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12/16/04 Touring More of the Old Kahn Mansion; Rich Moves More; Erica and Elana at work: 

This morning, one of the teachers I work with at the school in the old Otto Kahn mansion allowed me to take a look at the roof of the building. I believe it's a 5 or 6 story building.





The roof is fenced in quite well and serves as a playground for the kids. But in the distance can be seen much of the skyline from a unique upper east side perspective. Across Centeral Park, one can see the new twin towers of the AOL/Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle.


Looking straight across Central Park requires looking straight across the Resivoir, which clearly takes up almost the whol width of the park over here. There's the famous skyline of Central Park West on the other side.


Looking down, across 91st street, one can see the old next door neighbor's house. I don't know whose house it originally was, but in modern times, it's belongs to the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.


The internal staircase is extremely romanesque, and in some ways feels like walking through an M.C. Escher painting, with many stairs and thin archways above.



Later on, at the apartment, Richard is still packing away the Kitchen. All of his glassware is lined up on the kitchen counter.


And here he is, somewhat tired, it seems, pulling boxes of his stuff down to the car.


Towards the evening, I checked in to see how Elana and Erica were doing, setting up to tape a choral concert at the same school I was at this morning. This room used to be where Otto Kahn had musicians entertaining him. There's a gorgeous chandelier in the middle of the vaulted ceiling above. The accoustics are farily awesome, from what I can tell, and there are lutes going along the walls as a decorative element.


I hired the two of them to shoot the play in my absence because I had long ago agreed to accompany Natalie to her company's Christmas Party, which was at a swanky SOHO restaurant. All four of us met up at my apartment for dinner afterwards.