Outside the Wholefood Grocery Shop and Cafe at Union Square
Top of the Empire State Building from Union square
Union Square is a mad shopping and meeting precinct - a cross between Circular Quay, Federation Square and Chadstone!
Saturday morning at Dean and Deluca's on Broadway and Prince.
Dean and Deluca's
A yummy selection, mint chocolate cookies, caramel squares, oreos and vanilla and raspberry macarons
Fruit and veg and pumpkins
Raspberry - the best macaron ever
Vanilla - the best yet
Amazing gold decoration on this place
Starbucks are everywhere but the iced coffee and iced tea are very nice on a hot day
Blick's Art Materials - mega wonderful art shop
Beautiful florist down West 8th Street at dusk
View uptown to the Empire State Building from down the road from the Art School in W8th St
The North East viewdown the East River from the roof of the local mall.
Further east across to New Jersey
Straight down
North east
South East
East with telephoto
Looking down the river towards lower Manhattan
Central to lower Manhattan skyline with telephoto
Using the telephotos to see the Empire State Building down town with huge apartment blocks closer to East Harlem
Another view
It's a long way down to mid-low Manhattan
Straight west across Spanish Harlem's latest and newest shopping mall
Later on Sunday afternoon down around E95th on Madison, there is a very strange ediface
It's a facade to a large playing space - millions of bricks.
I'll look up what this means - Boutez en avant 1889-1894
Strange and huge and just there amongst the apartment blocks, little supermarkets, funny cafes - not like our cafes - there's the Starbucks chains and then grocery cum takeaway cum restaurants, lots of nail and manicure shops as well.
Last photo from Sunday taken from the middle of Park Avenue at E96th St looking straight north up to about 116th St which is our 'main' east-west cross road thoroughfare in East Harlem. This railway is one of the above ground lines that go to outer places like upper state and the central and eastern reaches of Long Island. The subway covered by our Metrocard ($104 for 30 days) extends a really long way, to Coney Island, to both La Guardia and JFK Airports and the upper areas of Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn. Treated ourselves to a very delicious Mexican/Latino meal at Agua Fresca in E117th St at 2nd Ave - seafood, avocado, tomato in lime marinade, steak with rice, black beans and plantains then a coconut flan. The food around here is terrific and there's lots of street food too.
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