Saturday, December 19, 2020 - City facades: East 47th & Vanderbilt.

An intuitive impulse guided me to pull the color from this photo; which is a shot I captured earlier today, while walking around Midtown Manhattan. East 47th & Vanderbilt is a neighborhood where I’ve never spent time under purely social circumstances, or for curiosity’s sake. Instead, I’ve only walked these streets when heading to and from Grand Central Station.

Typically it’s a district that’s heavily peopled with men and women in business attire –––– wielding briefcases; speaking into cell phones; and jumping into and out of taxis ––– though like much of Manhattan (as well as the city in general these days (and this year)), there were more shadows and signs of former-hurriedness than actual hurriedness.

This gap in the skyline, as seen from the ground felt massive; as though a piece of the city had been pulled out and set aside for cleaning and repair. The change, of course, would only be temporary. I don’t know what buildings were here before; nor do I know, as of the writing of this post, what structure is being built here now. Something gigantic I’m sure. Commercial office space or a building of similar ilk, which is at once a lore from the past, as well as ––– perhaps, a stalwart for the future. We shall see, what will become of East 47th & Vanderbilt.