Macy's Christmas Window Display

This is one of the many beautiful Christmas window displays at the 34th Street Macy's Store. 

Macy's Thanksgiving Day 8:30 PM

People were still filing into Macy's flagship store on 34th Street a half hour after the doors opened on Thanksgiving Day. 

There were several local, national, and international news crews out and about both inside and outside the store.

Turn Yourself Into a Macy's Balloon

This was fun: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade App for your smart phone. You can choose your outfit, take a picture of you or someone you want to make fun of, and create an elf balloon. You can then superimpose the elf balloon over any photo you take! So here is my balloon floating over the East River--that really IS the view outside my apartment. 

The Good Wife and Blue Bloods Filming Here This Week

This is happening three blocks down from my apartment building this week. 

Stumbling Upon Dinosaurs

Yep, just stumbled upon a display of these thousands-year-old fossils of ancient monsters while walking around Midtown Manhattan today--just a typical day in New York City. 

They were a display of the famous Bonham's Auction House, and they were actually for sale by a farmer in Montana who owned the land where they were discovered. However fascinating, they didn't sell for the reserve of $7-$9 million, so I guess they'll go back to Montana. Read more here: Fossils of Dueling Dinosaurs Fail to Sell at Auction.

Walking Tour: The Seagram Building

Located at 52nd and Park is the Seagram Building built in 1958. The Frommer's guide book I was using describes it as a building that "straddled the line between the too-American Frank L. Wright and the too-European Le Corbusier." 

It continues, "This building is such a success because of its meticulous attention to detail: dark bronze window mullions; a lobby that seamlessly blends interior space with the adjoining plaza; and a sheer facade of amber glass made possible by hiding all the building's 'guts' away from the street." 

The open plaza was controversial at first because of the possible loss of tax revenue, but it became so popular that new zoning regulations encouraged similar designs. This one was designed to discourage people sitting, whereas future plazas would welcome people with areas to rest.

New York Windows: Henri Bendel

The caricatures of famous illustrator Al Hirschfeld are made three dimensional in Henri Bendel's holiday windows.