york, especially manhattan, is a walking city. you can walk around from place to place pretty efficiently. sometimes more efficiently than taking a taxi. i believe this is the corner of 6th avenue and 48th street, 47th street. a police officer directing traffic. 6th after through was shut down today for a street fair, a street festival. that's why the barricade are up and you don't see traffic on that main artery that bisects manhattan north to south. we are told the power out and started at fifth avenue which is a block to the east. but then you see down, looking up sixth avenue toward central park, not many vehicles there, and most of of those on the road are emergency vehicles. the traffic lights continue to remain dark. some of the office buildings have lights. whether those are the result of