✉ River Alight

TODAY'S TRAVEL PHOTO OF YESTERYEAR: 

One of the reasons why New York City has this filmic quality to it, is perhaps because of how the city is lit. The sunbeams reflect in glass gilded sky-scrapers, casting a gleam back and forth. And with added luster from the cars that move by, there is always a play of light. When I looked towards Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge on that fine summer's morning, the city shone gloriously, setting the river alight. Blinding me at first, and then, as if light could fall nearly silent, spoke in tones that I have seen before in photographs by Steven Meisel and heard in songs by Sondheim. There is light that inspires.                  

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