New York, Part 3

Here is another wonderful bookstore I found in NYC:


The Argosy Book Store at 116 East 59th Street.

Michael and I had an incredibly good meal at Pane e Vino on Lexington Avenue:
I gave our waiter, Davide, the vague order of "a fruity cocktail, maybe something with orange in it." He brought this. I have no idea what it was, but it was delicious.

This was our appetizer. Charbroiled shrimp with mussels in a white wine, lemon and butter sauce. It was mouthwateringly good.

We each had a rigatoni dish for dinner. I had mine with bolognese sauce and he ordered it with eggplant and tomatoes at the suggestion of our waiter. It was so tasty, I forgot to take a picture of it.

After asking if we wanted to order dessert (we didn't), our wonderful waiter brought us dessert wines and homemade biscotti, on the house:
Romantic candlelit atmosphere, fabulous food, exceptional service...it really was an impeccable dining experience.

Sharon

New York, Part Two

Early evening in the City.

Some beautiful wrought ironwork on the Upper East Side,
near where we stayed:

I had no idea New York was such a European-style city:

This looks like it could be in Amsterdam or Paris.

Gracie's Marketplace on the Upper East Side:

New York, Part One

Michael and I just returned from New York.

I found this wonderful little bookstore right on Rockefeller Plaza:
I had read about it online, so it was a treat stumbling across it.

Sadly, after 73 years in business it is closing. Opened in 1935, it was the first retail tenant in Rockefeller Plaza. Their lease is up and the new rent will be upwards of $1,000 per square foot, so they are closing their doors.

It was full of beautiful old French and Spanish books.

Beautiful Deco light fixture on a beautiful Deco building, Midtown.

This is Tender Buttons, one of my favorite places in NYC:


This narrow basement shop is nothing but buttons, floor to ceiling and end to end.

Along the opposite wall, they display rare and unusual buttons in frames. These are my favorites.

More later...

Sharon