Summer is glorious

* happy hour - summer nights - Central Park - Madison Square Park - concerts - Williamsburg - P.S. 1 Museum in Queens - Morgan Library Museum - outside dining - (apartment) shopping - old friends - new friends - fireworks!

Life is good. :)

Empire State Bldg., pre-fourth-of-July lights, on the 4th:

P.S. 1 Museum in Long Island City, Queens (what used to be an old schoolhouse, and is now a sweet modern art museum).
Awesome architecture:


Some sugary patriotism:

The Empire State Building puts on his red, white, & blue:

Sitting on a towel, on the sidewalk, under a tree, in front of a park, in the rain, waiting for the fireworks, only to learn that we could not see anything from where we were, and then had to battle millions of people to walk 10 blocks south to catch a view of 1/5 of the sky for the finale, while being pushed by sweaty, cranky, loud people and even crankier, louder cops, herding people out of the streets as taxis strove to hit us all. Only in NY.