Another Way To Get Around: Bike Share

This new system of getting around New York City started Monday. You can rent a bike for around $10 for 45 minutes and park it at any of the stations located throughout the city. Helmets are not provided, so beware! I can't imagine navigating a bike here while dodging the busses and taxi cabs.

Henry's Rooftop Bar

If you'd like to rest your tired feet and have a drink while you're in New York City, don't settle for street level bars if you can find a rooftop one! Simply let your smart phone locate one near you. That's how we found Henry's Rooftop Bar in The Roger Smith Hotel on 48th and Lexington Avenue. I liked the artsy flags out front and also the scratchboard images of old cars lining the lobby walls.

This photo below is from their website, but we had the place almost entirely to ourselves Sunday. 

Here is my beautiful daughter-in-law (right) and her also beautiful friend, Megan.

How to Decorate a Long Hallway, Part Two

You could maybe purchase a Monet painting. . .

Or one by Matisse, if you have high ceilings as well. 

You can view these awesome pieces of art at the Modern Museum of Art (MOMA) at Rockefeller Center. I doubt that they can be purchased, though, sorry.

They Will Take You Away

Pedicabs line the street ready to take exiting Broadway show-goers to other destinations. These guys are a worth every penny if it's raining, but DO ask up front how they charge as each one has a slightly different method.

Hats for All

When friends and family visited this weekend, we took them for a stroll in Park Slope in Brooklyn where we stopped at the Goorin Brothers Hat Shop. My husband and I have purchased hats here before--as I've mentioned in an earlier post, if you live or work in New York City, at some point in time you will absolutely need a hat! 

The place was literally shoulder-to-shoulder with shoppers. I heard a couple customers ask the sales staff if the latest Great Gatsby move has helped their sales. The way the hats were flying that day, it  wouldn't surprise me if the hat industry itself was behind that movie's re-make.