Can’t believe it’s seven weeks since I posted my list. It was right after Pesach and my schedule was slowly opening up as the semester wound down. I’m pleased that I’ve checked off half the list so far and done a few other nice things around the city.
About a month ago I finally did the Met backstage tour! This was so enjoyable and really interesting. We saw costume rooms, dressing rooms, practice rooms, and even got to walk onto the stage where the stagehands were building a set. That day I also went to the Museum of Natural History (to see the blue whale model and the gems and minerals room), and then downtown to Battery Park. I rode the SeaGlass Carousel 😉 and also walked over to the Fraunces Tavern Museum which was not on my list but worth the short visit (it’s where General Washington said good-bye to his commanding officers at the end of the Revolutionary War before returning home to Mount Vernon).
One May day after work I went to the Small Is Beautiful exhibit — this was really cute and took about the 90 minutes advertised. I also went into ABC Carpet & Home that day — I almost walked on by, but thought, “I have a public to answer to!” (lol).
A friend and I went to the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, which was a bit pricey for the time we spent but it is a charity fundraiser. We walked from there to Noi Due (nice to go with a friend 😉 ) and down, down, down to midtown, stopping in at Tiffany, which I wanted to visit since reading this memoir.
I took the Roosevelt Island Tramway one morning (such an unexpectedly charming feature of NYC) and walked around the island to the Smallpox Hospital ruin.
And that leaves the big stuff on my list: Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Coney Island, and the top of the Empire State Building. (And Abaita, I almost forgot).
Let’s see what summer brings!
