I love New York. I really do.
Sure, happier people with sun filled faces come from the west coast to visit and I see the point.
But once again, an ordinary day, running errands in the East Village, turned in to event, rivaling the Kentucky Derby and the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
Walking up 3rd Avenue I noticed the streets closed off by city police, slowly it occurred to me that I had heard President Obama was coming to New York today, speaking at the Great Hall at the Cooper Union, across the street from the new Cooper Union building, designed by Thom Mayne, one of my favorite buildings in New York. Anyway, making my way around and up Houston to do a bit of shopping at Whole Foods (Top 10 place in the city to find the man of your dreams), people were gathering at the barricades as if a procession of floats were about to pass by.
No floats today, but the onlookers would get a glimpse of America's great hope - Barack Obama.
Just as I was about to shoot in to Whole Foods a figure caught my eye. There up above Keith McNally's new hit pizzeria Pulino's - a woman, in a spring hat nearly fit for the Kentucky Derby, a smile on her face, and what I imagine to be a prosecco in her hand (11am!)- all smiles, with the best view in the city for watching the President arrive. It was a scene and I loved every second of it.
There - I've given you 1, 2, 3, 4, no 5! reasons to love New York.
Note: Click her to read President Obama's speech at the Cooper
Photo: Troy Chatterton
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