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- Nov 2, 2022, 10:50 AM
- ☀️ 63 °F
- Altitude: 7 ft
- United StatesNew YorkMeatpacking District40°44’31” N 74°0’33” W
Tooling around Chelsea
November 2, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
First Up, breakfast. Went to the Chelsea Marketplace and had breakfast at Friedman’s. Nice place, good service. My tea glass was the size of toy set tea cup, but good. Sheri got a coffee cup you could swim in, not sure why the tea glass was tiny, maybe they are pro coffee. We’ll see happens after the election (just a random thought no meaning here…)
Off to the man-made green space built on huge, giant cement planters. It was pretty amazing and provided views of the Hudson which were beautiful. Took a bunch of pictures which you will see in the grouping.
Along the way, we found the land of misfit buildings:
Two buildings were built side by side at angles leaning towards each other (in SF this would NOT be a good thing. Besides SF likes their buildings to lean on their own not because they were designed that way. It’s more exciting to see if they’ll survive that next earthquake. (For those of you not from SF you may not get the reference…they built a new high rise in SF on landfill and then it started leaning, so far by two inches.)
Next to the leaning buildings, was a structure of all glass, but shaded white, with clear space in between each floor for what I assume are the windows. It looks like it was snowing outside and someone wiped away the snow so they could see out.
Next to the snow building was one that looked like brown bubble wrap, with each bubble being a condo.
Next to the brown bubble wrap building was a building that looked like a jigsaw puzzle, but not one that was already put together, just pieces laying around.
Down from the jigsaw puzzle building was this sleek beautiful high rise. With a suspended outside deck at least 40 stories up. Not one I would be spending much time on… Sheri, however, was all for bungee jumping from there.
Being good coffee drinkers, we went to the Starbucks Roasters and had tea. Okay, whatever. We met a few ladies from Houston who were there on a shopping spree and seemed to be having a very good time spending their money.
As we then made our way back to the subway, we found a CVS built in a former bank building. The interior is amazing and a bit disorienting.Read more