Thursday, August 14, 2008

Looking at Times Square

Times Square, that place where Broadway and Seventh Avenue are one surrounded by neons, bland attractions and too many tourists, looks mighty interesting from 43rd towards Eighth Avenue.

There, by the old New York Times building, you're walking on a pretty empty street from which you see that endless stream of tourists walking to-and-fro, going around in circles, never straying from their path. Must stay in Times Square.

If you manage to go pass them, leaving the circulating masses, you'll soon reach another fairly unpopulated street (43rd between Sixth and Fifth) and wonder, what the hell was that!

Times Square is a fish bowl: people move around it forever but never get out.