At the South Street Seaport there is a butterfly store. We visit the seaport several times each week. And I visit the butterfly store every time.
The butterfly, besides being varied and beautiful, represents many things to many people. Beauty, rebirth, religious significance.
We have also seen butterfly displays at street fairs. Each specimen comes from a butterfly farm and they get to live their normal lifespan. They become "art" only after their natural death.
We visit Bryant Park pretty regularly also. In the background are huge slotted pieces that rotate and form a solid surface. Movies are shown in the park and the schedule is displayed on boards around the park.
We have seen many, many fountains. This one is in Bryant Park (behind the main New York City Library - the one with the big stone lions out front) and is just the right height for an almost three year old little girl to splash with her hands. Having fun!
We had lots of fun on the carousel in Bryant Park. We had two rides but then we had to go home because it was nap time.
On our latest visit to the Seaport we ran into a duck race that was to raise funds for the Special Olympics. Each duck was $5. The fire department came first and gave us a wonderful water show.
They say there were approximately 25,000 ducks in the race. As you can see, all of the ducks were contained with one area and towed up the East River getting ready to start the race. Lots of tourists were participating and seemed to have fun.
There was a display in the mall at the Seaport on human rights. Ear phones were hanging from a framework. Each set of phones was labeled with a language. The United Nations statement on human rights was being read in each of the many languages. We even saw one that was in Thai. Here John has tried on the headset labeled "English".
A lot of the languages we saw we never heard of before but these two are pretty well known.
Another photo from Bryant Park. We have attended their "music at 5" a couple of times. It is on Tue to Friday I guess for people to listen for 30 minutes or so before they begin their commute. There is also a reading section with tables, chairs and umbrellas. A cart with books, magazines and newspapers is rolled out each day by park employees and you can read as long as you want. There are a lot of childrens' books too. On this day the large lawn area was being watered in preparation for the free HBO movie showing that evening.
We try and walk between 3 and 5 miles each day just exploring the city streets. We spotted this restaurant and I just had to take a photo. Although the name is East Palace a close-up of the window reveals both Tex-Mex and a Noodle House under the same roof. Here a Noodle House is Chinese/Japanese food. Interesting!
Speaking of signs - we also saw one that declared NYC is the most diversified city on Earth with over 200 languages spoken here each day.
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