This post will cover two days. It's easy to get behind. I have been looking for these NY cups everywhere (called an anthora cup) and I can't find a place that serves coffee in them! I have quickly become obsessed with this cup. Almost every morning when I leave the apartment, the doorman has left one along with a local newspaper on the desk in the foyer. Then a couple of days ago I saw one on the subway stair railing as I was headed down.
Then last night Tony and I walked home from 12th Street and low and behold the windows at Lord and Taylor had a display that used several dozen of these cups. They are everywhere and yet they are nowhere! It's a mysterious paradox.
If you've ever watched an episode of a New York cop show, then you have seen these cups. They are all over the place in the movies and on TV in stories set in NYC.
We checked out some of the other flea markets Sunday. We took the train to Brooklyn to the Brooklyn Flea Market which is in Williamsburg. On the way to the waterfront, we stopped at this little flea market called Artists and Fleas. It had some pretty cute things...several booths of original screen printed t-shirts, handmade journals, and jewelry.
Outside was a guy selling coffee. I had a cup of the pour-over which was very good but it did not come in the mysterious anthora cup.
Then we headed down to the waterfront where the Brooklyn Flea Market is. It had been raining all morning so there were only about six booths set up so we looked at the view of Manhattan and then headed back to the train.
We went to the Greenflea, the flea market that is in a school and on its playground on the West Side on Columbus between 76th and 77th. It was fairly good. The most exciting thing about it was seeing Bernadette Peters looking over a pair of emerald earrings. She was really checking them out and talking to the vendor about them. Of course, Tony spotted her.
Sunday night we went to dinner at Gotham Bar and Grill and took Hannah and her friend Lindsey. Dinner was great but it felt good to walk some afterwards. We ended up walking all the way home, 43 blocks, which is over two miles. We didn't rush and checked out the store windows along the way. The Empire State Building was lit up in red, white and blue.
The lights at the 5th Avenue public library were pretty.
Here's the Chrysler Building above Grand Central Station at the very end of the street.
Today we walked in the park, had lunch and went to a movie at the Paris Theater. Then we walked to the park and sat for a while. I was fooling around with the Yelp app on my phone and found this news stand that was fairly close that supposedly had a ton of magazines. Since it was so close, I wanted to go see it.
I still can't quite believe my eyes. I asked the clerk how many magazines they had and he said almost 4000. It was truly amazing. There were so many magazines I had never heard of and one I picked up was $40. In memory of old times, we bought Hannah an Archie comic book.
Then we headed home and dropped off our things and around 8:30 walked down to as close to the Hudson as we could get for the fireworks. We ended up having to watch from 11th Avenue and 54th Street. It was very crowded but lots of fun. People just spontaneously would applaud after a really exciting firework.
In fairness, the two pictures below are not mine.
HAPPY FOURTH!!
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