Together the Chrysler, it is the most beautiful building in New York City.
And it stands right outside my window.

Hell’s Kitchen, NY
July 21st, 2020
Together the Chrysler, it is the most beautiful building in New York City.
And it stands right outside my window.
Hell’s Kitchen, NY
July 21st, 2020
April 18th, 2020
Schools, restaurants, gyms were closed. There was a gradual lockdown until March 20, when all non-essential workers were ordered to stay at home, and the City went on PAUSE. Shut in our glass tower, we spied on the Port Authority traffic (significantly reduced, yet there were still buses running), communicated with signs on windows and a 3-minute clapping every evening at seven (to cheer the frontliners, but also a get-together of sorts, as if to reassure each other we weren’t alone), learned how to work on Zoom, a platform no-one had ever heard of pre-Covid, but was now quickly becoming our new workplace.
We got sick and very wary of the ways the virus could evolve, with only mild symptoms fortunately; I couldn’t remember the last time I felt so insecure, but then again, I’d never been sick with a potentially deadly virus and no access to a doctor, let alone testing, save for a phone call and daily updates by sms(!).
We got our hopes high with the arrival of USNS Comfort on March 30th, which was meant to alleviate the pressure from the City’s hospitals, only to depart exactly a month later having treated only 182 patients(!!).
All the while, we watched a ton of movies and TV series (”What We Do in the Shadows” was a highlight), tried to find disinfectant alcohol and wipes in vain, observed Amazon deliveries becoming a necessity and no longer a luxury, cooked a lot despite the loss of smell and taste which took about a month to return and even then not completely, because some things with strong aromas like lemons, onions or sandalwood now smell funny; turmeric and ginger became our new staples.
We witnessed the silence of empty streets the few times we had to work from the office (once no longer infectious) – and I mean really empty, as in people-playing-tennis-on-42nd-St.-&-Third-Avenue-at-nine-o’clock-in-the-morning empty; and I sported my new Covid-19 hairdo, which may or may not have triggered some stunned looks, but I’m still keeping it nonetheless.
Hell’s Kitchen Towers, NYC
March 15-31, 2020
And the moon was the cherry on the cake
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January 10th, 2020
A golden sunset bringing the first day of the year to a quiet end. Little did we know then how much our lives were about to change in a couple of months…
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
January 1st, 2020
Hell’s Kitchen
December 12th, 2019
It’s mine…
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Manhattan, N.Y.
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