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.