In front of the Trump International Hotel is this huge
stainless steel, skeletal globe of the world.
The globe faces Columbus Circle (New York City). This steel globe
glistens appropriately but the hammered metal of the continents diminishes the
flare somewhat and it is not as effective as a smoothly polished surface might
have been. Furthermore, a viewer would expect the globe to rotate on its axis.
But it does not and the view, therefore, from the south side of Columbus
Circle, is always of Africa tilted upwards. At first glance, a visitor might
think that the globe was taken from the site of the 1964 World's Fair in
Flushing Meadows Park but that very similar but larger and better one was not
moved here.
The globe, of course, is a symbol of internationality in
accordance with the commercial interest of the hotel.
This postcard came from Сандалова (4 September 2015)
Postcrossing.
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