New York Neighbourhoods
We have been continuing our purposeful wanderings through the city's neighbourhoods each weekend. We have meandered through Midtown, the Flatiron district, Chelsea, Soho, Greenwich Village, Little Italy, Williamsburg and Brooklyn Heights. Two weeks ago we went to Central Park, and then strolled through the Upper West Side. We know the area around Union Square fairly well now too, since it has a Whole Foods, a farmers market on the weekend, and is just North of NYU where we are both taking Continuing Ed. classes. Today Janet and I had lunch in Greenwich Village after our Arabic lesson, and then I walked down through Soho, thronged on a warm Saturday afternoon, along the barer sidewalks of Tribeca, and home to Battery Park.
This sculpture of the famous photo is actually just an attention-getter for the smaller copies on sale to the tourists.
These circumnavigations may turn out to have a practical end. I visited the building of the under-construction apartment we've rented in the financial district. Considering that we were originally proposed to move into the place on October 1st, the progress on our floor is dismaying. The walls are up, but nothing is completed. Bare wires protrude from switchplates and there is no finished hardwood, tile, carpet, wallpaper or paint on the entire floor, much less appliances and window coverings. Our lease contains a clause that lets us out 45 days after the 1st, and it's still possible that it could be habitable by then - but I saw only one workman in the whole site, and he was on the phone. So we may have to reflect on our explorations and give some serious thought to where we should focus a renewed house hunt.
posted 6.10.07
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