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Hypnotic Video Takes You Gliding Through Early Morning NYC
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Jen Carlson
Published Sep 17, 2013
Modified Sep 18, 2013
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Someone (update: Paul Trillo) took 41 photographs while traveling through the streets of New York City between the empty-ish hours of 3 and 7 a.m., and compiled them into this rather hypnotic and relaxing video for Nokia. We took the liberty of taking out their generic ambient music, and added our own. But since, rather confusingly, we only have MTV Party To Go compilations on our office computers, it was slim pickins. So just sit back, relax, and pretend you're cruising down a main drag in Manhattan in 1991, when Color Me Badd's "All 4 Love" was pumping over the radio airwaves.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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