I'm a night person. I could be a night person anywhere, but New York City is definitely the best place to be nocturnal. I've been watching the moonrise in my window for the past few nights. It's as full and as bright as I've ever seen it, brighter than the streetlamps across the street or the TV flicker in my neighors' windows.

One thing about New York nights is that the sky turns a particular shade of purple which, although often emulated by other pollution-laden metropoli, can never be replicated. And the best time to look out at the city at night, say, from a bridge or tall building, is a night like tonight. Maybe a little cloudier than tonight, actually.

I'm not really a big naturalist or what have you, but there is something unique about that the colors of Gotham nights; they're non-transferrable. What I mean is that you can't take a perfectly-hued photograph of New York at night, nor do anything but approximate it in oils. It's Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in practice.

UPDATE: Huh. It seems there's a lunar eclipse tonight at 9:14pm. I swear I did not know this when I posted the story.