| The city was lovely. I decided that we had been overdoing it on our last two visits, and should rest more, so I skipped night life this time. Also, frankly, I find it difficult to imagine surpassing the movie. We went on a Circle Line tour of Manhattan, sailing around the whole island, which I had not done since I was eleven. It was a beautiful day, and afforded wonderful perspectives on the cityscape. We had dim sum in Chinatown, and let my son buy "fan subs", tapes of animes without dubbing, but with subtitles. We went to coordinated exhibitions, at the MOMA and the Whitney, of the work of Mies van der Rohe, who was the last director of the Bauhaus, fled the Nazis to land in the Chicago area, and helped rethink the design of the skyscraper, especially when he erected the Seagram Building in New York. We went back to the Stage Deli, which seems to be suffering from corporate expansion, took a brief trip to Brooklyn Heights to see Monica's (Edwarda's) neighborhood, went to a reception, dedication of her memorial, and a play at The Blue Heron theater, and took a drive around Manhattan on our way out, since we had not been to some areas, like Riverside Drive, for a few years......... |
