brooklyn gal for a while

Bryant Park

Yesturday I a little bit fell in love with Bryant Park. I headed up there a little after noon and wandered around before settling in for some Broadway musical selections. I had been there before several times, but it just seemed especially friendly yesturday. I suppose its odd that I should use the term friendly, since everyone seemed to come mostly by themselves or perhaps as a couple. There are even little table/chair hybrids for the lone luncher.
There is this section toward 42nd st and the library that is a "reading room" with books that I think you can just borrow and read while you sip your iced coffee or eat your lunch. If you didnt bring your own lunch, 'wichcraft is there serving some tasty salads/samies etc.*
While the grass has its bald spots, there are beautiful flowers inbetween the benches along the perimeter of the knoll, and even the bees who lunched on the blossoms kept to themselves. And the birds seemed to know to stay away from the benched area . . . neither pigeons begging or signs of previous well fed birds on the seat tops.
Sadly, though, the mini performances of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and (unheard of to me) The Fantastics, left something to be desired. I suppose performing outside instead of in a stately Theater was one thing, and the barely audible acoustics another, but the dities didnt light a fire under me to go see a show.

*Sadly, the ice cream 'wich shop wasnt open yet, but they have these amazing ice cream sandwiches.**
**I love that in a town where one can always find a place to have a drink (bloody mary with breakfast, chilled white wine with lunch, pimm's cup at tea time, etc), ice cream hour doesnt start untill 2pm.

posted by gordian knot @ Friday, August 11, 2006