After spending the day watching Sandy on the news yesterday, most of us here in Manhattan's West 70s were left feeling fortunate. Aside from a few gusts of wind, and a smattering of rain, we didn't see too much weather at all.
Judging from the news this morning it was obvious the storm was far worse than we could see from our windows here, so I went out as the sun came up to see what Sandy wrought.
From Central Park West, through the park, down to midtown, to see that dangling crane at One57, and up along the East River it's an amazing cross-section of what had happened throughout the night.
When I left my apartment at just before 7:00 a.m. this morning it looked like the Upper West Side of Manhattan had been spared
But a block away in Central Park it was a totally different story
The awning from an entrance somewhere, had blown up Central Park West and lodged itself behind the wall to the park
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