New York City walk8

Macy's stables, 8th Avenue between 147th and 148th Street. I don't know why they had stables here- Macy's is way down in Herald Square, on 34th and Broadway.

The Canyon of Heroes. This is the southern end of Broadway. I love looking up into Manhattan from here- the beginnings of the tall, narrow, dark urban canyons. This is where they give the ticker tape parades- like this one, on the right, for golfer Bobby Jones in 1926. That curving building on the right, below, is the Standard Oil Building. A friend of mine pointed out how the bottom of the building curves to conform to the contours of the old cow-path streets of the Dutch, while the top of the building (with the scaffolding) twists to align itself with the rigid grid of upper Manhattan.