other pictures and some musical videos

I thought it would be nice to post a couple of Cedric-free photos so some of the other sights I've seen could appear in my blog. Here are my top five:

The sunset on my first night in New York. The sun was glorious.

The Brooklyn Bridge at night from Empire-Fulton State Park with the Manhattan skyline.

The photo here isn't fantastic, mostly thanks to the crappy lighting, but the view was stunning. You are walking in the middle of the Financial District, and then all of a sudden, after passing the NYSE, you hit Wall Street. This is the view to the west. It's Trinity Church (the church in National Treasure where the stash of treasure is found underground). It's a good visual of the old and new structures that stand next to one another all across town.

This was on Sunday afternoon during the sunniest rain shower I've ever been in. I like that you can see the shine from the sun and the glare off the wet path. This is the Literary Walk in Central Park and is a frequent location for movies. The only one I'm coming up with right now, though, is Maid in Manhattan. Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes go for a walk here when she's wearing the borrowed suit.

My favorite view in New York City. This is from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (as was the first), but on this night, there wasn't a visible sun and the sky was grey until after the sun set. All of a sudden, I looked up and realized the clouds behind the Financial District skyscrapers were turning cotton-candy pink. This is the sunset from Sunday night that was described in this week's column. My Austrian visitors and I had already stopped to take pictures of the view, but this was too good to pass up.

Harlem Renaissance Orchestra videos:

more pictures of cedric

Now Cedric is visiting Central Park. He enjoyed relaxing in the sun in the Great Lawn after a long day of walking. We'd walked from 125th down to 112th, with detours to the Hudson River and Grant's tomb, a church, Columbia and Pink Berry (a frozen yogurt chain that is like Coldstone and Marbleslab; you select fruits, cereals or candies to be added to your yogurt), and I finally decided it was time to get on a bus and head town to the 79th Street entrance to Central Park. The center of Central Park provides a really great view of the skyscrapers that line 42nd Street between Grand Central Terminal (the station is the post office) and Times Square. 

The next day brought another trip to Central Park; this time beginning with a walk around the Jackie Onassis Kennedy Reservoir.  The skyline I mentioned earlier can be seen from here, too.

This week also included a new purchase from the Apple Store. The one on Fifth Avenue never closes. And it was designed to be a knock-off of the pyramid entrance to the Louvre. Instead of a pyramid, there's a glass square with an apple suspended inside, with an imitation circular glass stairway with a circular glass elevator in the center of the stairs, also like the Louvre. This also means that the entire store is underground.

pictures of cedric

Here are some of the latest photos of Cedric and our excursions. This blog allows only five pictures per post, so I'll have a handful of photo posts today. 

This first photo is of Cedric at the Bowling Green Fence that surrounds Bowling Green park in the Financial District. We made our pilgrimage here with my roommate. I find it quite humorous that the Bowling Green subway stop has orange tiles and that this park frequently has falcons. What a wonderful coincidence.

The next weekend I headed to Coney Island with my office mate and one of her roommates. Upon arrival we stopped at Nathan's Famous to have our required hot dogs. My coney dog was good, but nothing special. The chili dogs from The Hot Dog Shoppe in Warren are still my favorite hot dogs (but I did have a rather decent hot dog from a vendor last Friday). Nathan's Famous is home of the annual hot dog eating contest.

While there we also walked to the beach, which Cedric enjoyed. It was much more relaxing than our Wonder Wheel ride. Cedric didn't ride on the Cyclone rollercoaster. That was a little too adventuresome for him, so he waited in the bag check.

 
This is our seat at the Metropolitan Opera concert. To the right of Cedric's left ear is one of the video screens. We couldn't see the stage from our seats.

Also last weekend we made a stop at Columbia University. The university's library is the building with columns that is behind Cedric.

columns five and six

With a stretch of busy days, I never got the chance to post the link to the fifth column, so I'm including five and six in the same post.

Column five is about some new experiences I had, which include a hospital visit and a trip to Coney Island. You can find column five here: New experiences in New York City.

Column six is about spending time with some people I hadn't expected to see here. The link to column six is Sharing moments with familiar faces.

I have lots of pictures to post, too, so those are next.

the fourth column

So the fourth column ran in today's BG News. Check it out at:
Getting to Know the Subways

Also, some pictures of Cedric's most recent escapades...

At United Nations

At the Museum of Modern Art with "The Starry Night"


Still at MoMA, but with Jackson Pollock's


And, low and behold, at the Bowling Green City Park with the Bowling Green Fence (there used to be falcons there, too)

the third column

Here it is...

Winning the Lottery

pictures!

Cedric at the Usher Concert at Bryant Park for Good Morning America on May 30


The room...the desk
The sitting area and non-functionable patio door and window that opens two inches



The kitchen

the second bg news column

In the Big City