Reading and Roaming
Via Carota For us, no visit to New York would be complete without at least one meal, and preferably two or three, at Via Carota. This temple of rustic comfort food in the West Village doesn’t take reservations so we find ourselves eating at very unfashionable times. We tried to have dinner here on a recent Saturday …
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Snippets of Art MoMA will be closing in June for about 4 months for a slight re-do. We opted to take advantage of our membership and walked the 20+ blocks from our apartment. Since we like their café on level 2, we had an early lunch of paninis—an Italian one and the chicken with cheese one. With …
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GRAND GIRLS We left 85 degree plus temperatures and bright sun in Florida for the cool gray of Manhattan. We’ve had several days of cool weather with one bright warm bit of sun on Friday. After settling in and purchasing supplies, we spent the next two afternoons with our granddaughters. At their ages (3 and almost 7) …
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DINING OUT IN MANHATTAN We ran the gamut on our recent visit to Manhattan from lunches at diners to meals at moderate and splurge-worthy restaurants. We were initially dismayed to see that the Lenox Grill on Lexington had closed. While it wasn’t the best diner in the world, it was reliably good, convenient to where …
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