Fireworks with Happy Faces

It's been too long since we got some fireworks up in here.

I'm going to start this with the end. It's always neat after the throngs of people around the entire city stop screaming in delight and the boats and yachts stop blowing their horns; there's just that cloud of smoke lingering over the thirties.






HAPPY FACES.

153 East 53rd Street, 31st Floor (The Citicorp Building)

Call it what you will, Wikipedia, I call it the Citicorp building. That there in the foreground is the Lipstick building.

I'm not sure what building on third ave, below, that is with that strange pattern on the first setback. Looks Lever-Housey.

666 5th Avenue, 26th floor

I apologize for the delay for a new post. It won't happen again.

30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor (The Rainbow Room)

I think if you look hard, you can see Albany. Unfortunately I had to leave before sunset.

Towards the Hudson.

OK, now this is the bathroom. It's actually on the 66th floor. You walk up a small (32"?) stair to get to it. The view from the sink is below. Nice pisser, eh?

Sorry for the interior shots, but this is the main ballroom.

Spires left to right: Empire State, Bank of America, 4 Times Square (Conde Nast)

The Williamsburg Bridge is way off in the distance.

LIC represent.

500 5th Avenue, 54th Floor

From left to right: Bank of America Tower, 1515 Broadway, 1540 Broadway (aka the Bertlesmann building) and 1177 6th Ave.

Left to right: my tie and the statue of Liberty.

810 7th Avenue, 26th Floor

Northwest

Southwest

South to Times Square

The fishbowl.

Southeastish

1515 Broadway, 43rd Floor

And then there were two: Bank of America Tower (under construction) and Conde Nast.


Westin Hotel and NYT Building.

The glass cube on the left with the circular floors inside is the top of the Marriott Marquis.

Me, looking anonymous.

Jersey.

Cool window washing rig.

1 [?] Penn Plaza.