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!
