The Mighty Towers

And there they were... The mighty towers of Lower Manhattan standing as proud testimony to capitalist triumphs. Somehow, on a spring morning, with the cold winds gushing on your face and the sun shining bright and clear, even skyscrapers look almost idyllic...

Rain or Shine

The weatherman saw thunderstorms coming in on Sunday. Thankfully, we only had a few intermittent showers. And then, just as I was about the set down into Penn Station for train back home, there was the setting sun spewing gold at the other end of the street, lighting up the Empire State Building...

The Higher You Go...

Till this point, the tallest building I have been to stood 13 storeys high. ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND FLOOR!!! Sorry! When you are little boy from a nondescript small town, there are some things you can't pretend to be indifferent about... After I overcame the intial awe, I spent a lot of time staring at the twinkling little light and trying to picture the lives that flow around them...

A Dog-Run on Wall Street

Walking down Wall-Street doing Rupee conversions of investment-banker salaries, we ran into Rufus and his master near the NYSE. Rufus was a tired boy after a lot of walking. But he posed sportingly for us...

The Lungs of New York

Any city can be forgiven its polluting transgressions if it houses and protects a haven of greenery like Central Park in its heart. The Park is full of dense greenery, birds, squirrels, joggers, horse carriages, cyclists, kids, dogs - as motley a crowd as the rest of New York. Amid some of the costliest real estate in the world (a Park view apartment can leave you poorer by $10 million), this gosling family found time, space and a lot of attention as the swam proudly about in one of the Park's little lakes...

Colorful Commuters @ Whitehall Station

New York is a colorful mix! As a guy in the pizzeria on 7th Avenue told me, 50% of the world's population will have someone they know in New York. You see Africans, Japanese, Europeans, Latin Americans and the ubiqitous Indians and Chinese. You walk off Lower Manhattan into Chinatown and just further into Little Italy... In New York, there's space for everyone...