Viva La Zoom

Ah... the wonder of zoom on the camera. This Christmas tree in the front is a block away in Gramercy Park and the Chrysler Building that looks so close in the background is 20 blocks away! My street Irving Place dead ends into the Park. I love my neighborhood!!! It's a little bit of calm reprieve in the busy world of Manhattan. Irving Place only runs between 14th Street and Gramercy Park and North of the park it's Lexington and gets busy and noisy and New Yorky. Two years before I moved here I used to come to NY for extended stays and would often take a cab from the East Village where I was staying with my pal Tom to go to Jenny's Studio on 19th Street. The cabs would take a right on Irving Place and turn left at 19th, I would think, this is a cool neighborhood, I'd like to live on this street. And... two years later after looking at 40 apartments in the middle of a heatwave August, this is exactly where I ended up. I've been here 11 years now and I still love my neighborhood and New York:)