Writes of Passage

12th Ave West
New York, NY 10018

One of the many piers in the west of Manhattan. The Circle Line, on this pier, was one of the first things I did when I came.

455 12th Ave West
New York, NY 10018

One of the many piers in the west of Manhattan. This pier host the ferry tours to many riverfront site, from views of the city skyline to Statue of Liberty, but more routes on East River than here on the Hudson.

408 12th Ave West
New York, NY 10018

One of the many piers in the west of Manhattan. This one is opposite from the Javits Center. Large enough to be a park. A ship named Shandong is sailing north. Many kids are training.

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4 Pennsylvania Plaza (34th @ 7th)
New York

MSG by Penn Station is the home for ice hockey team Rangers and Knicks, the basketball, WNBA. I went to WTA final when it was called Virginia Slim women tennis tournaments. And of course, music concerts, etc. I went to see Yes there twice; women’s basketball a few times, an acrobat once.

• 2024 Garden Cup

And more snapshots of New York

I walked 10+ miles in the City today, from Chinatown on Mulberry Street  up to

US Post Office @ 93 4th Ave; Grace Church School (JK to 8th) @ 86 4th Avenue; Strand Books

A girl sits on the windowsill; Paragon Sporting Goods Co.; pretty tiles at Mezeh @ 900 Broadway; Empire State Building from Broadway and 34th Street; Lego store @ 200 5th Ave (Flatiron District); Madison Square Garden.

195 Grand St
New York, New York

This Italian bakery in Little Italy, off Mulberry Street, reportedly was founded by Ferrara in 1892 by Antonio Ferrara, claims to be nation’s first espresso bar. I especially like their tiramisu.

I went in at 12:40 and it was pretty empty.

Around the corner on Mulberry Street, a newer bakery/clothing Caf

A warm day out in town, seeing different New York, from Chinatown to Hudson River Park, to Revierside Park. mainly on the west side of Manhattan.

Ten plus miles and many piers later, I didn’t feel too tired but the following day, I have to skip my swimming.

• snapshots of NY
• Chinatown fake bag sellers
• Ferrara‘s tiramisu & Mulberry St
• Astor Place
• Hudson Yard
• Hudson River Park: Pier 76, etc.
• Revierside Park and piers
• Shalel Kitchen, Moroccan
• Bernat & Qu @ Juilliard

The sun was about to set in the City

Paul Recital Hall @ Juilliard School
New York

Two performers from Juilliard: Bernat @ Morse Recital Hall and Xu @ Paul Hall. The later is more polished. But over all, last week’s Tal First is the best among those three. Violist Bernat is unpolished and his facial problems only add to the problem: he looks at his music note side ways (squinty eyes?); his nose is constantly sniffing and he has underbite.

Pianist Xu is from Shenzhen. His fair skin is translucent. He gave a little speech before hand which I thought was great. As soon as he sat down, he reminds me of Green Gould, a slight hunched shoulders. He played 1.5 hours without rest. Just to think all the tadpoles he has to commit to his memory, makes me dizzy.

He first played Bach’s English Suite No. #, then onto Listz’s 12 Transcendental Etudes, which is way to long without a break.

Xu 娃来自深圳. 皮肤白得透明 贾宝玉
家属说他弹的不错
姿势像 Glenn Gould 尤其是弹巴赫
一个半小时没有间断
要记得多少个小蝌蚪呀？
体力活+脑力活

Bernat娃 有些斜, 稀里哗啦, 地包天 ??‍ 不是开玩笑 unpolished

曲目还行

One of the many piers in Manhattan/NYC, used by city’s sanitation department. This seems the northern end to Hudson River Park and southern end of Riverside Park.

One of the many piers in Manhattan/NYC. Across street from Via 57West. Pier 97 is Hudson River Park‘s northernmost public pier. The anticipated opening time is in the summer of 2023.