Last Sunday, September 11, I wandered uptown to Madison Square Park, where the US Open tennis tournament was being broadcast on a large screen thanks to a corporate sponsor. And okay, I have the credit card. That got you access to one of the beach chairs in front of the screen. I sat down in one and somehow stayed for a slightly hallucinatory six hours, from the women's doubles final through the men's singles.
Here's what it looked like when I got there. Bright, not too many people. (Around here, the gorgeous weather in September gives some people a little chill....
heading out last night to find this:
apparently the truck driver thought he was shorter than he actually was and took his roof off going under a bridge:
traffic was banked up for a couple of kilometers when the clean-up crew arrived...