I spent a lot of today around Columbus Circle in Manhattan today, that lovely part of Midtown that sits quite awkwardly after Lincoln Center and before Times Square and smells distinctly of hot sauce and horse. Somewhere between being asked by Scandinavian twenty-somethings if I wanted a ride in their rickshaw (no pun intended), I was able to appreciate the true beauty of this area. A lot of wonderful things sit here, like the Moma (even if they decided to hike their prices up a year and a half ago, I still need to give them props) and Ricky's (a New York chain icon). The monument smack in the center of Columbus Circle itself is actually quite beautiful (if you ever take a minute to just look at it, that is).
Yes, Columbus Circle is one of those quintessentially New York City locations, (I mean, it was even in Enchanted), managing to be so the money and not even know it and not even give a crap because it has too many other things to be doing while you stand there and take up space!
:sigh: There's no place like home.
One slight anomaly to this neighborhood is the Time Warner Building. This Trump masterpiece houses office buildings, a sound studio and a high-end shopping mall on the bottom three floors. What makes the shopping center odd, though, is the fact that there's a Whole Foods in the basement. Stranger still, there's a Borders Books front and center on the second floor. Thanks to these few mid-range shopping destinations, the Time Warner Building attracts tons of different kinds of people, allowing folks like me to walk past Coach and Pink and act like I'm supposed to be there. In being a total anomaly, the Time Warner Building actually manages, like Columbus Circle, to be quintessentially New York, welcoming Diamond Dogs and Urban Slummers to dwell in the same halls.
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