stairwells and hallways

leaving nyc and heading back home. couldn't pass up the chance to stare at eero saarinen's terminal five, currently under restoration word has it that it will reopen sometime in september.

while in nyc this week for meetings and business, i decided to take advantage of it and rent a car to drive down to maryland to see my family. it's the first time in ten years that i've been home in the summer, somewhere between new jersey and the maryland border i hit a nice east coast summer storm... i totally forgot what that smells like and it was pretty refreshing.

in nyc for work this week and walked by the west 4th street pro-classic street ball tournament, my [nyc] coworkers kept walking not even noticing the amazing game that was playing itself out with the crowd of people seated on folding chairs cheering on their neighborhood heroes. the story is that it was started by ken graham, a brooklyn limousine driver in 1978, and it became such a greenwich village mainstay that it was featured on the cover of sports illustrated in 1997. i wish i could've stayed longer to watch the game play itself out but my colleagues were motioning me from the corner to move along so i did. i can only imagine the games have played themselves out on that slab of concrete in the last 30 years. i guess a happy anniversary is well deserved.

one of the perks of my new job is my chance to travel to nyc here and there for meetings. this is basically my commute back and forth from work over the brooklyn bridge and back... not to shabby.