Eighth Street, After the Pride Parade

Matt has posted some photos of the new place.

The Dyke March just went by on Fifth Avenue. I was unpacking stuff, and I started to hear all these whistles and shouts, so I opened the window, looked out, and saw a huge crowd marching down Fifth. I saw some rainbow flags. It had to be the Dyke March, which is always the day before the Pride March.

Below us, down on Eighth Street, there’s an NYC truck unloading metal barricades for said Pride March, which will go right past our building. Yay! (Yay I think…)

The views from this apartment are beautiful. If I stick my head out the window (which makes Matt very nervous) and look left, I can see 8th Street all the way to Tomkins Square Park; if I look right, I can see 8th Street end at Sixth Avenue, and in the distance I can even see New Jersey. Looking south out the windows, we can see the tall buildings of the World Financial Center – this apartment must have had a great view of the World Trade Center towers. The kitchen has a window facing north, out of which, in the distance, we can see just the edge of One Penn Plaza on 34th Street.

One of us will take some photos soon and post them.