Metrotech Wite-Out

The weather was crummy – snowy and blowy – mid-afternoon. Maybe not exactly a Wite-Out, but it got me thinking… about the number of people who believe that Bob Dylan’s mother invented the correction fluid.

 

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Metrotech view out window

It’s a luxury when you can sit, have a coffee, and watch the world walk by.

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Metrotech tree

We like the un-Rockefeller-ness of the Metrotech tree: the picket fence that might collapse if one more kid leans on it, the imperfect shape, and the fact you can go up and touch the tree’s needles if you feel like it.

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The real Metrotech

We knew Metrotech to be many things: a place of office buildings, tech schools, public art, Tkts location, and a walkway between avenues. Now they are revealing its true personality, as a vortex of technology, architecture, and commerce. NYU bought the huge brown building in the background and is going to turn it into a science center. Jay Street is on the way up.

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April showers, finally

It’s been so dry everyone’s happy that it’s raining. We are not swearing (too much) that it’s windy and that umbrellas are being turned inside-out a couple times every minute.

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Take the scissors to your pants

If it’s warm and you can’t find your warm-weather clothes, you may want to pick up the scissors and improvise. Cut-offs have been around as long as blue jeans. Is this woman giving me an obscene gesture, btw?

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A Promise is a Cloud

This is Ohad Meromi’s sculpture from the show “A Promise is a Cloud.” At Metrotech until November 2012, the pieces, as described in the accompanying text, are about potential and transformation. In person, in artwork comes off better than in photographs. It’s a good show, so I’d recommend a detour if you are in the area.

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Sad sushi sign

This isn’t black and white, it just looks that way. What’s sad is that this restaurant was open; a few patrons and workers were moving around inside. Fresh fish, anyone?

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Metrotech tourists

Sooner or later, every part of Brooklyn will have tourists. I don’t know why I should be surprised to see a pack of them on the walkway near the F and A trains. The Marriott is nearby, and so is the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Balanced Cylinders on Jay Street

“Balanced Cylinders” by Paul Sisko (1984), sits on the Metrotech plaza in front of an NYU Polytechnic University building. The sculpture brings color to the space, but it strains to appear whimsical and spontaneous. I think of lipstick advertising.

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