Our last two days in New York

The view from our hotel room!

Our last two days in New York City and we are winding down. Our bucket list is getting depleted along with our energy!

On Saturday, June 22, we visited the Turtle Bay Festival. The city closed Lexington Avenue from 42^nd Street to 54^th and vendors set up food stalls, craft booths, and information carts. There was all kinds of food – corn on the cob, turkey legs, ethnic dishes, bakery items, etc. Too bad we had just eaten our usual buffet breakfast at the hotel. There were lots of jewelry vendors, clothing, leather goods, hats, gadgets for all kinds of use – on and on. It reminded me a lot of going to the swap meet in Quartzsite AZ. It was a beautiful day for shopping – the rain had stopped and the sun was out.

Times Square from the top of the TKTS Booth

In the afternoon we went to TKTS in Times Square and got tickets for a musical “The Prom.” It was a cute show, very good dancing, great singers and actors, but not so memorable music.

On Sunday we went to mass at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle near Columbus Circle. It is the mother church of the Paulists, so it felt like home. After mass we spent some time looking around the shops at Columbus Circle and visited the Museum of Arts and Design. This was another museum with 6 floors of exhibits. Two of the floors were dedicated to punk graphics – art work celebrating bands, writers, and artists from 1976 to 1986. Unfortunately, our lives had gone in different directions at that time, so none of the items resonated with us.  I thought I might like the floor with futuristic jewelry, but that was a little outlandish and unwearable. Even the gift shop was way out of my price range. I did enjoy looking at the works by Roger Brown.

Suzanne in front of a Roger Brown installation

He does still lives using the many objects he collected over the years. He does a painting and incorporates the objects into the painting via a shelf that he places them on. I thought his juxtaposition of the objects and the colors in the paintings was lovely and his style was clean and simplistic. He died in California, but this is the first I had heard of him.

We decided to call it a day and came back to the hotel to get ready to leave tomorrow.