Oct
23
2018
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

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Oct
22
2018

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.
- 2019.7.11, scmp: Chinese tourist-led cruise ship boom sails into troubled environmental waters
- 2019.6.10, Wired Forget the Bahamas. China’s Cruises Are Where It’s At
- 2019.6.08, Economist: What slumping demand for cruises says about Chinese tourists
- 2018, skift: Norwegian cruise line is moving its built for China ship to the us
- 2018.10.25, Market Screener: NCL leaves China
- 2018.10.10, 诺唯真退出中国市场
- 2018.7.18, Travel Weekly: Built for China the Norwegian Joy is headed elsewhere
- 2018.3.30, scmp: Angry Chinese tourists stage another noisy patriotic
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Oct
20
2018

12 Fulton Street
New York
The museum is tiny, housed in Schermerhorn Row. It’s good for my research purpose but not sure the
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Oct
20
2018

209 Broadway
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.

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Oct
20
2018

75 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
Left corner is Soldiers’ Monument, 1852. Honoring Revolutionary War soldiers
In 1986
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.
In Christian, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in one – trinity (?)
It has two other chapels: St. Paul’s @ 209 B’way, and St. Cornelius the Centurion @ Governors Island.

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.
This church is seen as embodiment of the wasp / White Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture in the US.

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Oct
20
2018
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20
2018
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20
2018
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20
2018
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