leisurely sometimes purposelessly impeding the progress of us hurried New Yorkers.

I am off to India on business in a week and will miss about half of the “shopping” season but since I wait till the last moment anyway, should not be much of a problem. Stay tuned for photos of India including a few surprises. I won’t let the cat out of the bag yet of what I mean by that.

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Just to prove that the last post was not a lark , here is the editor of Julio Miyares Musings high above at the top of an undisclosed Skycraper still official under construction in Midtown Manhattan, New York Ciy.

This now completes my official public infatuation with tall New York City buildings. For the next two weeks will be reporting from Sunny Key Biscayne, Florida.

A hurricane is forming and one of the possible tracks is towards this area but still too early to tell. Should know by Friday. You may see me reporting from the eye of a hurricane like those silly News Weathermen. Lets see…

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High above Manhattan in an undisclosed Skyscraper currently in the finishing touches of construction , the editor of this blog takes a photo of his other favorite construction project in the City of New York; the Bank of America Tower. This was taken from the rooftop. I got there a few months after my favorite trade The Ironworkers were complete with their tasks but I guess you can’t have it all.

Tomorrow I leave for Key Biscayne Florida. Watch for exciting reports on a periodic basis from Sunny Southern Flodida

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What a way to make a living! I have run across the Naked Cowboy various times in my walks through Times Square but this is the first time I have bothered to snap a photo. I can’t even remember if he can sing. I suspect it doesn’t matter. He always has a bunch of tourist gawking though in this photo he appears somewhat “lonely”.

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Captured a set of photos today of my favorite all-time union - the Ironworkers. Here you see at least two of them on a beam of the new Bank of America building rising on 42nd Street and 6th Avenue in New York City. The current height of the super structure is at about 900 feet. I seem to be one of the few people interested in this stuff as thousands of folks walk by me without stopping to look while I spend quite a bit of time looking up watching this spectacle high up above Midtown Manhattan.

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