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This charming enclave of The Met is housed in a re-constructed ensemble designed to resemble a medieval-era monastery on four acres in Fort Tryon Park. Located in the Bronx, the lovely park runs along the Hudson, with views across the river of the New Jersey Palisades’ plateau, and is beautiful in the spring. The museum focuses on medieval art, architecture and gardens with the main focus on religious artifacts. It’s not large,… Read More
Yes, we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. No, it was not my idea. For the record, I do not like heights. But on a last-minute trip to NYC to visit our daughter, I got a bit outside my comfort zone. We began the outing by taking the East River Ferry (@ 34th St), to the East River State Park in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn. Williamsburg is a gentrified area very popular… Read More
My obsession with ancestry.com has been renewed during our recent visit to the New York Tenement Museum. This salvaged treasure offers a glimpse into the lives of a sampling of early immigrant families, German, Irish, Russian/Jewish and Italian. From 1863 through the Great Depression, this small Lower East Side building housed thousands of residents passing through its 22 apartments. Originally, there were gas lights, no plumbing, few windows and shared outhouses. Innovations… Read More
Who does a Sunday morning tour? Anyone wanting to see Grand Central Terminal (Station). And it’s no wonder, you would never be able to get around so easily during a normal business day. We learned about this great tour from some good friends and are so glad we hauled ourselves out of bed and out into the freezing weather – it was fantastic. And fortunately for us, most of the tour was… Read More
