Your moment of Zen

Lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center. [More photos here]

Your moment of Zen

Abandoned City Hall Subway Station, NYC. [photo via Jeremy Duns and Expatina]

Your second moment of Zen

A Lady Liberty, photo taken in 1925. [via]

Daily jutxaposition

Christmas in New York edition. If you ever wondered how they decorate the giant tree in Rockefeller Center (and I have), here's what it looks like when the tree arrives.

[via Justin Shanes]

And after it's decorated:

[Tony Fratto photo]

And a long view of the plaza.

[via Hudsonette]

It's been years since I've been in New York at Christmastime, but Rockefeller Center was always one of my favorites. And the shop windows on Fifth Avenue.

I am thankful - Updated

I am really thankful I'm not trying to get out of Manhattan tonight. This is the crowd outside of Penn Station.

[photo via The Matthew Keys]

This is what it looks like inside the station.

[photo via Hudsonette]

And this is what's happening.

WPIX: Nightmare before Thanksgiving: Penn Station shut down as signal problems cripple LIRR, NJ Transit, Amtrak (Story).

My sympathy to the thousands who are living through it.

Meanwhile: Grand Central Station is relative empty.

[photo via A Great Big City]

Always loved that train station. And as a child, loved the automat that was across the street from it.

Update: Gothamist tells me some service now restored but it's still going to be a long wait. Great photo of the scene on the street at the link.

Many rivers to cross

I've crossed the 59th Street bridge many times in my life. If memory serves, there was always a few squeeqee guys lurking at the traffic light at the end. And there was a whole long block full of motorcyles on the way to the West Village.



Click to embiggen. It's worth it. [Sorensen NYC photo, via]

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