My Trip to Google (November 21, 2025)

These are photos from my fieldwork expedition to the Google office space in lower Manhattan (near 8th avenue and 15th street). I was invited by an old NYU student (a syntactician naturally), who now works as a hotshot programmer for Google. I accepted with the goal of finding out as much as I could about the Google office space and culture. I was not disappointed. Below is the huge neon sign you see when you first enters the building. The only way to enter the building is by invitation, and even then you need a government sponsored ID. Without it, they will turn you away.

 

We headed right to the cafeteria. They had a wide range of standard NYC food, including Indian food, middle eastern, a barbecue, a salad bar. I am working with a low carb diet now, but I had no problem finding tasty dishes. The best part -- it is totally free. You just take your food, and eat. Below is a picture of me and Ross (the syntactician/progammer) eating. I of course used this opportunity to pitch my idea for a Noam Chomsky Award to Ross, hoping he could figure out how to make Google sponsor it.

Afterwards, we headed to a terrance on the same floor to look out over the city. Beautiful views!

Below is yours truly enjoying the sunshine.

Apparently in the photo below, one can see Bobst library, just to the left of the white building. 

Then we went to the top floor to look out over the city.

I did some fieldwork to find the workers at play.

And to top it all off, there was a huge Lego wall, where you could go and grab some Legos to play with.