New Year, New Train Station

I celebrated the new year by visiting Moynihan Hall, the new Penn Station expansion inside the big post office on Saturday. Do not be deceived by the deceptive first photo, I actually entered via the Penn Station 8th avenue subway platform.

I found the expansion to be: well lit, clean, nice to look at. It seems it is all for Amtrak trains, so I don’t know how often I’ll be in there except perhaps to visit its fairly-decent looking future food hall lineup.

Taking advantage of the location, I walked over to Hudson Yards and then down the old Highline to enjoy lunch from Los Mariscos. Hard to say if I’ve missed their fish taco, ceviche tostada, or the cacahuate salsa most.

All I Want for Christmas is Zoo

My big idea for Covid Chrismas was to spend that morning at the Central Park Zoo BUT Christmas itself was very windy and rainy, so I went down to the zoo on the 26th instead. I got there right when it opened. It is not a big zoo, and even smaller when a few animals weren’t out while I was there. If the Lincoln Park Zoo can be free, I think the Central Park Zoo should be free, too. Anyway. Glad I went, glad I brought my 90mm lens. They have two extremely lively red pandas there and some very big snow leopards and a very stinky penguin house. And there’s a very cool great big snow monkey habitat…too bad only two monkeys were out enjoying it on this visit. Oh! And there’s a decent children’s zoo that even adults can go into. The sheeps and goats love those pellets!

Post zoo I did some park walking, saw that the Trumps have a bench? Wonder if they’ll spend much time sitting there come late January. Went and found the part of the fence with the leopards on the other side of it. Then I did midtown walking and wound up at Tacos No 1 for the first time since … I mean who even knows. May have been more than a year? Hadn’t had a taco that hit so nice in a while.

November 2020

It’s funny. I really thought I was going to have this November post ready to go by December 1st. Well. Here we are, he we go.

NOVEMBER 7:
Found myself in and around the village the night when the newspapers called the election. Was almost trampled by a jazz parade. Do not know why I dared the Washington Square crowds. Should have brought a book?

NOVEMBER 14: For Owen’s birthday I took a bit of a Midtown walk before stopping by Tara’s book signing in the park.

NOVEMBER 23: A little work crisis had me needing to run down to Wall Street that night. Took some pictures once the problem was cleared up.

NOVEMBER 27: Nice little walk to and through Inwood Hill Park? Why not!

And here is a family portrait I took representing my collection of gray New Balances

Coronavirus is kicking back in, there’s not much to be posting.