New York - saturday

[low_delta]

This was actually taken Friday night, after the rain quit. It's looking out Mike's and Jill's living room window.


Mike took us to Tompkins Square Bagels to get bagels for brunch. Best bagels in the city, I guess. Or right up there. We took them back, and ate them on their patio.






These buildings overlook the exclusive and expensive Grammercy Park. I like the eclectic architecture. The towers enclose water tanks.


This is Grammercy Park itself, in the heart of the Grammercy neighborhood. It is a private park. Only residents of the surrounding block can get in.


A couple of doors down from their place is a Greek Orthodox church.




Down the street from their apartment is Pete's Tavern. It has been a drinking establishment since 1864. O. Henry used to hang out there. It's right on Irving Place, which was named for Washington Irving, who was a friend of the guy who developed the neighborhood.


Jill

After brunch, Cyn and I went to the Museum of Modern Art.

The place is huge.


Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World".


There was a special exhibition of Gaugin.


This woman was waiting by the restroom, to take a photo of someone as she came out.


After MOMA, we took a walk through Central Park.




Then we took the subway back down, and got off by the Flatiron Building. I didn't even realize it until Cyn pointed it out.




Then we walked down to the restaurant we were to meet Mike and Jill at. This is Gay Street. It's just down the street from the Stonewall Inn.


It's a famous place. In 1969, a police raid on a gay bar caused a riot. It boggles my mind that during my lifetime, people were arrested for cross dressing and looking gay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots


We had dinner at the cozy Joseph Leonard.


I like the Moorish (and other) styles here.

Comments

[mellary4.livejournal.com]

I actually got a little anxious when I saw the rack with the bagels. I feel like they slacked them too close together and then have them by the steamy water to get too gooey and can just imagine them getting all stuck together and stretched out of shape when they work with them. I guess you can take the woman out of the bagel shop but......... I only worked in an Einstein's and they are the best bagels in New York so I'm sure they know what they are doing LOL!!!!!

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I like the black and whites of the people.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Really nice NYC scenes, Kevin. I like it when you take stealth photos of people.
:D
The building with the neo-moorish details looks out of place but it's pretty cool.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Well, they do look pretty close.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Most of the people shots looked best in b/w. Funny how that works.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was happy with the street shots I got this time.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I don't remember ever being... negative toward homosexuality. Not even when I was college age, which was only 20 years after Stonewall. So that's another reason why this boggles my mind.