Sixth Avenue and 11th Street

Photograph like a woodblock print of Hitachino red rice beer at Kin Shop, a new and contemporary Thai restaurant where I, among many others, was stunned by the deliciousness. (Especially: scallops with snap peas and coconut sauce and the roasted duck on crispy roti.)

Hudson Street and Charles Street

So much pink salt that the store is glowing. This is The Meadow, a salt boutique where, it seems, you can purchase pretty much any kind of salt you can imagine. (Here’s a look inside. And here's the manifesto.) Bonus: you can taste them all before you buy. My favorites were the smoked varieties (cherry blossom from Japan and guava smoked from Hawaii).

Central Park

Happy Thanksgiving (with fall foliage and a view of  Bethesda Fountain).

Murray Street and West Broadway

If you stare at the skyline long enough, eventually you’ll see balloons. Or rather, I always have. Finally, I caught one in a photograph.

32nd Street and Broadway

A jarring message at the table in the Korean bakery Koryodang, which is an otherwise serene and zenlike room—especially when entering off of 32nd Street (especially with an order of green-tea layer cake in the afternoon).

Church Street and Park Place

Pigeons on a wire. At first glance, like blackbirds—tourists here for the weekend. One way of looking at them.

Fifth Avenue and 86th Street

Espresso with whipped cream at Café Sabarsky inside the Neue Gallerie. There’s also an amazing chocolate and rum cake, somewhere outside of this picture. (I tried to find a recipe for it online from the chef, Kurt Gutenbrunner, but no luck. Instead, I stumbled upon his recipe for wiener schnitzel—another delightful dish, whenever I’ve had it, at one of his other restaurants, Blaue Gans).

Columbus Circle

Brush with glamour or sidewalk annoyance? (The latter.) Movie equipment on the street, during the filming of something, I don’t know what (though there was talk it’s Tower Heist).

West Broadway and White Street

The end of an era: the Encyclopedia Britannica has been kicked out to the curb. And even though it’s now online, I always turn to Wikipedia instead. Wouldn’t you? (Here's the article at Wikipedia about the Britannica.)

Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street

Black figures among white statues at the Metropolitan Museum (in a scene that reminded me of Louise Lawler’s pictures of people looking at pictures).

Chambers Street and Broadway

Abstraction with construction beams, or variation on a theme: the New York grid. (See more shots of construction and structures here and a discussion with Stanley Greenberg, author of Invisible New York.)

25th Street and Broadway

The view through the window at the retro, southern-styled Hill Country Chicken, where I discovered an imitation Chick-fil-A, which is as good as (maybe better than?) the original—same soft bun and pickles, which was a relief, and excellent coleslaw: hooray. (They call it a chickwich. And you have to order the coleslaw separately, just as at Chick-fil-A, if you want to slather it on your sandwich, which I highly recommend.) The actual fried chicken and biscuits were also pretty good.

Broadway and 19th Street

Holiday woodland scene, a little too early in the season, at ABC Carpet and Home. (Just part of the Christmas creep in NYC.)

45th Street and Eighth Avenue

A glance up at the jewelbox Music Box Theatre, where La Bête is now playing. (All the rave reviews you've been reading are true.) And the play is in rhymed verse, which is, of course, hilarious.

Madison Square Park

Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light artwork on display now in Madison Square Park can’t really be captured in a photograph (I tried, however). That’s an actual person walking across the screen of lights here, not one of the flickering light silhouettes.

Prince Street and Lafayette Street

Window display at McNally Jackson Books (you can read an interview with the owner about what makes a great bookstore in the latest issue of Poets and Writers). I’ll be there next week, November 10 at 7pm, for a reading and signing of Hint Fiction.

Broadway and Grand Street

A nice reminder on that stretch of Broadway where the sidewalk has too many vendors peddling I Heart NY hoodies and onesies and things and caps. (Still, it’s difficult not to love New York.)

32nd Street and Madison Avenue

The serene, Korean HanGawi is a “vegetarian shrine in another space and time,” according to its website. Entering does feel like stepping into a different world (and you do have to remove your shoes).

Park Place and Broadway

A pop of autumn yellow among the old rooftops—and Frank Gehry’s new tower, the tallest residential building in Manhattan.

42nd Street and Eighth Avenue

Midnight in the subway station, waiting for the A train.