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For an opinionated woman such as I, blogging is an excellent outlet. This is one of many fori that I use to bloviate. Enjoy! Comment on my commentary.

Quiet spots & city bustle

Scaffolds are covering the quiet areas in this part of the city.
Rocky’s Pizza (Graziano, not Balboa) is under attack from construction next door. The good news: that blue is striking, and workers from the site are having pizza for lunch.
The gold dome in the first picture is the Met Life (I think) insurance building. The other two? The top of the Byzantine church around 34th & 2nd.
The Brooklyn invasion is not just on the UES. It’s also at 26th & 2nd.
Mixed “media” landscape with some interesting approaches to how an what to build. There’s lots of construction and lots of empty retail around.

Deco on 42

Deco predominated 42nd Street at one time.
The News Building
220 E 42nd:renewal at the News
They’re a little late. Maybe next year like the old Brooklyn Dodgers.
Scott Sylvester Quartet

The tour ended with lunch al fresco to a jazz fest by the Sylvester Scott Trio. Once the drummer arrives, it will be the Sylvester Scott Quartet.

Sylvester Scott has an ‘art deco’ trumpet.

Playing favorites

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

To paraphrase Oklahoma (the musical) when I’m not near the season I love, I love the season I am near.

Weather plays a big part in how we enjoy our day.

Walking is always pleasant on a 60-degree morning in sunshine. It’s still cool but so nice. These conditions are likely in the Springtime. But they can also be replicated in the Fall.

As we approach December’s chill, I always say another layer will help ward it off.

There is an especially sensuous thrill when the humidity and the heat embrace us. Dressing lightly and let it be hot.

Nostalgic

This is one of many iconic New York buildings.

In lunch conversation, as one thing led to another, my memory while active and ecletic still seemed as full of holes as Swiss cheese.

I could start an anecdote, but crucial details required a session with Google.

Filling in Fred MacMurray‘s role in Double Indemnity didn’t jog enough of the story. The point of it had been to detail Akim Tamiroff as a window washer in a very different MacMurray film, Honeymoon in Bali. But I offer too much information.

The detour into the movies was one path over lunch. The other was a recollection from my C.V. which had long been forgotten but is ever so pertinent to this Walk with Me, Too blog.

Eons ago, I was on a junior board at the Municipal Art Society with offices in the Lotte Palace Hotel at the Villard Houses.

MAS is one of several preservationist advocacy groups in our city.