Some of the high points of New York City so far.
Three new Met button colors of the sixteen possible!
I couldn’t get out to the Bronx Zoo, so I went down to Zuccotti Park instead.
Just nice!
Central Park.
A snack on exiting the Met.
I will have to come back in February, if I can. Prokofiev’s R&J at NYC Ballet and a Chinese troupe are coming!
The images inside the Met Opera on the right and left are Chagall.
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Looks great! :) See any of the OWS job-less hippies…err…protesters?
$1 for water? What are we coming to…
I’m just leaving town today. I managed to make it to Holy Mass in the EF at Holy Innocents yesterday. The Gregorian schola and the Low Mass (my first) were sublime.
What did you see at the Met? Opera envy is blind….
“I’ve been walkin’ these streets so long
Singin’ the same old song
I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
Where hustle’s the name of the game
And nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
There’s been a load of compromisin’
On the road to my horizon
But I’m gonna be where the lights are shinin’ on me
Well, I really don’t mind the rain
And a smile can hide all the pain
But you’re down when you’re ridin’ the train that’s takin’ the long way
And I dream of the things I’ll do
With a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe
There’ll be a load of compromisin’
On the road to my horizon
But I’m gonna be where the lights are shinin’ on me”
~”Rhinestone Cowboy” -Glen Campbell
Sorry New Yorkers, but I can’t stand being somewhere with lots of people…like downtown. Sure, it’s fun once in a while, but give me the wide open spaces.
$1.00 for water is cheap… Unless it’s not bottled. In Canada, I’ve seen bottled 590 ml bottles go for as high as almost $3!!!
One dollar is very cheap…I have to buy water to drink daily and the bottles are one euro, which equals 1.43 USD
Yes. Water is not cheap. Still, it is one of the comedies of human nature that the most abundant natural resource should cost so much! I’m going to get me a Big Berkey:)
Well…if you HAD made it to the Bronx Zoo…you could have visited Sr. Johnson across Southern Blvd. at Fordham. :) Just sayin’. Though, the presence of orthodoxy on that campus would probably have toppled the tower on Keating Hall and caused the Jebbies in Loyola-Faber Hall to go running for their lives…;)
One presumes at Zucotti Park, you approached from upwind?
aaah… nothin’ like a hot dirty-water-dog on a cool autumn day…
Can’t see from the picture if it’s the same spot but a few years back, the prime hot dog vendor spot in front of the Met was auctioned off with the winner taking the spot for $54,000.00 a month. I believe he defaulted within the year.
Fr. – that looks like ketchup on your hot dog – for shame!
Drink the tap water and save the buck. NY is said to have the best water in the country. At 8 glasses a day I would go broke on a buck a bottle. Glad it was nice weather for you Father.
Ketchup . . . yum!
I love New York! Christmas is the best time to be there.
Matlock and my parents would’ve loved that (grilled?) hotdog. Sitting on one of the empty (!) benches on that beautiful walk in Central Park in the evening … and good views of the flag and the Met, even a book dept. at Zuccotti Pk. Fun to see the pictures. I like the West 60’s and the coffee kiosk with tables at Columbus Circle corner of the Park.
Looks like you had a great time in the Big Apple, Father Z! At least the weather was cooperative…..
I’ll echo Kerry’s comment: did you approach Zucotti Park from the upwind? Looks like the OWS idiots are pretty entrenched….