Gotham City: Part II

Montague Street
Sunday we met Kirsten at her apartment and went to eat at French Roast. It's a cafe in Greenwich Village that is a quaint sort of European restaurant. We had a very good breakfast, then headed for the subway and Brooklyn.

The sun was bright, but it was cold and windy. The wind blew up to about 40 mph and right thru almost everything we had on. We went to the Transit Museum which is near Borough Square. The museum has lots of good exhibits, but the ones I liked the best were the old subway cars. The oldest ones are from around the beginning of the 1900s. They all have the original ads up above the seats.

After the museum we headed over to Montague Street, a sort of restaurant row in an old but gentrified part of Brooklyn. We ate at Armando's which is an Italian restaurant. The food was great and not any more expensive than the same dish would be here in Austin.

We rode the subway back to Manhattan and Union Square. I brought my suit to wear to Rent, but I forgot a tie. We stopped at Filene's Basement which is actually two stories above street level. I bought a tie, and the Goddess bought a feather pillow (the hotel pillows lacked suitability).

We started back to the hotel thinking it was kind of late because the sky was dark. I checked the time once we sat down on the subway and it was only 6:30. Whatever the latitude is there, the night comes on faster than we're used to.