Real coffee (think Latte) two doors down at Jack's is a good way to start any morning in NYC, especially when it's followed by New York's best falafels, picnic style in the Hudson River Park (a massively long and skinny waterfront park that looks over the Hudson River, towards New Jersey). It was a great opportunity to people watch as heaps of people were sun bathing on the grass looking at the river, as if they were at a beach. It was also ironic to start at the Meat Packing District end as parts of the park were a bit of a meat market. The parks all flow on to each other and are filled with lots of different activities, from free tennis courts to a basketball court and sculptures like the bizarre penny people.
As we walked past Ground Zero Jason explained that we would have a better view in a minute. He wasn't wrong. Jason works on the 29th floor of the first building to be rebuilt after 911. The footprints of the two original towers are to become monumental waterfalls in park like surroundings and a couple more World Trade Centre office blocks are to be built. One as tall as the original towers. The view from all directions was amazing, especially looking right up Manhattan.
This whole day was formulated around attending Bastille Day celebrations in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. As we waited for the water taxi to take us across the East River to Brooklyn we were fascinated by a few families of Jews. Man do they have a lot of kids! It was kinda fun to try and work out which kids belonged to which family. We think the kids in the blue shirts were one family and the kids in the black and white striped tops were another. But we're sure they are actually all cousins!
Anyway we make it to Bastille Day where they are serving Sangria to drink and playing Latin music. So not as French as we first thought... at least the food was French and we had a wonderful waitress who provided service to the stoop as there wasn't enough tables to sit at!
We finally found Shannon's friends, Holly, Chris and Joe. They all live in Brooklyn so took us to a great restaurant where Shona had blackberry cosmo's while Mike drank beer. YUM YUM!
Real coffee (think Latte) two doors down at Jack's is a good way to start any morning in NYC, especially when it's followed by New York's best falafels, picnic style in the Hudson River Park (a massively long and skinny waterfront park that looks over the Hudson River, towards New Jersey). It was a great opportunity to people watch as heaps of people were sun bathing on the grass looking at the river, as if they were at a beach. It was also ironic to start at the Meat Packing District end as parts of the park were a bit of a meat market. The parks all flow on to each other and are filled with lots of different activities, from free tennis courts to a basketball court and sculptures like the bizarre penny people.
As we walked past Ground Zero Jason explained that we would have a better view in a minute. He wasn't wrong. Jason works on the 29th floor of the first building to be rebuilt after 911. The footprints of the two original towers are to become monumental waterfalls in park like surroundings and a couple more World Trade Centre office blocks are to be built. One as tall as the original towers. The view from all directions was amazing, especially looking right up Manhattan.
This whole day was formulated around attending Bastille Day celebrations in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. As we waited for the water taxi to take us across the East River to Brooklyn we were fascinated by a few families of Jews. Man do they have a lot of kids! It was kinda fun to try and work out which kids belonged to which family. We think the kids in the blue shirts were one family and the kids in the black and white striped tops were another. But we're sure they are actually all cousins!
Anyway we make it to Bastille Day where they are serving Sangria to drink and playing Latin music. So not as French as we first thought... at least the food was French and we had a wonderful waitress who provided service to the stoop as there wasn't enough tables to sit at!
We finally found Shannon's friends, Holly, Chris and Joe. They all live in Brooklyn so took us to a great restaurant where Shona had blackberry cosmo's while Mike drank beer. YUM YUM!
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I didn't think you were scheduled to be in France just yet! You confused me with the heading on this one! I like the idea of colour (that's color while you are in the US)-coded families!
ReplyDeleteAh,eat your heart out Shona, I'm surprised you didn't run into Samantha Jones in the meat packing district, but at least you had your cosmo's in true Sex and the City Style - love it!!!
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