Friday, August 25, 2023

We found that rooftop bar!

Heading! 


For  a few years now we've been trying to re-find a rooftop bar that we'd stumbled across in maybe 2017 or 2018. 
Today, while looking for the collapsed parking garage on Ann Street, we found it.
Terrance Bar
Golen Hill Plaze
It's on Gold and Platt

Sunday, August 20, 2023

23-08-20 Southstreet Seaport Sailing on the East River

Launch and Learn August 20 was:
History on  the Hudson

Zach was in charge. The historian was Stefan.

We arrived to find a group of Asian teens dancing and being filmed in front of the Brooklyn Bridge. 

Then we enjoyed a light lunch at Mister Dips.

Then we boarded at 3:45 for a 4 to 6 sail. Stunning day. Stefan was great.


 


Stefan Dreisbach-Williams is a native of Staten Island and public historian of New York Harbor, its estuary, and its maritime network. He is Archivist for the Seamen’s Church Institute; Collections Specialist for the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Caretaker for the 1661 Bowne House in Flushing; and a member of the volunteer crew restoring Robbins Reef lighthouse. He has also worked on the water at the National Canal Museum in Easton, PA, and the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle.


Walking the new East Midtown Greenway

  We were already in the city, on 5th avenue and 20th.  So we took the 6 train to 59th street and walked east and south to get to 54th stree...