Billboards, extremely tall buildings, crowds of people bundled up in their winter coats and scarves, taxis, buses, horse-drawn carriages, food carts and street vendors - these are among the sights, sounds and aromas of New York City's Time Square!
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| Lines of people waiting to buy tickets |
Our bus made great time - Two and a half hours from Three Rivers College in Norwich, CT to Times Square. For a while, all I could do was look up, snap photos and smile. It was such great fun to be out of my comfort zone and experiencing the exhilaration of the city! I loved the variety of architecture, each building providing something unique to admire.
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| Wide and reflective |
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| Tall and covered in ads |
After taking it all in, I lowered my sights and discovered food carts, friends with smiles as wide as mine, and architectural detail unheard of in modern suburbs.
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| Times Square food cart |
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| Donna and JoEllen |
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| Church entrance |
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| Stone arches, cornices, pillars and more... |
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| Unique structures on roof tops |
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| Traffic and streets shaded by endlessly tall buildings |
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| A Christmas tree near Fox News, with flags lowered to half-staff due to a recent base shooting |
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| NBC Studios next to Radio City Music Hall |
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| Mosiac over entry to NBC Studios |
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| Although it is too blurry to read, I assure you, the tee-shirt has today's date-12/7/19 on which Jennifer Lopez will appear on Saturday Night Live |
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| Here I am in the Rockefeller Center Mall with Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon! |
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| A little NBC history |
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| An FAO Schwartz pop-up store |
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| Angels and Christmas decorations in Rockefeller Plaza |
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| Ice skaters in Rockefeller Center... |
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| ...And we were there to see it all! |
A little more walking, a little more looking up...
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| A church spire |
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| more crowds, buildings and flags |
... and then some window shopping
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| Yarn Yaks in the Anthropology window... |
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| ...and a Fa La La La Llama |
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| Another view of the tree |
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| One of my favorite "Just For Fun" things - a greenhouse igloo for enjoying wine and cheese in the great outdoors of NYC! |
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| In front of the CBS News building |
Then it was time for lunch at Fresh where we had great food I was too busy enjoying to remember to take a photo of. I had a smoked salmon sandwich, JoEllen had a Falafel sandwich, and Donna had a Buffalo chicken sandwich. There were no complaints! While filling up, we enjoyed our view of the city, noticing things like phone booths (does anyone still use those?), and wondering if Gail King, Nora O'Donnell or any other celebrities might walk in (they didn't).
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| phone booths in NYC |
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| A food cart out front and Chipotle across the street |
Then a little more of the city sights before heading to...
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| Golden building details |
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| Ivy covered walls |
...Central Park - stay tuned for next week's blog post!
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