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New York, New York
Been singing hallelujah with the fear in your heart
There’s something about this picture that’s suspicious, beyond the tilt shift effects added later. It’s something about the view, it’s almost as if it was taken from the view of the back of the head of the Christopher Columbus statue high above Columbus Circle. If it looks like that, it’s because it was taken from the view of the back of the head of the Christopher Columbus statue high above Columbus Circle. Almost.
There’s something about this picture that’s suspicious too. That statue looks a little big for a typical living room, and even then, why are so many people there? Coupled with that last picture, there is definitely something else going on.
And here we have it. If you have ever wondered exactly what the fourteen foot high statue of Christopher Columbus at Columbus Circle might look like if it was standing on a coffee table in a living room filled with people with cameras, then your prayers have been finally answered. This is Tatzu Nishi's "Discovering Columbus" art installation, which kept Christopher Columbus exactly where he is and instead built a non accessible living room around it. After climbing all those stairs (it’s only like seven floors but it felt like more) and getting some amazing views of Columbus Circle, your timed entry ticket gets you inside to see the stone man up close and personal.
Open House New York is hitting it out of the park this year, with multiple boat tours and programs beyond their unmissable October event. This includes an OHNY "Divine Climb" tour of the eternally unfinished Cathedral of St John the Divine in Morningside Heights. The tour included relatively rare ascents of both the eastern and western ends of the cathedral, a trip into the unfinished crypt and a chance to walk the seriously impressive Guastavino tile circular stair.
For as long as I have realized that you could go, I have been going to the Tribeca Film Festival. I prefer the short film programs, a barrage of 90 minutes (or so) of six or seven short films back to back. They’re a bit emotionally exhausting to watch (filmmakers sure can pack a lot into 15 minutes) but they are overall very rewarding, and if one in between is terrible then no worries, it will be over soon anyway.
One thing about Tribeca is that the Tribeca part of the Tribeca Film Festival is usually a lie. My tickets this year were either at the Loews Village 7 or the Clearview on 23rd Street in Chelsea, and both are nowhere near most of Tribeca. But this year they tried something different, a Tribeca Film Festival on Greenwich Street that was actually in Tribeca, hopefully a new tradition that puts the Tribeca back in the Tribeca Film Festival.
Some black and white exterior photos of Glynallyn Castle, a historic mansion near Convent Station, New Jersey that is open as part of a design orientated month long charity drive called "Mansion in May” benefitting Morristown Memorial Hospital, The house's forty rooms are decorated by forty different design firms (some good, some bad, some in-between), but all interior photography was prohibited this year so you're going to have to just imagine what it looked inside as you’re just left with a few pictures of the very impressive historic house and its grounds.
Staying in New Jersey, we’re finishing up this page of the slideshow at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, now five years on since replacing the Continental Airlines Arena in the Meadowlands as the home of your New Jersey Devils. As you already know from reading these slideshows and paying close attention to every single mention and detail, I am a hockey fan and specifically a New Jersey Devils fan, and while just about every Weekend Trips Slideshow includes photos of far off hockey arenas, this may be the first pictures included of the one that I actually semi regularly go to. Having been to a lot of NHL arenas, I can say that it’s a good one although not the best, with some great local food choices, interesting concourses and solid sightlines. It is a huge improvement over their last arena at the Meadowlands, which had great sightlines but a single super narrow concourse and a bumper car obstacle course of a parking lot. I’ll take a Newark parking deck over driving Route 3 and Route 120 any day.
