Looking Up On 34th Street

There's a passage in She And I: A Fugue where the author describes standing on the sidewalk, looking up at Ayn Rand's window on 34th Street in Manhattan:

The doorman came out, asked if he could help - I asked, as if the most natural thing, if I was pointing to Mr O’Connor’s. He moved my finger a little. I walked across 34th to the bus kiosk, near Lexington, leaned against it.

I had stood in he same spot, for similar reasons, more than once. But I had been there a few years earlier.

Her writing inspired
a desire to see
the everyday life behind
her mind's giant leaps.