So we crashed at the company's production branch in Chelsea area. The weather is so bitingly cold that it was impossible to walk for the fragile being we were. The NY office is so artist lofty~ so nice! By the second day I finally got used to the cold and able to walk everywhere by myself. The bathroom walls are painted with grafitti!

The client's office locates at this bubbly Blade-Runner looking building designed by Peter Max, very 60s and fun~

Empire State Building from my 9th floor hotel window, day and night~ (Would have been great movie advertisement to put a King Kong statue up there right now :D). Our hotel was in the Garment district where we are surrounded by wholesale werehouses. It's a messy and busy area. I stayed for 3 days 2 nights.

This first time was quite a shock because the weather was abnormally, bitterly cold! And soon we found out that the city is under the pressure of a potential MAJOR subway/bus strike that would have crippled the city in an unimaginable chaos...they threatened to carry it out on late Thursday (which would be my 2nd day). I've been following the news as close as I could. The mayor has already planned a emergency plan which would have involved sectioning the entire city into couple zones, and strict rules on a mandatory 4 passengers in each car or else no passing to another zone. There was police in every corner every night, total ready in case the strike happens. Turns out the union was willing to delay their deal until Monday...I hope it won't come down to such unfortunate result. With subway+bus system already working, the streets of NY are already heavily flooded with people and sanity-challenging traffic jam, cars are already always honking in rage, and getting a taxi is already not that easy. I just can't imagine what would happen if there's really a strike...