China Now Music Festival shoowcasing Chinese composers @ Carnegie. Cai Jindong 蔡金冬conducts. Mr. Yu 俞 is there too, in the audience. The music is so so – too modern for my taste. Our comp tickets are front and center @ Parquet E row.
Hyatt across the street is opened
2018.10.23 @ 3:13
Normally by now, we’d see the pretty foliage but not this year. The warm weather doomed our sights. The autumn leaves on Long Island haven’t changed – this report updates out on Wednesdays.
It’s not easy, apparently. NCL’s Norwegian Joy leaves China in 2018 诺唯真退出中国市场… Here are some reports on the cruises in China.
One Chinese tourist on board NCL made the following observations:
The local group’s cruise 世纪荣耀 Century Glory since 2019, how will it fare?
12 Fulton Street
New York
The museum is tiny, housed in Schermerhorn Row. It’s good for my research purpose but not sure the “been here” stamp crowds will enjoy it as much. I took the Archtober tour which I highly recommend, is awesome: load of information and very engaging. Walked hearty 5.1 miles.
The caption The corner of Broadway and Ann Street, shown here as it looked in 1831, would in the future be made famous by P.T. Barnum, still only an apprentice hoaxer. The American Museum he would acquire was now located in its new, five-story marble building (far left), opposite St. Paul’s Church. Later in the decade, the building at right would give way to the grand new Astor Hotel.
We call it St. Paul, four blocks north of Trinity @ 209 Broadway in New York. This Bell of Hope was gifted by mayor of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002.9.11. It rings annually on Sept. 11, in memory of the attack, of HOPE not tragedy.
75 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
Left corner is Soldiers’ Monument, 1852. Honoring Revolutionary War soldiers
The steeple is on Broadway, one end to Wall Street. The other side is on Trinity Pl which facing to American Stock Exchange AMEX (86 Trinity Place). The main hall is under renovation.
The 39 foot tall (11.9 m) Astor Cross was installed in 1914 by Carrie, in memory of her mother Mrs. Astor – Caroline ‘Lina’ Schermerhorn who died in 1908. Lina was the granddaughter of Peter Schermerhorn who built the Schermerhorn Row @ South Street Seaport. This cenotaph was designed by Thomas Nash.
One of the many piers of New York, south of Pier 15, a little southwest of Wall Street.
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