our tour guide spoke about tenement buildings and how crowded the conditions were; she showed us the russian orthodox church on eldridge street and the fire department's dragon emblem on their truck; the statues of confucius and lin ze xu; and ended the tour on doyer street which twists sharply into a 90 degree angle and made me think of athens. the information was a bit chaotic and i wish we had done a little more research before going on the tour, but i can look at it the other way and use it as a beginning point. it would be good now to do more reading and look through m's walking tour cards she received for her birthday and pick out a chinatown one to do again this summer.
after so much chinatown m and c were craving a bit of italy so we just had to make our way to mulberry street and finally to ferrara's where we relaxed and treated ourselves to gelato and whipped cream, and admired the nougat. (it always looks so pretty but i'm never tempted to eat it!) we always have a fun time hanging out at ferrara's.
after so much chinatown m and c were craving a bit of italy so we just had to make our way to mulberry street and finally to ferrara's where we relaxed and treated ourselves to gelato and whipped cream, and admired the nougat. (it always looks so pretty but i'm never tempted to eat it!) we always have a fun time hanging out at ferrara's.
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You were turned around because the streets are all angled!? That's funny coming from someone in the West Village, where 4th street and 11th street intersect! It looks like it was a lot of fun. xo
i know! i kept saying to myself . . "but i'm not supposed to be confused on these streets!" but i was : ). i want to go back and figure it all out . . and maybe take a few more pictures. there were these tiny little stores/offices tucked into a support pillar of the manhattan bridge, and a couple who were mending people's garments while sitting in just a tiny little niche . .
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