It was a beautiful weekend in Bed-Stuy to celebrate Molly’s 26th birthday.
We had a relaxed morning; Molly tidying up the living room and me making some celebratory pumpkin walnut pancakes!
After brunch, we took a walk through the neighborhood. Up on Marcy, a large film crew was shooting a crowd scene for a new mini-series by Soderbergh called The Knick. They had completely transformed the area, from the period-costumed people to the road paving material to the fake shop signs in Ye Olde fonts. ”Oooo,” said Molly, pointing to a neat-looking place entitled Chemists and Druggists, thinking it was a new hipster-cum-bar-hangout “We should try it out!” Alas, it was just the set!
We continued on to the fledging farmers market and on our way back home, we happened to run into longtime resident Claudia Moran, who was out supervising some repair work on her one of a kind mansion (http://www.thevictorianny.com). She offered us old-house-buffs an off-the-cuff house tour, which we promptly accepted! The house was amazingly open and wide and ornate, unlike anything we had seen! Claudia said the place was a wreck when she bought it 27 years ago, and she had been painstakingly renovating it to its former glory ever since!
Later, we went to Nic and Tony’s on the UWS for a birthday dinner, and I surprised Molly with tickets to the NYC Ballet! They were doing a program of three shorter ballets of very disparate styles all choreographed by Balanchine, which was great for ballet novices like ourselves. Kind of like a wine flight — something for everyone! During the intermissions, we admired the beautiful lobby and the outdoor balcony overlooking Lincoln Center!
