{"id":1811,"date":"2010-10-26T21:34:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T02:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2011-02-19T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:11:45","slug":"mans-achievements-on-a-shrinking-globe-in-an-expanding-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/mans-achievements-on-a-shrinking-globe-in-an-expanding-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"“Man’s Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe”"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n One of the consequences of living in a city as massive and historically rich as New York is that it’s easy to feel a little overwhelmed at times. Which is why it’s so nice when once a year Open House New York<\/a> lifts back the curtain and opens up the inner workings of the city to the curious. At heart New York is a friendly place, and OHNY does a good job expressing that in a frantically popular weekend (so popular that the tour of the in-progress 2nd Avenue subway tunnel filled up near instantaneously) . A thoroughly pleasing free weekend began with a trolley tour of the remaining structures from the 1964 Word’s Fair in Flushing, Queens. Where we found out about Robert Moses’ last folly and that there is such a thing as an urban park ranger, and they are in fact very nice.<\/p>\n