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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Baseball and the NYC Weather

OCTOBER 9, 2005 --

Heavy rain in New York City, October 8, forced the fourth game between the Angels and the Yankees to be postponed to October 9, which was a gray, damp, dismal day, not particularly good baseball weather.

And this is only the start of post-season play. The league playoffs are next, with the World Series to follow.

But without the Boston Red Sox, defeated in three straight games by the Chicago White Sox. O, to be in Chicago an evening in late October for a World Series
game?

Weather, the first week-end in October was much nicer.

LPR offers some photos taken outside the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Fifth Avenue to assure visitors that the sun does shine over Manhattan on Sundays.

No, the Met has not been encased in cloth by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. It is undergoing a facelift. The not-enshrouded glass facade at rear of the museum, offers a mirror-like image of Central Park foliage, which has yet to turn autumnal.


Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. This photo was taken outside Yankee Stadium during the 2003 World Series, a chilly, late October evening, LPR recalls.


The Fifth Avenue sidewalk outside the Met on a sunny Sunday.


Artists take this opportunity to show their works.


Shana looking at the art on display.


The front of the Met, which was not encased by Christo and Jeanne- Claude who brought The Gates to Central Park eight months ago.


Remembering The Gates from early 2005.


The glass facade at the rear of the museum, reflecting Central Park trees, which have not yet turned color …


… unlike this tree on Old Route 8 between Winsted and Torrington, Connecticut.


A sidewalk performer, with puppet, outside the museum.