Skyscraping

From [09.07.14] New York From Above

Check out some amazing pics I snapped from my JetBlue flight from Orlando to Boston! I was watching TV the entire flight with the window down when I suddenly had the urge to take a glimpse and the clouds. To my surprise and delight, at that very second we were soaring over Manhattan! talk about timing. In a week’s time I had two near brushes with the city I love the most: once when I transferred in Newark and then this. I guess I’m always subconsciously in a New York state of mind!

Lower Manhattan to Midtown:

From [09.07.14] New York From Above

Central Park and Uptown:

From [09.07.14] New York From Above

[09.07.14] New York From Above

New York Minute

Back in the US of A at last, but not on land for long; the sandy shores of Satellite Beach Florida beckoned and I was only 48 hours from answering their call. After finally slipping into bed about 8AM Israeli time, not having slept for a good 24 hours, I greeted my day and a half in the city with a tourist’s energy and a New Yorker’s long list of errands. Ah, how I missed the endless, expansive noise, the sickeningly sweet-n-sour smell of the garbage overflowing by 4PM and the 24-hour delivery!

But the one thing I missed most about the City, my City — aside from my friends, their jokes, their laughter and positive energy — was looking up at the tip-tops of those glass and steel canyons and feeling the elation of being alive and involved in such a magnificent place. Between the to-dos, the catch-up lunches and the prep for another trip, my eyes drifted skyward over and over and over again …