Everything else about it sucks, but there are exactly three reasons I love working downtown:
1) the view,
2) my apartment is one subway stop away, and
3) ticker tape parades!
I had originally planned to go down to the street to capture some pictures of the players for anyone who might actually care about sports, but the sidewalks were barricaded by the time I got to work at 9, and the teeming hordes of fans were already infiltrating (don’t these people have jobs?), so my co-worker Roxanne and I took to the balcony on our floor instead to shoot some skyline pictures and talk about which of the team members she’s going to marry someday. Our office is 25 stories up, so the panorama from the balcony is pretty incredible.
The parade began on the Western-most side of lower Manhattan, Battery Park City:
and continued up Broadway to City Hall:
We think this tiny black car held Mr. MVP, Elisha Nelson “Eli” Manning (haha, Elisha).
New Jersey, across the Hudson River.
This office emptied case after case of copier paper out of their windows.
There was plenty of toilet paper flying, too.
Toilet paper in the air over the in-progress One World Trade Center, a.k.a. Freedom Tower.
Football players in NYC sightseeing buses.
Roxanne is actually a sports fan, so this is way less fake than if I had been holding the sign.
And thus concludes my half-hour of caring about football once every four years. Hooray!
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So, so jealous. If I had a view like that I’d never leave work. Plus, I would have way too much fun throwing confetti out the window.
That view is amazing! Do you get to see some of it from where you sit, too?
Only 25 stories? Weak. Call me when you work in a real tower.
These are delightful. The Superbowl was not at all.
The toilet paper looks pretty.
Ooooo! The view from your office is SUPER pretty. I’m kind of jealous.
Also I am angry or excited or something about football. Grrr… football. All those people… and the scores… and that game thing on Sunday was definitely epic. When that one person caught the ball and ran somewhere.
Thoughts at large:
1. Gee, you guys get to open your windows? No fair.
2. Elisha is better than Elihu, which is Judge Smales’ (Caddyshack) first name, which is probably why he’s so mean. And hey, that ties in because he was the one that said, “Don’t you all have jobs?”
3. At least they were throwing the copier paper out the window by sheets… not by the box.
4. The Super Bowl is not an Olympic event.
5. You should come see today’s post. You’ll like this one…
Gorgeous photos. Love all the colors!
Amazing view. So glad the Super Bowl gives you something so unique to enjoy.
Amazing photos, Katie! Seiously – WHEN ARE YOU CHANGING CAREERS??!!
If I had a view like that I’d never get anything done.
Not that I do now, but… you know.
Stunning photos, U.M.!
:)
I always wonder who cleans up when something like this happens.
And if you decided to throw toilet paper out your office windows on any random day for no significant reason, would you get arrested or fined?