Things to Do in New York When the Weather is Really Bad

Today it's snowing again. This has been a very long, cold, dreary winter season - so far - and there's lots of it left to come...

Best thing in the last couple of weeks: hot chocolate at the Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie 

where I envied the chic up-do of the young woman in pink

and fantasied about moving in - or at least having some swanky party there.

Then there's the Metropolitan Museum of Art

which is utterly overwhelming, dwarfs one entirely

and is splendid for people watching

and spying on them from above.

Another possibility is to go statue gawping

this is Diana who used to live above Madison Square Park, but is now all newly-gilded at the Met.

This is from the memorial to Theodore Roosevelt outside The Museum of Natural History

I think Miss Snooty is something to do with writing to music

her calmer sister is definitely painting.

the First World War

someone terribly important (and over-gilded)

and chilliest of all a memorial to The Maine.

Got to dash to Macy's - which is at least warm. Will annotate the statues later!

Weaver, Farmer, Neue

Wet day, of course. 

What to do when a walk in Central Park is out of the question?

Weaver of Grass and her husband, The Farmer

are visiting New York from Yorkshire.

I want to show off New York. Make it be on its best behavior.

Elegant, cosmopolitan, luxe. So we have coffee and hot

 chocolate at Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie (a nod to Merisi)

where we can see Central Park from the windows.

We look at the Brucke exhibition...

... and the bookshop and gift shop's  delights.

Then take a bus down 5th Avenue alongside the park.

As we walk west along 59th Street, I spot this diner

and think we have everything here. 

Culture and Cake

C Train to 79th Street. 

Noble sort of statue outside the Museum of Natural History.

Lots of school children around and a very blue sky.

Bus through the park to 5th Avenue.

The Neue Galerie is positively one of my favorite places in New York.

Frances and I think we should move in immediately. Such elegance.

Even the type faces on the posters outside the bathrooms enchant.

No photos allowed in the Brucke exhibition.

But the staircase!

Then we come to the other good bit: the Cafe Sabarsky.

Wood panelling, a grand piano, views of Central Park.

 Austrian doughnuts with apricot jam oozing out.

Merisi, I was thinking of you.

The coffee mit Schlag. (Forgive my attempt at German.)

The cake was perfection: coconut, almond and mango.

In the evening, Eugene Brodsky's opening at Sears Peyton on 11th Avenue.

The open fire escape door an automatic photo op.