NYC Photos

I'm finally getting around to posting the photos for "Two Old Bags Take on Manhattan."  I know you've been waiting breathlessly for these, but honestly, ever since I got home I AM A SLAVE TO MY HOUSE!  One thing after another.  What helps:  Thinking of it as an investment, instead of a house.  It's either that or slap it silly.

So!  Here's a taste of the trip Claudia M. and I took in September:

...despite a huge construction project in front of it, funded by David Koch,



 

 

...we found the front door

The Roof Garden at the Met:  A commissioned work by Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi on the walking surface

Close-up:   Qureshi floods a site with acrylic paint and then works it into "thickets of ornamental leaves...that evoke the luxuriant walled gardens of the Mughals" in the tradition of miniaturists who worked for the Mughal Court (1526-1857).  Three years ago he began using red acrylic in response to brutal bombings I Lahore so that his works become "a dialogue with life, with new beginnings and fresh hope..".

 

 

 

In the gift shop of a huge show on the worldwide textile trade between 1500-1800.  Every conceivable sort of textile is included, and the cross-pollination of textile techniques and traditions is fascinating.  No photos allowed of the exhibit, alas.

 

On the Lower East Side:

 

I resisted.

 

 

 

I did not.  A display of the scrumptious macaroons at "bisousciao" on Stanton Street



 

Street art

 

 

 

 

Ditto

 

 

...and more.  A Sign?  Bulletin board?  Collage?  All three?

 

 

 

The Lower Eastside Tenement Museum, 97 Orchard Street, where we took a tour.  Discovered in 1988 in the state it had been left in the early 1930s, each floor depicts the lives of immigrants who lived there.

 

 

 

Would you believe?  A Berkeley alum owns this restaurant near the Tenement Museum.  Good food!

 

 

 

 

Times Square at dusk.

 

 

A window in Times Square

 

 

 

Loved it.

  

 

 

 

Wave Hill, 25 minutes by train from NYC, a gorgeous property on the Hudson River.  More on this (have way more pictures)

 

 

At Wave Hill

 

 

 

Wave Hill House, built in 1843

 

 

Wave Hill artistry with color and textures

 

 

 

 

In the Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill: Blue Torso, Simone Lee, 2012.  Porcelain, cobalt, epoxy, terracotta, graphite

 

 

 

 

Close up of  Blue Torso

 

 

A former Broadway dancer/actress we met on the train from Wave Hill back to NYC.  We should see more shows,  she told us and suggested some.  She was knitting a "potato chip" pattern scarf for her daughter.

 

 

 

9/11 Memorial.  The curved, reflective building in the background is the new museum, not yet open

 

 

 

 

The 1776-foot 1 World Trade now under construction, the first and tallest of several buildings planned.

 

 

At the Statue of Liberty:  The torch flame removed and replaced in 1984. 

 

 

A chummy, if solemn, fellow subway passenger, who squrimed between us to get a seat

 

 

 

 

View from Robert restaurant in the Museum of Art and Design, looking at the spokes of Columbus Circle: Broadway (left) and Columbus (right)

 

 

 

 

The red fingernails are of a piece with the show

 

 

Leah and me in her new apartment in the West Village.  I'm holding the fabric my cousin Sue gave to her to bring to me when they met up six weeks ago at Victoria Station in London.

 

 

 

Display in a West Village shop

 

 

 

Along the High Line, a park/walkway built on an elevated freight line on the lower West Side

 

 

A Red Velvet ice cream sandwich from a High Line vendor.

 

 

Chaises can be rolled along the old railroad track

 

 

 

A visit to Zabar's to buy lunch for the plane ride home

 

 

TOBs:  Our second trip to NYC and only 38 years later...