Taken on Park Ave between 47th and 48th Street, outside JPMorgan Chase office tower. With heightened security since the attempted car bomb in Times Square, there are now barriers preventing one from entering the building and both private security guards as well as police. I had been standing there for about 5 minutes waiting for someone I was meeting to come out of the building. It was a gorgeous day with an almost cloudless blue sky. I looked up and with my wide angle lens on decided this would make a nice shot. A very nice security guard came up and asked if I was associated with Chase. I said no. He said “then can I ask you not to take pictures?” Of course, I told him he couldn’t ask me that, that I was just a guy taking a picture in the street. He said he was just asking as a favor. He was so polite and nice about it he made me feel churlish for stridently defending my abstract civil right.
