2nd Avenue and 50th Street

Last night whilst walking around with a friend in the Upper East Side, I swear we passed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. He's from Minnesota, you know. My friend and I had a couple drinks at Smörgås Chef, a favorite Scandinavian cafe of mine (with three locations!). We sat and watched as cops, often three per corner or more, halted traffic for diplomatic motorcades from this week's big U.N. meeting -- the one that the president is at. I took this picture of the street with the Citicorp Building in the background when we left.