New York Fall Round Up and Almost Halloween

The artist Berch has decorated windows in Chelsea for years.

These are a few of this year's Halloween selection at the RailLine Diner.

Speaking of diners -which I love - one of my favorites is called EAT HERE NOW.

An excellent suggestion - so I did. A splendidly unhealthy lunch - but how delicious!

The diner is in the east 60's on Lexington Avenue and is slightly below street level so you see all the traffic zooming by. The waitress is from the Ukraine but looks like someone Manet painted long ago.

I do love public transportation. But you do need to be patient.

You need to be even more patient on the bus - but you do get to meet  people. This is a very chatty woman who took me for a tourist. She hoped I had a nice visit in New York and said New York people were friendly even if they didn't seem like it at first. She is the only person in the city I have seen sporting a Trump button. I did not discuss politics.

Then on to Union Square where there were.....

squash and pumpkins

 and astounding pumpkins

Here is a horse near Union Square who was having a snack.

Here is a very small cauliflower sitting for its portrait on a plate I bought in Italy in 1971.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

23rd Street

Very early in the morning the sun hits a building on the south side

 of the street and a plane looks like a comet heading earthwards.

High up, where the new building is, it is morning. Down below darkness still lingers.

Somehow, the shape of the new building is echoed in the garbage truck.

The black railing is the High Line soon-to-be park extension.

All the construction materials are cleverly reflected in the apartment building.

So many buildings to take pictures of. I'm longing for the plants to arrive.

My main blog is now here 

Evening NYU

In the very few moments spent not entertaining this....

I try to do some writing.

 A group of us often get together to talk about writing.

Usually we meet in someone's home where the snacks are a bit better.

(But we don't often have saki).

This week we borrowed a room on Lafyette Street belonging to NYU.

It turned out to have a grand piano.  A jazz band practiced below us.

 Anna, like the room, was a study in black and white...

There were reflections both literal and metaphorical.

... and intriguing glimpses into the building opposite.

The Letter A

Cait O'Conn0r recently did a wonderful, rich and lovely post about the letter P. 

She sent me the letter A.

So here is an Alien up high in the Meatpacking District.

And the Ear, a bar on Spring Street, where alcohol is served.

This is a poster and an awful warning seen in the same place.

An abundance of architecture around here. A crane on 5th Avenue.

Walking back from the bar, we came upon this shop on Hudson Street.

Robert said he had an automobile just like this a long time ago.

We discover it isn't an ordinary toy shop but one for animals.

I like playing games.

Cait talked about both good and bad P words.

Herewith some good and bad A ones.

Bad

agony

abandon

anguish

anxiety and its cousin angst

ambition

Good

austere

affable

apples

animals

Arezzo

amaranth

ps. Let me know if you'd like me to choose a letter for you.

First Proper Snow Storm

8th Avenue and 23rd Street.

Lovely big soft flakes.

An umbrella and a long coat very helpful.

Bicycling not recommended but if your livelihood depends on it....

Lots of shopping still to do......

Way down town near City Hall..............

............the warm lights of Trinity Church look welcoming

Neon

Burritoville on 23rd Street.
I've never wanted to eat here - and never have.



Nice old fashioned Florist sign on 8th Avenue.



Monte's near Washington Square Park.
For Monte in Marrakech.



I think Igor is some sort of hair stylist.
Today they also had his photo in the window.
I think he is a hairdresser.
There were too many tasteful colors in the previous posts.