"I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests." Yo-Yo Ma
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| A shop in the neighborhood..gotta love the UES! |
I’m happily settling into living in New York for the
weekends. Took a late BoltBus after work
on Thursday night, and surprisingly was not alone. Thank God I can sleep, or at least dose, most
of the way. Since it was a bit slow
going and the bus didn’t get into Manhattan til 1:30am, I treated myself to a
cab to our apartment. (Trying to limit
myself to cabs and stick to the MTA most of the time, though.)
Slow
to wake up on Friday, read the Boston Globe online with a cup of tea, Kris had
an appointment in the Sutton Place neighborhood midday so I met her and we
meandered all the way home along 3rd Avenue, poking around in the
shops, learning our neighborhood. And,
treating ourselves to a lovely gelato!
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| From their website |
Kristi’s old Roommate
was getting married that nght so she went home to get ready and I then headed
over to my market, Agata and Valentina.
It was the start of the Jewish Holidays and fascinating to watch all the
Ladies checking on their food orders.
There was a special on rotisserie chickens, and the nice young lad was
actually cutting them up for people, so I joined the crowd. What is better than that? I got some spinach to go with it, cheese to
compliment the crackers at home, and happily brought this week’s bounty home feeling
like quite a New Yorker. We both picked
at the chicken all weekend, and a very proud Mom moment happened when Kristi
told me that during the week she made a stock from the remains, and then a soup.
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| Grand Central Library from Linda Y on Yelp |
Kristi went off to the
Wedding and I very happily stayed home and started to watch the show Everyone
seems to love, Downton Abbey. Saturday I
woke up and went down to the Grand Central Library on 46th Street for a free yoga
class at 11:00am! Kristi had told me of
free business classes the Science, Industry, and Business Library offers (that
branch, is in Murray Hill on Madison @ 34th Street). While perusing the New York Public Library
website, I noted that there are many classes of all varieties, including these
free yoga classes!
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| From Lynn N on Yelp |
It
was a beautiful day so I decided to meander home, again. It took me much of the day to make my way up
to E79th Street, shopping along the way and picking up odds and ends for home. I even stopped at the coffee shop in my “old”
neighborhood, Orchard House Café on 1st and 58th. It was awesome. Once again, I happily bunkered down for the
evening when Kristi left for work.
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| The Lowline Park Exhibit |
Sunday
I headed down to the Lower East Side as I wanted to check out an exhibit of the
new Lowline Park. Much like the Highline
is a park on an old elevated railroad line that winds up the West side near the
Hudson River, the Lowline would be a subterranean park in an abandoned subway
station below Delancey Street. Cool concept.
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| A Lady Bather I encountered in Soho! |
I
then meandered the streets and headed over to Little Italy for the San Gennaro
Festival; and quickly meandered out. I
forgot the reason I don’t go to the North End Festivals in Boston. They are crazy crowded with lots of food I’m
trying to stay away from. My walking
took me into Soho where I decided to head back uptown.
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| Firenze from Yelp |
Did
some writing and decided to treat myself to dinner before heading home on a
late bus. I walked around the
neighborhood a bit and decided to try out
a little Italian place on 2nd and 82nd, Firenze. The construction of the 2nd Avenue
Train line is under way again (has been off and on for many years) and it is
really affecting many of the small businesses.
It was a real “old-fashioned” type of place where I had a delicious meal,
and was taken very good care of.
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