We love one day adventures in the city! This summer we decided to venture out of our comfort zone and become tourists--and rediscover areas, and in many cases, DISCOVER, new places that were lovely and thrilling.
Our first 2019 summer adventure was to the east side of Manhattan, to the beautiful, stately and serene Sutton Place area, and down to Tudor City. We first walked through Central Park to the French bookstore on Fifth Avenue, with its elegant silent interior, and starry gold and blue painted ceiling upstairs. It’s in the French Consulate, so you must pass through a metal detector. Then we went to Corrado cafĂ© on Lexington Avenue, where we sat outside with a coffee and croissant and wound up having an hour long discourse with Jerry the optical surgeon, who is retired and married to an Argentinian woman (who was with him but talking to her sister the entire time—I expected she was used to Jerry talking to strangers). Jerry runs a radio show about relationships in Aspen and has a pied a terre in NYC. This by the way, is the typical NYC encounter: Always someone interesting, always someone with a story—high end or low end, you’ll always learn something new about life by talking to the person next to you.
Jerry grilled S. on quantum mechanics, and we grilled him on macular degeneration, which is his specialty. In the end he convinced me to start taking AREDS, and S. got his email to send him his book-- we parted as friends, likely to never see each other again.
Our first 2019 summer adventure was to the east side of Manhattan, to the beautiful, stately and serene Sutton Place area, and down to Tudor City. We first walked through Central Park to the French bookstore on Fifth Avenue, with its elegant silent interior, and starry gold and blue painted ceiling upstairs. It’s in the French Consulate, so you must pass through a metal detector. Then we went to Corrado cafĂ© on Lexington Avenue, where we sat outside with a coffee and croissant and wound up having an hour long discourse with Jerry the optical surgeon, who is retired and married to an Argentinian woman (who was with him but talking to her sister the entire time—I expected she was used to Jerry talking to strangers). Jerry runs a radio show about relationships in Aspen and has a pied a terre in NYC. This by the way, is the typical NYC encounter: Always someone interesting, always someone with a story—high end or low end, you’ll always learn something new about life by talking to the person next to you.
Jerry grilled S. on quantum mechanics, and we grilled him on macular degeneration, which is his specialty. In the end he convinced me to start taking AREDS, and S. got his email to send him his book-- we parted as friends, likely to never see each other again.
We then walked east to First Ave.
and East End to the lower 50s to Sutton Place and Beekman Place, walking down
past the UN, to Tudor City. There is not much to do per se in Sutton Place, but
the stately brick and stone buildings and the serenity of the area are unique
to NYC, and I felt like I was in another country. It reminded me a bit of the
Gold Coast of Chicago. Very much a neighborhood of people with money. Beekman Place is also in this area, and if
you are there after 5PM the ideal place to go is to the bar ______________ with
a spectacular view of the city.
We then walked down past the UN—which you can tour at specific times—and then to Tudor City, another elegant, quiet area of the east side.
We then walked down past the UN—which you can tour at specific times—and then to Tudor City, another elegant, quiet area of the east side.
We also discovered ferries at the ferry stop here that not only take you to Brooklyn and lower Manhattan ( the NYC Waterway)—but you can also book rides through another ferry service to the Sandy Hook, NJ beach—and Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket!! That ride is about 5 hours and ca. $250 each way. We didn’t take a ferry this time but did on another adventure.
