Culture, Steaks and Hockey

Time is flying, weather got worse, it even rained all day on Saturday. Following are a couple of pics from our fav places in NYC and our new culinary and sport's experiences in the last days:

Oldies, but goodies: Rockefeller Plaza (where the big Christmas tree is standing), and St. Patricks Cathedral on 5th Ave.:


MoMA (exhibition/sculpture garden with Picasso goat) - right now a huge expansion is in progress at MoMA.



The Apollo Theater in Harlem on a mural. Many great jazz stars performed there or, rather, started their career there in the old days:

Our favorite bookstore - to be mentioned in the same breath with Powell's in Portland: Strand Book Store. The cheap books are mostly outside, starting at $ 1, the "regular" (and cheap ones, too) are spread out on four floors inside - a heaven for book lovers!

On Friday we had a big feast with our friends at Butcher & Banker NY Steakhouse, in a restored bank vault from the 1930s closeby Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.After a couple of appetizers - like the smoked mozarella on the picture - we had their
signature dish, "Kan-Kan Pork" and Cowboy Bone-in Ribeye (pic), followed by a dessert-trio and accompanied by cocktails and excellent wine.

Saturday we took the subway and the PATH train to Newarks Prudential Center where the New Jersey Devils played the Florida Panthers (NHL/professional hockey). It rained out of buckets and we were glad, to be inside most of the afternoon. It's been a vivid, good game and the Devils won.