Only 3 Things can shut an NYC Street down & clear it devoid of ANY human existence like a tabula rosa wiped cleaner than any etcha sketch:
1. The President
2. A Natural Disaster
3. A movie filming a fake natural disaster
4. My Sister.
(pronounced seeester)
Case in Points #1 and #3, we've all seen on the tv.
Case in Point #2: Take a look at FDR Drive & Hurricane Sandy:
This is Franklin Delano Roosevelt in green:
(Yes, a popular outside-the-city-gridlock route connecting to major bridges (BQE, LIE))
Which on a typical rush hour day looks like this:
& on a normal day this:
But FDR Drive AFTER Hurricane Sandy looks like this:
(No Ukrainian Saxophone Players were hurt in this photo)
((That's just moy daragoy Mike being Mike))
No, it's not too late to donate to Hurricane Victims here.
WELL, Leave it to Amber to shut down Central Park Drive like she's Jay-Z and owns the town!
Aside: Most of you know CPW from the movie "Ghostbusters" as it is home to these famous towers:
It is also home to:
- The Dakota (where John Lennon was shot, Yoko still owns a flat)
- Strawberry Fields (mosaic memorial),
- Museum of Natural History,
- The late Tavern on The Green,
- Uno's Pizzeria,
- Nouveau riche celebrity apts. that aren't blue blood enough to get approved by 5th Ave Co-ops, (hey, how do you think the Uno's stays in business?;)
just to give you a bevy of other reasons it is highly trafficked.
CPW on a typical day looks like this:
BUT~ WHEN AMBER DECIDES TO
SHUT
IT
DOWN
Like Hova on the 12th round of "Paris" for the Staples center
(or 3rd round if you caught him watchin the throne in Greensboro)
CPW looks like THIS:
"How did she do that?!" you wonder befuddled and mesmerized...
Easy:
Benevolence.
In typical Amber fashion, she decides to enter a race (not having a practiced 1 single day), and when she makes a promise to "meet /wait for our friend at the starting line"
it's a promise!!!!!!!
The gun went off @ 9am.
...
German tourists walk by, see our bib #s and wish us "Goot lahk today gurlz!" along with others.
...
.....30mins later Amber is still waiting w/ a dumbstruck, antsy, impatient kid sister at the starting line.
ONLY when the race staff starts to tear down the starting line does Amber relent~
"Ok, I guess we've waited long enough," and we started the Central Park 5k!
Ohhh, the comments that came outta those race staff workers as too little matching 70's outfits red ponies bright eyed, bushy tailed came trotting along fresh as the 9:30am sun...
"Sleep in today girls??"
"Somebody forget to set their alarm ladies?"
& my personal favorite:
"On your 2nd lap already?!"
It did not matter.
I had never begazed an entirely empty as Pluto lifeless- seriously, when are the zombies poppin out- Central Park West street before!
THIS must be what it's like to be a billionaire,
The President, or Jay-Z.
THIS is what it's like to run down one of the busiest streets, CPW, as our personal private track.
My sister is powerful.
All because of her kindness.
But that wasn't enough- NOW she wanted to actually catch people.
Warning: When Amber decides to do something- ain't no stopping it!
(cuidado johnny)
And catch people we did:
~THE PHOTO FINISH~
Oh, you thought i was kidding about the matching 70's red terrycloth shorts outfits?
(Again, did you NOT read the "Warning" about Amber once she decides to do something?!)
Wups, just noticed photo says "mini 10k," whatever, you get the point.
Ain't no stoppin this A-Train.
just ask Ella
