Showing posts with label little syria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label little syria. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2026

sunday walks

early morning walk with greg . . 



explaining the tidal zone . . 



a mourning dove!
 
breakfast with chanda . . 

delicious strawberries from the coop which were gone by the end of the day.

morgan and harley's new floor which they just laid down. it looks nice!

more organizing! i like the fish on the top.

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after breakfast, greg and i walked downtown to see the new little syria exhibit.

it's in the elizabeth h. berger plaza at the meeting of three streets: trinity place, greenwich street and edgar street. the area was once called the syrian quarter beginning from the late 1880's as many people from the ottoman mount lebanon/syria area came to live here. it was new york's first community of arabic speaking immigrants. 

the sculpture has the names of many lebanese/syrian writers. i actually couldn't find a plaque with an explanation. i'm hoping they put one up soon as i'd like to know what the arabic means and who the writers are.



it's a lovely exhibit and park.

walking back home . . 


past where greg used to work when at time warner. it seems that people magazine still occupies part of the lobby area they were at.

looking north along west street . . 


the kayakers were out on the river . . 

and the sea roses are all in bloom.