Night Scenes

Looking down from the High Line at Hogs and Heifers.

And at picnic tables that look like Legos.

Nearer home Dallas Barbecue's lights paint the sidewalk pink.

Who would have figured on cupcakes' popularity at 9:30 at night?

The moon and a plane overhead.

Billy's Bakery

9th Avenue and 21st Street

How engaged and mildly cheerful the workers are in the

 window of Billy's Bakery in Chelsea.  Not a bad sort of job

 really. Decorating cup cakes used to be a very popular

 activity at our children's birthday parties

Recipe for cupcakes from memory:

Ingredients:

The weight of two eggs in butter and sugar

I teaspoon warm water

a pinch of salt

a dash of vanilla

4 oz. of self raising flour.

Method:

Cream butter and sugar

add egg beating carefully add salt and vanilla

add water

fold in sifted flour

Bake for 25 minutes at 350' 

Something a little self-consciously retro about Billy's

 but charming nonetheless.