Morning Walk #89

Shoes abandoned by Gramercy Park. At least they have each other.

67 degrees, 67% humidity and sunny

Only 1 degree warmer than yesterday but it feels warmer

Mimosas this Saturday at the Brooklyn Industries store

Sidewalk chalk drawings guide shoppers into the American Apparel

Decorating store windows at 7am

A man dressed in black carrying a single red rose

Another man passing out religious tracts

Quote at the spa:  "Hope is a waking dream."  -Aristotle Onassis
(I would like to know at what time in his life he said that)

Lacy off white dresses seem popular. Note to wearers: Seeing your butt crack through the dress does not really complete the look in a good way

Steps: 9406

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