round the hood

(tt)    We were sitting in City Diner, one of our faves, whose walls are covered in vintage photographs of a very much sparser and elegant city before the fiends went crass and either tore down the  gems or covered them in the gaudy tack of advertising. We were sitting directly under this photo. I had a feeling I had seen the building before.

It is the very building we were having burgers and coffee in!  This  was probably taken in the sixties.

This lovely statue reclines in Straus Park up near the intersection of West End Ave and Broadway. She is eternally pondering the fate of the Straus's, who were sailing home from a Continental jaunt. He was one of the power figures behind Macy's department store. She was his devoted wife of many years. When their chosen vessel, Titanic, foundered in the Atlantic on the evening of the 15th of April,1912, they both went down.

 I had a feeling I had been here before!  Then it twigged. It's the outdoor location of Seinfeld and Co's favourite diner.

St John the Divine from a distance and soon to be visited

The view which gives away the real name of the celebrated nosherie.