Sometimes the timing is just right

Jane's Carousel - The Brooklyn Bridge Park

We were the only two on it.  http://www.janescarousel.com/

Brooklyn Bridge behind

$2.00 a ride

Housed in a beautiful glass  pavillion.  On warm days the huge panes of glass open.

Steve Jobs - MAC store in Soho

Mario Batali's Eataly - 5th Avenue at 23rd

WOW!!!  We think this may have been our best meal in NYC.  It's the largest artisanal Italian food and wine marketplace in the world.  Here's the description from their web site:

The marketplace located at 200 Fifth Avenue (the former Toy Building) is the city's ultimate destination for food lovers to shop and taste and savor – an extravaganza includes a premier retail center for Italian delicacies and wine, a culinary educational center, and a diverse slate of boutique eateries. This gourmand's delight features cured meats and cheeses, fruits and vegetables, fresh meats, fresh fish, handmade pasta, desserts and baked goods and coffees.

We ate at Le Verdure.  It shouldn't surprise us that this ranked high for our most enjoyable eating.  We like fresh food, vegetables, prepared simply, but we love interesting flavors and surprises.  His description of thismenu is "...focus on flavor, not fussiness."

I don't know how many "boutique eateries" there are in this place, but I walked by Fish, Meat, a Raw Bar, Desserts and there's more.  There's bar seating where you can watch the preparation or you can table dine.  It's all very casual and in spite of 50,000 sq feet, it's warm and beautiful.

I mean really. 

This was the cheese and meats counter. 

Adding the juices

There is a small market place for colorful kitchenware

Leave room.

Chocolate and Vanilla Gelato, sitting across the street from Eataly.  The flatiron building is just to the left. And where else can you find cafe tables and chairs in the middle of an Ave. 

Right.

Prime Burger on E. 51st

You just have to come here to understand it.  This seat is sort of like a high chair, except it's not high.  The "tables" swing out, you sit down and the table swings back into place.  Food is served.  But it's more than the unusual seating that should get you here. And not just that it's been in this location since 1938. The service is perfection. As Dad said to our waiter, "I like your style."  Food is made like I would make it at home.  A tuna melt that's not a mile high - the right proportion of tuna to bread. 

The Russian Tea Room and Carnegie Hall

Dinner first at the Russian Tea Room.

Cheesecake with shaved white chocolate and berries. 

Carnegie Hall - getting seated.

Valery Gergiev, entering on the left, conducted an all Tchaikovsky program with the Mariinsky orchestra.

                                                                               

The City in Black and White

Dog Days



We always dress alike.



Why should I walk when this guy will carry me?



You can do it.

Brando, from Piano across America





I'm big, but I'm kind of dopey.









I wish my legs could reach the ground.







                               Please stop petting that other dog

              

Woody

We saw Relatively Speaking at the Brooks Atkinson yesterday.  It's 3 one acts all directed by John Turturro.  The writers are Elaine May, Ethan Coen and Woody Allen.  It's in previews so Woody Allen was there.  Still a work in progress for the director, writers and actors.  Pure pleasure for us. 

Williamsburg, the New York Waterway and a matinee - what a day.

Welcome to Kay's home in Williamsburg.  The elevator opens directly into her living room.  This is living.

Kay and Bella.

Ring us down to the lobby.  OK, I'm in a duster.  It was 85 degrees that day. 

A wonderful Sunday breakfast.  We got there before 11AM; before "the kids" roll out of bed.

Baked eggs and cheese with a side of savory grits. Yum.

Once a horse stable.  Now a beer hall.

Just blocks from Kay's house is the Brooklyn Flea.  These donuts, by Dough Donuts,  are the real deal.  Toasted coconut with caramel glaze was a start.   There are a few flea locations and this one is in Williamsburg, right on the East River. 

 A few quick scrapes from the block of ice, a squirt of grape and who cares if it's 85 degrees.



Waiting the the ferry and saying goodbye to Kay.  $4.00 and 10 minutes later, we'll be on East 34th Street, heading to the theatre district for our 3PM matinee.

The best $4.00 we spent and so much faster than the subway or a cab.  Williamsburg to East 34th in about 10 minutes. 









There are 40 mounted police in NYC.  He was in the theatre district.  I guess he likes plays. He was a good nuzzler.