New York – Oh, the Places We See . . .

Glassy-eyed Travel: Corning Museum

Continuing our Summer Travel series that focuses on places now open and ready for tourists, here’s another of our Places To See for those of you venturing forth whether near or far. . . . as a material, [glass] has properties and characteristics we are only beginning to understand. Adam Savage, TV Host If your […]

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Discover Prompt 7: Below

A headline in our Knoxville News-Sentinel today announced: New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus rose past 3,200 on Tuesday, eclipsing the number killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11.” Associated Press What it means for those of us who are staying at home, watching the news intensely, and wondering if we really […]

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Merry Christmas 2017

Our Christmas wish to you: May your holidays be filled with family and friends and all the joys of the season. And just for fun, we’re adding a few 2015 photos we took in New York City where twinkling store windows, festive colors, and people posing in Rockefeller Center made the holiday a little more […]

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“A triumph of human dignity”: The 9/11 Memorial Museum

In memory of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, and those who have worked so hard to design and build a fitting tribute, we are republishing this post about the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City. We don’t know many New York City visitors who don’t have the National September 11 […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love

Within one hour of landing in New York City and searching for lunch on the Upper West Side in December of 2015, we walked in to Jacob’s Pickles and were seated near a young couple at the same longish table in the front window. (It’s not uncommon to share tables in the city’s space-challenged restaurants, […]

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The joy (chaos? panic?) of American Girl NYC in December

American Girl Place New York never was at the top of our list of stores to see in December or any other time, for that matter. But when your granddaughter has asked Santa for Grace Thomas, the Girl of the Year 2015, and you’re within walking distance of 609 Fifth Avenue, you have to go there. […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic

If you’re in retail, you already know that it takes a certain amount of optimism just to stay in the game. But add to that a cold December in New York City, a temporary tent, and goods that only big-city residents (not tourists) would carry home, and you have a renewed appreciation for those who […]

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Five ways to spend less in (of all places) NYC!

You know it. You just do. Going to NYC will cost ya! (Well, to tell the truth, traveling anywhere has its unavoidable expenses and serendipitous must-have purchases.) But there are things you can do to ease the financial pain. When we decided (on a lark, I might add) to trip off to the Big Apple […]

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Oh, that building: New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Although we’re book lovers through and through, we don’t make it a habit to visit libraries wherever we travel. But maybe we should. Now that we’ve seen the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, we’re curious to know what’s inside other libraries. Or perhaps it just doesn’t get any better than this. After […]

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Whitney to High Line to Chelsea Market: A newer New York

Mindful of our friends’ recommendations for what to see during our Christmas Holiday 2015 in NYC and loving art for art’s sake, we headed to the Whitney Museum following our usual routine: look up address, find appropriate bus or subway, ride, get off, enjoy. But when we arrived where our guide book told us to […]