I’ll be writing a proper entry about our New York adventures when we get back, but for now, I couldn’t resist posting a quick update from the impressive interior of the beautiful beaux-arts New York Public Library on 42nd and Fifth. If only to add it to the mental list of “places I’ve blogged”.
So far, we have been having a fantastic time–we’ve done our fair share of sightseeing, eaten plenty of great food and taken advantage of the fantastic exchange rate (and Sally’s doing that even more so in Macy’s as I write–I can’t imagine why she would prefer to do that then saunter round one of the best libraries in the world, but there you go). Oh, what else? well, we’ve been shopping in thrift stores on Staten Island, followed Michael Moore and an entire NFL team (who weren’t together, I might add) around the edges of the ground zero site, seen a movie being filmed in Central Park, (as well as countless news crews wandering the streets), and I haven’t been asked for ID (in the fabulous no smoking bars) once. I must be getting old…
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the impressive interior of the beautiful beaux-arts New York Public Library on 42nd and Fifth
…where the first scene of Ghostbusters took place.
Stanz: At 1:40 p.m., at the main branch of the New York public library on 5th avenue, ten people witnessed a free-floating, full-torso, vaporous apparition! It blew books off shelves from twenty feet away and scared the socks off of some poor librarian!
If you head downtown to the junction of North Moore St and Varick St you’ll find Hook & Ladder No. 8, the fire station used as the exterior of Ghostbusters HQ. Hurrah!
Wow! If only I’d know it was the library out of Ghostbusters then I’d definitely have been able to persuade Sally to come and see it with me instead of going shopping for makeup…