And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
And don't you know that many, if not most, of those water tanks are not in use today. They were put up way back when the city water pressure was negligible.
I could never be comfortable there… ymmv…
ReplyDeleteI'd be distracted by all the life you could see with a pair of binoculars...
ReplyDeleteA little "bird" watching? I'd have the same problem.
DeleteI think that the green roofed skyscraper is the Woolworth Building.
ReplyDeleteI was on top of the Empire State building (I was a tourist just before covid) and what I noticed, looking down, was all the water tanks on the roofs.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't you know that many, if not most, of those water tanks are not in use today. They were put up way back when the city water pressure was negligible.
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