Sculpture For Living

Every time I walk through Astor Place, I take a picture of one or both of the reflecty buildings there. There are just no bad angles! I'm going to have to start naming these posts by the date.

(It's true this isn't in the East Village, but you can see it from there!)

Of course, the one above-ground electric wire in the whole of Manhattan does hang just north of it! What are you gonna do?

Sculpture for Living.

The really cool thing about these two buildings is that when you look at them, you don't see the buildings themselves. You see multi-faceted reflections of the buildings, and sky, surrounding it.

It works when it's surrounded by concrete and brick buildings — a whole city of buildings like this would be weird! And maybe schizophrenic.

#eastvillage #astorplace #sculptureforliving

Reflecty Building Again

The reflecty buildings over at Astor Place are just extremely cool! This is another view of the building I posted the other day, looking East:

Reflecty building.

This is another building I noticed today, across the street (southward) from the one above. You can see the Carl Fisher building to the right:

Another reflecty building.

I wonder what one reflecty building looks like reflected in the other? It must be like a house of mirrors!