Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Morning Walk #2 - Gramercy Park & Union Square Park

On a bench in Union Square Park
 

  
Men in business suits walking their kids to school
 
Pete's Tavern, established 1864
 
Various architecture from multiple decades as well as multiple centuries
 
The myserious and slightly creepy Gramercy Park (which was a swamp till 1833)
 
The Brotherhood Synagogue in the former Friends Meeting House (1859) which was a stop on the Underground Railroad
 
A man in a business suit performing Tai Chi in Union Square Park
 
Squirrels running up and down the mostly vacant park benches
 
A park employee rousting sleeping people on the benches
 
The Henry Kirke Brown statue of Abraham Lincoln cast in bronze in 1868

Steps:  7125

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