GM Building - rooftop view

When showing off conference room views this had to be included. How does anyone do any work there I wonder, I would be too busy gazing out the window to do anything if it was me. Any more supreme views will be included for your enjoyment....

Talking of great views this is the view from a GM office building conference room

Let's face it if this is the view from your conference room, you own the world and if you don't you should ! Many of these hedge fund guys and power moguls are spoilt rotten and probably struggle when they leave the office and the views are no longer perfect. I guess that's why they create standing up sleeping braces, they can work longer hours and just pop off to sleep outside the entrance of their offices. Must get a bit lonely though one would think.

Believe it or not the next day I was meeting a hedge fund type guy in his office

This was the view from his conference room. No wonder he didn't want to bother commuting home when this is the view he has. Perfect view of the park.

He wanted a meeting I wanted to stare out the window.

"Were you there all night, outside Macy's with your sleeping standing up brace?" I asked him, nosely.

"That wasn't me," he lied, I totally recognized him and he knew it too." Now please my time is limited can we get back to our meeting and can you pay attention and stop gazing out the window even if it is a $10 million dollar view, you must have seen the park before surely?"

He droned on arrogantly and I tried to focus but when he showed me out he winked at me and asked me in a confidential whisper, "How was Peter Gabriel and the 54 piece New Blood orchestra , I read in the Times the concert was fab."

I knew it was him. But the elevator had arrived so I had to tear myself away from him
and the view.....47 floors later I was back on street level.

I looked up and all over the top of the buildings were his buddies watching he did not go playing hookey with me at Peter Gabriel.

There was lots of frozen men looking down at me from the rooftops of the buildings around the park.

I shouted up at one of them, " Mr Gormley Artman Clone, welcome to NY from the UK. What do you think of the new lib dem guy Nick Klegg, is it, I hear he is the next Obama. I hear he was great on the tv debate you guys had and made the other candidates look very stiff, probably something you can relate to, being a statue and all. Two questions, if you are so good at Mountain Pose are you guys vegetarian statues, as I am finding more and more men who live on a diet of chicken and salad and it is a real turn off.

Secondly when you come down from the roofs of the Madison Square garden office buildings, do you fancy coming to a Jivamukti yoga class and you could show off your mountain pose to some hot yoga chicks like me?"

But no answer was the loud reply. These art men either were very rude or had been told to ignore all advances from forward New York woman like myself and stand still and aloof in their mountain pose, another frozen Buckinghan Palace type non communicator.

Resigned, I trundled off to the concert with an old boyfriend who had called out the blue as he was in town. Enough time wasted on these frozen guys I need a nice friendly chap who answers questions, even if he is not quite as mysterious or cool.


-- Posted from my iPhone

Did you have a long day at work, no need to answer.

I am not inviting you to Peter Gabriel as you look pretty busy perfecting your yoga mountain pose and all your pals are watching you from the rooftops .

You look pretty fit , must be the outdoor life.

He said nothing. Another non communicator, but as he is a statue to start with there was no point in taking it personally this time.

Another frozen man, heepers, jeepers, what's come over this town?

But this guy is really art this time. It is all the Anthony Gormley ( I think) art men who are dotted on the top of buildings all over Madison Square Garden and 23rd Street.

Maybe he is another hedge fund guy who abandoned his briefcase and suit and umbrella to simply stand in yoga mountain pose and just let go. Let go of it all.

Sir, your mountain pose is perfect you are still as a statue , well it probably helps if you start out as a statue. ( Duh).

Here he is from the back

His head, neck are held up, he has a little wooden seat and his legs are supported and best of all an umbrella above his head in case it rains. Is this the new 21st century way of living? If he doesn't need a home he probably has no interest in a girlfriend. Another New Yorker who won't commit. Ah well, I walked off a tad dejected he would not talk to me, but at the same time I understood he was sleeping standing up so a bit too busy to bother with the likes of me.

"Er, excuse me poor tired lad, if you can't face the commute home and I don't blame you, I have a very soft couch not far from here in the East Village

You don't need to sleep on the street, I know things are tough these days but this contraption of yours seems very extreme. Plus you are far too well dressed to plead poverty , you probably run a $4bn fund.

Well at least you seem comfortable, you are suspended in perfect balance and don't need to hold your briefcase it is attached to the brace. You just lean back and let go. How long do you plan on resting at this street corner, I am going to Peter Gabriel at Radio City if you fancy that for a break from having a break ? I am glad your neck is cushioned but what if it rains , do you ever move or try another street corner?

But he was like one of these guards outside Buckingham Palace he was alive but totally frozen and non communicative( actually like many blokes I try to date , but way better dressed.)

Did you ever feel so tired, so drained from a long day at the office, that you just had to STOP

This sexy hot young hedge fund type is NOT a performance artist. He is modelling a special brace that holds you up and enables you to perch on the street with your briefcase and sleep or rest without having to shlep home.

You look at him, hoping he will ask for your number but he perches outside Macys surrounded by Japanese camera men sleeping or totally frozen, maybe meditating, who knows behind these shades. The camera team said he is sleeping and proving a point as rents are so high he can avoid them by this brace as it allows him to sleep on the go! Brillaint. But where does he change, shave or brush his teeth, I want to know.