{"id":378,"date":"2007-05-26T22:39:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T03:39:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-05-26T22:39:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T03:39:23","slug":"go-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Go Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday was a bit more relaxed. We had only one plan – to go to the Met, so we hung out at the apartment, talked philosophy over home-made spaghetti with meatballs and played frisbee in Astoria Park until early afternoon.<\/p>\n

Here is a descriptive photo of a friendly warning posted on a neighbor’s house. The blurry enlargement is of an illustration of a pit bull gnawing on a bloody human arm. How cute!<\/p>\n

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Here is a shot taken in Astoria Park from under the Triborough Bridge looking out at the East River and the Hell Gate Bridge.<\/p>\n

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Afterwards we headed back to the apartment for the spaghetti lunch and then took the R into Manhattan once again. The first gallery we visited at the Met was the American Wing. To my surprise after only a few minutes I came upon a painting very familiar. This painting<\/a> has been hanging in my parents’ living room for many years. I always thought it had been an original (never bothered to go up and feel it) that my mother had found or bought at an antiques store. Personally I never liked it because it always looked like there should be a house in the middle. After learning that it is nearly a century old and the subject matter is Eastern Oregon I’m even more befuddled. I tried to sneak a call to my mother as I stood in front of it only to find out that my cell phone was dead even though I’d charged it the night before. This was a common problem and Aaron explained it was due to the fact that I wasn’t on my usual network – so my phone had to constantly search for the signal – thus wasting lots of battery power. Maybe when pops reads this he can shed some light on how a print of a Childe Hassam painting displayed in the Met made it into his living room.<\/p>\n

Aaron and I had an in depth conversation about our lives and our parents that left me feeling a little shaken. He has a year membership to the Met so he didn’t want to walk through any longer after the first ninety minutes. I wanted to see as much as possible so we agreed to split up and meet again at his apartment. I planned to stay until the museum closed at 9, but after another hour of walking through the galleries I was having a hard time finding new pieces. <\/p>\n

I left the Met and crossed Central Park to the western side of the park to see if the Natural History Museum had anything to offer. On the way I stopped at the Belvadere Castle<\/a> and the Great Lawn<\/p>\n

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It was closed, so I kept on walking along Central Park West until I came to a building that looked familiar. I couldn’t place it at first – but then I looked up at the top and realized it was the infamous “built by Ivo Shandor and held rooftop rituals in the 20s<\/a>” building from Ghostbusters. Turns out it was built in 1929 by Schwartz and Gross.<\/p>\n

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I continued down Central Park West to Columbus Circle.<\/p>\n

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A handsome cab stopped for a breather right in my path after pulling through central park.<\/p>\n

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Knowing this was likely my last day in Manhattan I took a stroll down to Central Park Station again instead of getting on the subway at Columbus Circle.<\/p>\n

Here is my last view of Times Square as dusk overtakes New York.<\/p>\n

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After returning home Aaron made some home-made cheese pizza with pita bread and a toaster oven. <\/p>\n

We then walked to a convenience store and bought fruit and ice cream for a treat to watch the pilot of X-Files on his computer. Apparently Aaron is going through the X-Files and STNG addiction that I had in college. Of course, I had to catch it all at random on Spike network – he is watching them on the internet.<\/p>\n

On the way to the store I saw a great view of the Triborough Bridge that I wanted to capture on film. There was nothing to stabalize the camera for a long exposure though – so after the x-files I borrowed Aaron’s tripod and we ventured back out.<\/p>\n

Some might say it is risking your life to hang out in a dark alleyway in Queens at 1am. All I found were some ghosts that looked like me.<\/p>\n

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Thats okay, these rough dudes can take on any restless ghosts wandering around Astoria.<\/p>\n

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and – here it is – the shot I wanted<\/p>\n

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