There were scores of formal events centered around yesterday's solar eclipse, but I particularly enjoyed seeing spontaneous groups of neighbors or people who worked in the neighborhood gathering at random street corners like this one at Third Avenue and 85th Street. Of course there were those who dismissed the event as overhyped as well as those saying it was the most awesome natural spectacle they had ever seen. B ut even the naysayers should admit that there are very few times when thousands of New Yorker stop what they were doing, stay still for two hours and are fixated on something other than their smart phones and laptops
The photos I've collected are self explanatory except perhaps for the young lady casting at the shadow of her interlaced fingers. She was giving me an impromptu lesson of what I could see through the special eclipse glasses she loaned me. to look up at the sun
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