This archival post was migrated from an old Facebook album, so please excuse the choppy writing and odd formatting.
Looking east along 34th past the Manhattan Center and the New Yorker Hotel, with the Empire State Building in the distance.
Our hotel room at the New Yorker hotel, which has been recently renovated back to its original 1929 art deco style. We were in room 3341 on the 33rd floor. Down the hall was room 3327 where scientist Nikola Tesla lived his last 10 years as a recluse… before dying in the room in 1943.
The elevator area on our floor at the New Yorker. Only some floors have been restored to their original glory since the hotel reopened in 2000. The lobby is still being renovated.
Our view out the hotel window, which I have converted to black and white for no particular reason.
The street view from our hotel window.
The 34th St. skyline featuring the New Yorker hotel sign.
Inside La Bergamote Cafe on 9th Ave in Chelsea. Here we had some fantastic pastries, coffee and tea for breakfast. The cafe had a very authentic French vibe which was enhanced somewhat by the numerous French tourists who seemed to flock there. Actually, NYC was overrun by German and French tourists: the low dollar and high euro has made it a bargain destination for them.
Josie enters the Chelsea Market, which was definitely very touristy but still architecturally interesting. It was home to a mix of intriguing specialty food shops and less interesting souvenir stores.
Beneath a giant clock in the Chelsea Market.
Josie admires a funky blacklit fountain at the Chelsea Market.
A shadowy figure recedes down a torch-lit hallway in the Chelsea Market. Also, there is trash can.
The Food Network studios are in the Chelsea Market, as well as a gift shop selling many Food Network books and souvenirs of varying tackiness. We bought a mug.
We found the Food Network delivery area when we accidentally walked around the building, the wrong way.
The entrance to Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto’s restaurant in the Chelsea Market.
Old moorings protrude from the water near the Chelsea Piers. Once a passenger ship terminal, the Chelsea Pier was the intended destination of the Titanic; instead, the Carpathian docked there to unload the few survivors it had rescued. Today it is a great sports and recreation complex.
Josie admires the moorings at Chelsea Piers; the main complex is in the background.
Dogs of all sizes frolic in a fenced-in dog park near the Chelsea Piers.
The Good Humor man! With an old fashioned truck and uniform!
We snapped a photo of this building because it looked neat. We have now determined that it is the headquarters of IAC (InterActiveCorp) and was designed by architect Frank Gehry, who seems to design a new building every 3 days.
A random street shot somewhere around West 30th St and 9th Ave, I think.
The NYPD likes my pub, but they spelled it wrong.
A suspended sculpture at the Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. The sculpture is one of many odd variations of a character Murakami created called “DOB” which was featured throughout the exhibition.
A closeup view of a large Murakami sculpture in the lobby of the Brooklyn Museum.
Josie admires a Murakami sculpture in the lobby of the Brooklyn Museum, before we went in. Photos were not allowed in the gallery exhibition itself.
La Grappe Cafe in Chelsea, our Sunday breakfast spot. Average coffee, great French toast, free New York Times.
Taking a rest at the southeast corner of Central Park before heading to the Whitney, of which we took zero photos.
Resting very tired feet at the main entrance of the Brooklyn Museum.
Part of the Brooklyn Museum, as seen from the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Turtle on a rock at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Josie admires the Peony Monument at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Entering the “Japanese Hill and Pond Garden” at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
By the entrance fountains of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
A field of “Lillies of the Valley” in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
One of the many vast areas in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. We wandered for over an hour and had some some great sandwiches in the cafe, but still didn’t see half of the gardens.
A duck poses patiently for me in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Giant chive-like flowers in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Josie beneath one of the many overgrown arches at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Taken at the MoMA in an area lit with a very strange glow that made me feel nauseous for about an hour. But the photo looks cool…
In front of a freaky abstract sculpture in the MoMA.
“Head of a Sleeping Woman” by Picasso in the MoMA. I don’t usually take photos of paintings in galleries, but this time I did.
Two women contemplate Claude Monet’s Waterlillies in the MoMA.
Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in the MoMA.
Josie’s shirt nicely matches Andy Warhol’s famous “Soup Can” prints.
Grimaldi’s Pizza, beneath the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn. We planned to eat here, but lining up for hours for pizza did not seem like the best use of our short time in NYC, so we just snapped photos instead.
Assorted Brooklyn hipsters wait for pizza outside Grimaldi’s.
The Manhattan skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge, as seen from the DUMBO area of Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Bridge… on the Brooklyn side, with the Manhattan Bridge behind it.
On the tarmac at JFK boarding our flight home. The coolness of climbing the stairs does not make up for the bounciness of smallish commuter planes, which I am beginning to hate.