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in my neck from walking round all day looking up at the new york skyscrapers! also, sore feet - i walked from the hotel on 47th & 3rd all the way down to the fringes of chinatown. the novelty of having the time and weather to walk all day rather took over, i'm afraid! but it took me into soho and what appears on my map as the 'cast-iron historic district', which i took to be a reference to the fire escapes which are on every other building in this area - i know i'm in new york when i see those! it's up there with yellow taxis, cops eating donuts out of paper bags and being told to have a nice day when you get your change in a shop.

if that wasn't enough for one day, i took a trip up the empire state building at sunset and walked the last six floors (up *and* down). no pix from that tho, as my night shooting is still fuzzy and the super-cool non-fuzzy shot straight down through the spotlight has dated itself wrongly, grr. still, a pleasingly wonky shot of a funky building and fire escapes isn't so bad really.