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serindeIt's gone back to being hot and sticky. Bletch.
After dinner[1], Brian and I walked down from the Village to the gaping hole. It's the first time I'd been down there since, well, a year ago, when there were still bits of building standing up (and lots of playa dust over everything--no, really, the playa is gypsum which is what's used to make sheet rock etc. which is what a lot of the dust was).
Big big hole. Only it's like one of those mind-tricking pictures--it looks way too immense when you compare it to the skyscrapers around it, but then you look down and it looks way too small to contain subways and a shopping mall and a parking garage (until everything went *foom* and there were diagrams of the complex on every news source, I'd never known there _was_ a parking garage).
We tried to walk around to the Winter Garden (which reopened Tuesday) but it seemed to be closed for the night. The little park alongside 1 Liberty Plaza also seems to be completely fenced off--I wonder why? Surely they've cleaned all the crud up by now.
There's still a gash on one floor of the West St. CO. I could say something snarky, but will refrain.
[1] Vittorio's on Bleecker St. a bit west of Seventh. Brian's gnocchi and our fresh mozzarella appetizer was excellent; my risotto wasn't bad but, as seems to be unfortunately common, as soon as saffron gets involved they lay it on with a trowel. Sigh. Subtlety is important, people!
After dinner[1], Brian and I walked down from the Village to the gaping hole. It's the first time I'd been down there since, well, a year ago, when there were still bits of building standing up (and lots of playa dust over everything--no, really, the playa is gypsum which is what's used to make sheet rock etc. which is what a lot of the dust was).
Big big hole. Only it's like one of those mind-tricking pictures--it looks way too immense when you compare it to the skyscrapers around it, but then you look down and it looks way too small to contain subways and a shopping mall and a parking garage (until everything went *foom* and there were diagrams of the complex on every news source, I'd never known there _was_ a parking garage).
We tried to walk around to the Winter Garden (which reopened Tuesday) but it seemed to be closed for the night. The little park alongside 1 Liberty Plaza also seems to be completely fenced off--I wonder why? Surely they've cleaned all the crud up by now.
There's still a gash on one floor of the West St. CO. I could say something snarky, but will refrain.
[1] Vittorio's on Bleecker St. a bit west of Seventh. Brian's gnocchi and our fresh mozzarella appetizer was excellent; my risotto wasn't bad but, as seems to be unfortunately common, as soon as saffron gets involved they lay it on with a trowel. Sigh. Subtlety is important, people!
