The red-bird front-of-train No.5 pix must be on the Dyar Avenue line. Is it at the pocket at the north end of the line?
More on the lox-bagels-cream-cheese front. A week ago Jerusalem's Congregation Sheariey Ratzon, (Gates-of-wishes) hosted the Hazzan (Cantor) of the historic Bevis Marks Synagogue of London, and he gave an excellent lecture after morning services on how different traditions reshaped acient melodies to be more in tune with the surrounding cultures. The is was at a buffet meal served after the well-attended, and as usual very beautifully sung, morning service. Shaarey Ratzon, Bevis Marks, and my New York synagogue, Shearith Israel, are all Western Syphardic, meaning Jews that left Spain in 1492 but did not go to Islamic/Mediteranian countries, my congregation's founders having gone from Portugal to Brazil and then to New Amsterdam. The meal had four varieties of herring, plus salmon and another nameless fish, plus several variaties of cheese, and lots and lots of bagels. plus tomatoes, and several varieties of lettuce. I ate next to a more regular congregant who said he was raised in the Sephardic tradition in Turkey, where they do observe the ban on mixing fish and cheese together. But he ate as hearlily as I did.
David, before you put away those bagels (and the rest of that good chow, sounds like it was delicious!) did you remember to stand with your hand on your heart and give everyone a rousing rendition of "Sidewalks Of New York?"
Oh, and who has the better bagels, Jerusalem or New York City?
The Hazzan from London was the star of the particiular Shabbat, and it would have been out of place for me to try to do anything solo myself. On July 4th, however, at the Yeshiva, I did intend to keep my promise doing American sogns. I sang the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts at lunch, "The Gift to be simple 'tis the gift to be free..." in both English and in my Hebrew translation: "HaMattnanah likhiyot pashuut hamattanah likhiiiyot khofshee..." to applaus and cheers, and then the rabbi-teacher present thanked me and started a lesson with similar thoughts, (of course with appropriate Talmudic references) preluding my continuing with railroad songs. But after lunch, several students asked me questions about American history, and about the Jewish participation in the American Revolution (I termed it the American War of Independence, wich to me ios amore accurate description).
No Jerusalem bagels are as crispy as those I used to eat at B&J Bagels on West 72nd Street, closer to Columbus Avenue than Fine and Schapiro's restaurant. But I never ate toasted bagels in New York. The Yeshiva has a fine toaster, just repaired it this morning to prevent some previously fraid wires causing a short), and toasted bagels here are an even greater treat for me. Rather than cream or cottage cheese, regular yellow cheese toasted with the bagel and with some tomato slices is a supurb snack. Sometimes add a sprinkling of powdered Cinamon. (Cinamon is mentioned as one of the spices used in the Temple sacrifices, kinamon.) Reminds me of the Classic Trains story about the youngster who had his cheese sandwhich cooked on the shovel in a steam locomotive firebox. Would this combination be even better at B&J's? Is B&J still in business? When I ate there regularly, it was owned by an ex-Israeli couple with an ex-Palestinian Arab waiter who was my first Arabic teacher, and his name was Yasser. (Of course he also spoke Hebrew as well as English.) Anyway, next time you are at West 72ne Street, check it out and let me know.
If a Seagull flys over the ocean, what flies over the bay?
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The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Baygul. This time with herring. So is it the north end of the Dyar Avenue Line?
daveklepper Baygul. This time with herring. So is it the north end of the Dyar Avenue Line?
Yup that is where that photo was taken, but what about the LION on this latest photo.
Not much chance of me getting to W.72d Street David, but if I ever do I'll check and see if B&J's is still around. If the place was that good they just might be. Maybe Brother Lion can check it out on his next trip east for a "Subway Safari."
When the wife and I are up north it's usually Paramus NJ, and there's a great bagel place there on Route 17 South called "Fresh Bagels." Any given morning there's a line out the door! Everything there is great but I just LOVE the salt bagels. There's another "Fresh Bagels" on Saddle River Road in Fair Lawn that's just as good.
And Brother Lion, I blew up that last photo 300% and STILL can't find the Lion! You shrink him any more and HE'S going to be the prey! Imagine the ignominy of the "King Of The Jungle" getting eaten by a New York City rat!
Google maps does not find a B&J's on W 72nd st but does find a 72nd Street Bagels @ 130 W 72nd street and lists 72bagel.com for a web page.
Think it is the same place. Used their contact form to ask and ask if "Ray" knows where the former owners are. And Yasser.
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Quite the large lion hanging out above the portals down the line!
MUCH better! Nothin' like the view from a fire escape for spotting tasty prey!
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I think that's Li'l Lion taking a midday siesta in the tree, about 1 o'clock high over the train. Looks like a splash of orange up there typical of our little hunter.
Can't make a positive ID though, I tried blowing up the photo but I loose resolution above 150%.
I don't think that I climbed up a tree.
No matter how fuzzy the photo might be, the LION is never out of focus.
PS I think he is somewhere on the LEFT side of the photo.
Oh for cryin' out loud, is that him by the top of that blue post on the left, not on it but just to the right of it?
Yup, that is him...
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On the right side platform just in front of the first fully visible column.
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Newkirk Avenue is an interesting place. There is no road here, never was. It is a pedestrian concourse, the subway is in an open cut to the left. The Dunkin Donuts is a good place to eat, the LION stops there every time him visits New York. Usually get a Big Buttered Popply Seed Bagle, and maybe some Lemon Donuts to go.
Speaking of donuts...
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Could the Lion be on the track 2 signal one section from the near track 2 signal. Beyond the two eyes (reflections) between the rails of track 1 (nearest the camera)?
Um, No.... he could not be there.
Nah, he's doing his best smokestack impression atop the grey structure.
NorthWest Nah, he's doing his best smokestack impression atop the grey structure.
Yes, this be so. Besides you ought to know that there are no smokestacks on an elevator housing. Big Fire Department nonno.
BroadwayLionNah, he's doing his best smokestack impression atop the grey structure.
He got his fur smoked. I didn't recognize him in his gray trench coat. As the old visine commercial, "He got the red out".
I hope lion landed on his feet!!!
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