Lunch atop a skycraper!

This sculpture might look familiar to some of you. It depicts the famous photograph, “Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper” photographed by Charles C. Ebbets. I took it outside my bedroom window. The original photograph is right below. 

To be honest, I took this picture a few months ago but I really wanted to share it with all of you. I was just looking outside my bedroom window when I suddenly saw this sculpture. I recognized it as this iconic photo so I immediately ran to my camera and snapped a shot of it. The side of the truck said the sculpture was on its way to Rockefeller Center which makes sense since the photograph was taken during construction of the RCA building at Rockefeller Center. It depicts eleven men eating lunch on a girder, hundreds of feet in the air. The photograph appeared in the New York Herald Tribune. I think this photo is so iconic because admist all the dangers and hazards the workers faced, they seemed happy/proud to be doing it. Even though it wasn’t the original photograph, it was amazing to see the sculpture right before my eyes, almost like I was a part of the moment. Who knows, maybe next time you look out your bedroom window, something unexpected might show up!  

I took this picture when I went to Hudson River Park over the weekend. While there were other interesting public arts around the park, this stuck out to me the most. I saw this aura of sunlight coming through the clouds. It formed a radial array of light in the sky. It was  so beautiful that it was a work of art on its own. And people say NYC doesn’t have nature…