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Tuesday, May 2. 2017

Reminder: Third Annual Maggie's Farm Urban Hike Sunday, May 7

We will meet at 10 am at the fountain in Lincoln Center, rain or shine. There is a Dunkin Donuts (and a Starbucks) nearby if needed.


We'll have some dumb balloon for recognition. Join us. We're friendly dogs and do not bite. Not a large group, I think, so good for conversation. Weather should be rain-free and cool.


Our leader Bulldog will lead us from there, wandering around the West Side, maybe all the way to the Brooklyn Bridge depending on time.


Lots of things to see along the route he has planned (see below the fold) -






Lincoln Center 
Al Hirschfeld's chair (LOL)
Syms Operating Theater
Columbus Circle
Broadway
Times Sq
Oldest phone # in the US
Garment district
Webster Apartments
Cow Tunnels (not really there, but at Javits Center)
Nero Wolfe's townhouse
High Line
Clement Clarke Moore's Townhouse
Episcopal Theological Center where he studied
Chelsea hotel
Chelsea and Gansevoort Markets
Whitney Museum
Magnolia Bakery (original one, I'm told)
White Horse Tavern
The Gardens at St Lukes
smallest piece of property in Manhattan
Smallest cemetery in Manhattan
Stonewall Inn
The Weatherman Explosion townhouse
Hangman's Elm (Washington Sq Pk)
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Winston Churchill Park


 ...and more

Posted by Bird Dog at 12:07 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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looking forward to it w/ the Mrs. D
#1 Dennis on 2017-04-19 21:46 (Reply)
State tournament weekend.
#2 DrTorch on 2017-05-02 18:17 (Reply)
I hope y'all have a crazy amount of fun. I hope to join you - maybe next year - as I build better fitness. Cheers and have a great time!
#3 JohnL on 2017-05-02 22:07 (Reply)
Once again, the date is not a good one for me, but each year my desire to join you becomes stronger...
#4 Douglas2 on 2017-05-02 23:42 (Reply)
Looking forward to it. We live not far away in Vermont but seldom get to NYC. Most of the items on the list are new to us and we are looking forward to learning about them. Have been to the Lincoln Center once before, in April 2002 to see Alan Alda in a wonderful play titled "QED" about Richard Feynman.
#5 George & Nancy on 2017-05-04 07:16 (Reply)
Greatly looking forward to it. Glad to see you will be coming through my beautiful neighborhood of the West Village. You guys are probably already experts on the sights, but perhaps I may be able to point out a few details you don't already know. For example, the site of the (original) Magnolia Bakery at West 11th and Bleecker Sts. was previously -- a pet store that specialized in selling parrots!
#6 Francis Menton (Link) on 2017-05-05 08:38 (Reply)

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