This is our room in the Loft Hostel, a converted warehouse in Brooklyn in the East Williamsburg. Williamsburg is VERY cool! We had to buy new clothes to walk the streets. We stayed here the first four nights until we moved to a sublet in midtown Manhattan.
We go back for another four nights today. Not so happy about that since our unit is more like a home.
Beautiful brownstones in Brooklyn Heights. These are typical of some areas of NY. This was a particularly beautiful street since it had trees.
Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn side.
We went to see Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House. We queued for rush tickets and missed so we were standing right at the very back. The view was magnificent. You could feel the excitement.
In the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) I tried to see the subtle shades of black on this painting. Subtle.
The view from our Manhattan apartment at night looking north.
Ange being creative with the camera angles inside our apartment. I am sitting at the eating bench in the kitchen area. Behind Ange is the bed.
We hired bicycles on a beautiful sunny Sunday and cycled through Central Park for two hours. Fabulous!
One lunchtime we went to a free jazz concert at the Lincoln Centre. From the biogs of the players I calculated that there was not a player under 75! They were wonderful. The audience was mostly white haired too. We felt quite young!
After the concert we were walking through the forecourt in front of the Met when we happened upon this performance. This man was walking with no safety net and no safety harness!! I swear the crowd below were holding their collective breaths until he reached the other side. When he wobbled a metre from the edge I thought I would throw up with fear.
We went to an evening at Joe's Pub in Greenwich. Larkin Grimm, pictured , sang political and humorous songs. She had a wonderful voice. There were also two book readings. The writers then had to perform something on stage that they had never done before. The French author, Tanguy Viel, explained the rating system for friends he had devised as a teenager. Stephen Elliot made out with a member of the audience - there were no shortage of volunteers! The MC Amanda Stern was extremely funny, talked like a young Barbara Streisand!
The view of the south end of Manhattan from the Empire State Building. Neither of us had been up before so we set off at 8.30 in the morning and missed the crowds. The views are as awesome as you would expect.
We took the ferry across the Hudson River in the late afternoon and sat in a bar watching the lights come in Manhattan on for a couple of hours. This was a tip from a woman sitting beside us in the Marriage of Figaro, who lives on the River on the New Jersey side.
