NEW YORK CITY, Winter 2004
( Dec 15 - Dec 20 )

Trips to the Met and AMNH, walks on the 5th, bustle along Times Square, vertigo on Empire State, and a ramble in Central Park.

SATURDAY, 18 DECEMBER: Broadway, Times Square, Fifth Avenue, Empire State Building

On Broadway .. musical theatre billboards everywhere !! 

Meet the cast .. from the left - Sreyasi - onsite for Cognizant at Long Island, Pradipta - graduate student at Carnegie Mellon at Pittsburgh, and Souvik - onsite for Infosys at Manhattan. Note the singular lack of smiles on the faces of those who have ventured to look at the Times Square TGIF menu price columns.

... and the photographer CC .. onsite for Tata Consultancy at Philadelphia 

My first Broadway show - the rustic and melodious Fiddler recast.

Times Square by day ... The shop below the big purple hoarding is the TOYS'R'US shop - Souvik's client

Far above the madding crowd  

Time-lapsing in the Minskoff foyer 

Packed to the rafters .. if you can say that of a street 

Times Square is so bracing ... 

Minskoff Foyer 

The most expensive billboards in the world 

The Christmas Tree of lights, on 5th Avenue 

At the 86th floor of the Empire State Building - The Great White Way, and Times Square 

New Jersey, and the Hudson

Simcity 3000 

Time-lapsed on top of the world
 

Duh ... 

At the Empire State Building restaurant. Souvik and Pradipta in a contemplative mood post mulled cider. And no .. that thingie beside me is not a Star Trek thingie but my down jacket
 

The backpackers take New York 

A stroll down Fifth post dinner takes us past Macy's 

Make believe at Macy's 

Christmas lighting reflects from Macy's shop windows - this one depicts the movie The Polar Express 

Macy's - complete with rickshaws and windowshoppers