By Nick Wilder
New York has always been my second city. Keven and I lived there from 1976 to 1979. She worked for a cable tv company. I reverse commuted to New Jersey to my job with a real estate development firm. Keven and I had different reactions to life in Manhattan. I loved the noise and energetic pace. She wanted to live in a calmer environment and jumped at the opportunity for us to move to Chicago for my job. We both enjoy living in Chicago, but I never got over my love affair with New York. We go back to New York every January when the hotel room rates fall and the crowds are a little less frenetic. We visit the museums, treat relatives to brunch at the Odeon restaurant and check out the latest Broadway shows. I particularly enjoy walking around the parks and streets taking photos of whatever catches my eye. Here are some examples:
Statue of Liberty seen from Battery Park
With relatives in front of the Odeon restaurant
Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park
Busker in Central Park
Flowers in lobby of Metropolitan Museum
Food truck
View from bar at River Cafe
Viewing hay art up close in a Chelsea art gallery |
Thumbs up at a food truck |
New entrance to the Museum of Natural History designed by Jeanne Gang
Fashion plate in front of Metropolitan Museum
Central Park trees
View of the midtown skyline
Copying the Masters in the Metropolitan Museum
Skating in Central Park
Inside the Guggenheim Museum
Memorial to our friend Bob Cruikshank who died on 9/11
Music making in Central Park
Roller skating at a downtown shopping mall
Looking down the Hudson River towards Staten Island
Sunrise from our hotel room on 59th Street
