Well, I was coming home with some pals (two in the wagon's way back) from an era -
appropriate midnight showing of «Steppenwolf and Siddhartha» at the old Waverly Theatre in the West Village, if you must know, and was experimenting with Park Avenue as a route for late - night uptown travel, on account of all kinds of surprise traffic on other more direct routes back to the George Washington Bridge and northern New Jersey.