Start Spreadin' the News: March 2010

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Sunshine (the Great Thaw)

Yesterday I took a HUGE step. I left the house without wearing my huge puffy coat!! The sun was shining and the temperature was a steaming 48 so I headed down to the southernmost tip of Manhattan to catch some unobstructed rays and read my homework for my history class in Battery Park. I forgot how happy sunshine can make me! and water. I sat for a while on a bench overlooking the ocean and the Statue of Liberty (astoundingly small from afar).

Battery Park, on the southernmost tip of Manhattan

It's right on the water

A WWII Monument in the park

Interesting shadows!! At last! (You have to have sunlight for cool shadows)

One last pile of snow hiding in the shadows

Statue of Liberty if (if you squint you can see it)

After basking in the sun for a while, I gave myself a walking tour of Lower Manhattan, hitting up a couple of architectural attractions, like the Woolworth Building (see photo with greenish pyramidal top), and visiting a couple of small city parks and finally the World Trade Center Site, still a huge hole in the ground, but it is under construction.

I'd like to walk across that bridge

The Woolworth Building (95 yrs old and still in the top 50 tallest buildings in the US)

City Hall Park

Near the Ground Zero construction site; the sunlight caught this smoke perfectly

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Laura's 30th

Living in the same city as 2 cousins, Carolyn and Laura, I get to be a part of events in their lives I wouldn't otherwise, like Laura's 30th birthday! Her husband Brown planned a dinner for last Saturday at this really nice restaurant in Tribeca called the Harrison. It was a seated dinner in a beautiful room in the basement. The food was delicious, especially the carrot birthday cake! Carol and William, my aunt and uncle, barely made it in after the big snow storm, as did a couple of her other relatives (Rita and Caroline).