Manhattan Memory

I recently stumbled across this photo and it immediately transported me back to a time in the late 1990s, when I worked as a financial contractor for a publisher in midtown Manhattan and commuted via Amtrak from Boston.

The photo captures my circumscribed work week from noon Monday to noon Friday: the office building I worked in, Penn Station, and my hotel. This was before the old Post Office (the beautiful classic building on the left) became the Moynihan Train Hall, so when my train arrived, I exited Penn Station at street level from beneath Madison Square Garden (the round building) and walked across Thirty First Street to my office somewhere within that stack of buildings at the bottom, right across from the Garden. After work, I checked into my hotel (the white building at the top left).

The job was challenging and fun, and having all of Manhattan to walk after work was wonderful.