NYC Food

Eating in New York City meant diner comfort food, pizza, Italian, and desserts. And soup or salad when you’re at the zoo or a museum and there’s nothing else convenient. My most adventuresome meal was the Ukrainian meatballs in mushroom gravy. 

 

Diner bacon cheeseburger

French café berry tart

NY pepperoni pizza

Caesar chicken salad

Fro-yo: white cake batter, cookies n cream, and Dole Whip with cookie dough toppings

Ukrainian meatballs in mushroom gravy with hashbrowns, broccoli, and a side of applesauce

Gelato

Corn chowder but not the creamy kind

Hotdog, strangely with added cheese

Challah French toast and Canadian bacon

Italian baked four-cheese pasta with bread

 

Day out in Brooklyn

My friend was kind enough to take me around her neighborhood of Brooklyn on my last day in NY. I hope I have that kind of energy a few decades from now. We walked over the Brooklyn Bridge so I could see things from that perspective, then went to the Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum. I rushed back to Times Square to see the Moulin Rouge musical – it was amazing and had additional recent pop music mixed in since the film to make it even more fun. It was a sweet final taste of NY!

 

Brooklyn Bridge

Skyline from the Bridge

Interesting acronym here - DUMBO stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

Boats out

Checked out the brownstone buildings

Dogwalkers are for real

Great architecture and bustling city life

Gorgeous Brooklyn Public Library – so culturally enriched even just at the entrance

Library is trying to go for a more bookstore vibe to attract readers

Library space looked inviting

Brooklyn Museum had mummies and an interesting explanation of how recent feminist scholarship has shown that some women were honored with male names temporarily to trick the gods, something like that, that it wasn’t a typo like previous scholars thought

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago – a feminist art display from the 1970s – a reimagining of a dinner party with famous women across history (eg Artemisia Gentileschi). Each place setting is customized to a particular woman, and they get more elaborate the closer they get to modern times.

Artemisia Gentileschi place setting

Mary Wollstonecraft place setting

Emily Dickinson place setting

Another beautiful Tiffany stained glass

Classic George

Love that Romanticism

Classic Abe

Kehinde Wiley’s modern take on Napoleon (explanation follows)

Brooklyn Museum

More brownstone buildings

Moulin Rouge musical – amazing and had additional recent pop music mixed in since the film

Downtown was happenin’ at night

 

Day Out in Manhattan

My friends took me around the neighborhoods in Manhattan to a Ukrainian restaurant for brunch, little shops and the big bookstore called The Strand, gelato, then the Staten Island Ferry to see the iconic Statue of Liberty. As night fell, I went to a Free Music Monday concert at a local church, where the Scandinavian band Dreamers' Circus was fabulous, and then snow was falling as I left. 

 

Veselka Ukrainian restaurant

Veselka Ukrainian restaurant

Veselka Ukrainian restaurant

Little hole-in-the-wall shops around the neighborhoods

Library

Fancy architecture

Homes around the block

Homes around the block

National Arts Club fancy interior

National Arts Club exterior

Labor protests re Petco

Statue of Liberty

Staten Island Ferry

Skyline as night fell

Free live music with Dreamers’ Circus band from Scandinavia - a blend of traditional Nordic music with new sounds

Snowing!