Contrasts ,,,

Tuesday morning, we left the house in the morning without even wearing a sweater: sunny and hot. Took the train over the Harlem River to the Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, just a stone's throw away from Harlem. 

Walked over to a new development along the banks of the Harlem River, called Bronx Point, afterwards. One of the new buildings here in the South Bronx is the new home of the Bronx Universal Hip Hop Museum (below), which is supposed to open in 2025. The Bronx is considered the birthplace of Hip Hop in 1973 with DJ Kool Herc. Around the future museum they built a nice park closeby the Harlem River (photo far below).

 

 

Back to Manhattan and up to the northern tip of the island (train trips cost time!), into another "world". The Cloisters (left) - the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum - is surrounded by the beautiful Fort Tryon Park and offers excellent views of the East River, New Jersey and Upstate New York from its terraces. Trees looked beautiful, changing colors now. This unique museum specializes in European medieval art and architecture, shown in the architectural settings of French monasteries and abbeys. They were acquired by American sculptor and art dealer George G. Barnard in France before 1913, moved to New York and later bought for the museum by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

 

 

The walk to the "historic" Subway station 190th Street through Fort Tryon Park (photo left and above) was beautiful, especially in this weather! Change of scene again then, in  Midtown, around Columbus Circle/5th Ave, one of the main shopping arteries of the city and always busy with traffic. Rockefeller Center and Top of the Rock, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, St. Patrick's Cathedral - all is located in this neighborhood, which is always very crowded and packed with tourists.

New attraction on The Top of the Rock: The Beam

In the evening we met friends to check out a new Indian Restaurant in the East Village, ISQH, and, had a wonderful meal on our last evening.