Started our day with another bagel place.. see a theme? Today we went to Bagel Market. We have decided to rate the bagels on a 10 point scale. We rated today’s a 6/10. They weren’t as fresh or hot out of the oven as our previous ones so it needed to be toasted. And they lose a point for offering a rainbow bagel.

After breakfast we headed to the Museum of Modern Art. Greg hadn’t been there before so we gave it a try. Neither of us enjoyed the visit. It was very crowded. There was a lot of art for the space, so the art was too close together and the curating didn’t make sense to us. For example, they had a room dedicated to their Picassos and they had enough Mondrian pieces for its own room, but they split the Mondrian pieces into multiple rooms for no clear reason. Amy kept comparing it unfavorably to the Cleveland Museum of Art. We will just have to make another trip to check out the modern pieces in Cleveland.

We decided to leave the museum and get lunch. On a previous trip, we did a pizza crawl. There we discovered L’industrie in Brooklyn, which was a favorite. So we hopped on the M train for a slice. They had increased the storefront and opened a location in Manhattan since our last time. But the pizza was just as good as we remembered. Maybe even better!

After pizza, Amy returned to the hotel to rest while Greg tested his new camera for iconic photos of New York. First, a stop in DUMBO:

Next, Greg walked across Brooklyn to catch the subway back to Manhattan. Along the way, he saw some flowers and a modern statue, perhaps more interesting than anything we saw at the MoMA.

Next stop, lower Manhattan. Seems they separated the Wall Street statues of the Bull and Fearless Girl. The Bull had huge crowds, so Greg went to Fearless Girl, who now stands facing the New York Stock Exchange. Seems more of a capitalist message than when the girl was facing the raging bull.

For dinner, we tried a French bistro near the hotel. It suffers from the problem of most French restaurants in the US: expensive and not so good. After dinner, Greg returned to Carnegie Hall to hear the Boston Symphony and Yo-Yo Ma play an all-Shostakovich concert, while Amy returned to Broadway to see Oh Mary, a new play that was a completely fictional story where Mary Todd Lincoln wants to be a cabaret singer. The role of Mary is played comedically by a Cole Escola (they/them) at the Lyceum Theater, the oldest theater on Broadway.