Tag: New York City
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Lincoln Center
My Darling B wanted to see Lincoln Center at night, so we did: Next time we go, we’ll have tickets to see the ballet and we’ll wear fancy clothes. Read.
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Bicycling across the Brooklyn Bridge
Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the items on our Tourist To-Do List, but how to do it was up for grabs until the day we showed up at the South Street Seaport for a tour and spied Blazing Saddles, a vendor that rented bicycles by the hour. Each came equipped with a map Read.
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I eat paint
Appropos of nothing: Read.
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The Curse of Bleecker Street
Beware the Curse of Bleecker Street! This is an age-old New York City curse that will strike while you’re trying to find a place along Bleecker, or if you have to cross Bleecker, or even while you’re walking down a street that sounds like “Bleecker.” You will be mysteriously overcome by a desire to walk Read.
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readjustment
We’re back from New York. It may take a while for My Darling B to adjust. “It’s so quiet here! No car horns, no rumbling as the trains go by, and there’s nobody walking down the street!” First thing she asked for when we got back was coffee. No matter where we went in New Read.
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Abingdon Square
If you’re a pigeon in the Chelsea area of New York City (because so many pigeons read this blog, right?), don’t trust the guy with a box who throws bread crumbs to you in Abingdon Square! While I was sitting on a park bench with My Darling B Wednesday morning, a man passed by us Read.
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scofflaw
<img src="https://thisisdrivel.com/blog/2012/images/nycchristopher.jpg" align="left" width="300" B jumped a subway turnstile yesterday! Can you get a more authentic New York experience than that? And it only happened because we weren’t paying attention. We had to catch the train at the Christopher Street station and went down the wrong set of stairs, ending up on the platform for Read.
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Architecture tour
On Tuesday, we took a boating tour all the way around the island of Manhattan. (That’s not the boat we did it in. It’s only a cool-looking boat that got in the snapshot I was taking of the Brooklyn Bridge. I took photos of the boat we went in, but they were really boring, so Read.
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Sophie Blackall
Brooklyn artist Sophie Blackall’s drawing of subways riders charmed me the moment I laid eyes on it. Read more about Ms. Blackall and how she came to draw art for the MTA on her blog, here. Read.
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A Slice of Brooklyn
If you’re ever out this way and you’ve always wanted to do a little sight-seeing in Brooklyn, a good way to do it would be to book a tour with A Slice of Brooklyn. Not only do they make sure you have a lot of fun, they feed you some pretty good pizza, too. We Read.
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