Friday, November 25, 2011

The Grand Clock Above


No tourist comes to New York City for its history. And most New Yorkers certainly don’t have the leisure to glance up from their palm-held hyperconnectivity, to appreciate the Big Apple’s rich architectural jewels, which happen to surround them.

One a recent blustery evening, as M and I walked down from Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street, the magnificent façade of the Grand Central Terminal, accosted us. We stopped in our tracks, and I whipped out my camera. 

The grand ornate clock, instinctively reminded me of the pair of gargoyles that stare down at Paris, from their high perch atop the Norte Dame. A work of Gilded Age New York, it has, according to Wikipedia, the largest collection of Tiffany glass.

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