Warp and Weft: A Visual Memory of New York (1)

At the end of the last month, I travelled to New York to attend the annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America at the fancy Grolier Club, followed by a dinner at the Harvard Club. I enjoyed the conference very much--smart but very kind people, comfortable settings, and of course, great food ^_^ I got fed very well at the reception and the dinner.

On the following day, I decided to walk around New York City. It's actually my second time being in NYC. To be honest, I'm not quite into cities of metropolitan style, with tons of tourist crowded here, there, and everywhere around the cliche attrations, such as lame CBDs, mediocre skyscrapers, and repeating monuments. But walking around a city is always a good way to adjust my first impression of it. On that day, I ate at the very local Cuban sandwich shop, walked around 40 blocks all the way along the Madison Ave, and finally visited the Metropolitan Museum (Met). I started to walk from around 2:00 p.m, until 10:00 p.m. Eight-hour walking without even one-minute rest.... Standing ovation to myself! ^_^

Here are some random shots of New York City. (You can click to see larger picture) Most of them are different from those "main-stream" pictures of the city taken by a "regular" tourist. By the way, I have some vulgarness, by all means. My vulgarness refers to enjoying taking pictures of Met artifacts...... Forgive me though.....I only have four hours in the Met. So, recording them seemed to be unavoidable to me.

"rose rose I love you"

conference venue at Grolier Club

under the age-old subway (well, this line is not "sub"way though)

never, ever advertise with human being's faces in subway station

Thanks to my advisor, I got to know this very local and highly recommended best Cuban sandwich shop in town. It's, indeed, very small, and very close to the Times Square. But tourists never know it.