Fine row of 19th century storefronts, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia
I’VE BEEN MOVING AROUND SO MUCH LATELY, my head is spinning. Hence the random assortment of images in this post.
A few days after moving into my new apartment in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, I took off for a week in Maui. I was back in New York all of two days before heading down to Philadelphia to meet a new tenant and a painter.
Federal-era corner building in Northern Liberties, Philly, now a popular brewpub
Got to hang out in Brooklyn another couple of days…
Flatbush Avenue’s own Flatiron building, near Bergen Street
where I did much of my Thanksgiving food shopping at Damascus Bakery on Atlantic Avenue it Brooklyn Heights. It has become a full-service Middle Eastern grocery in recent years. I went there primarily because Sahadi’s, the old standby, was mobbed, but I’ve since decided I much prefer the offerings (below) from Damascus anyway — all tops.
Meanwhile, Sahadi’s opened a pop-up holiday gift store, below, on the same block, for those food gifts (pistachios, dried fruit, candies, sticky baklava…) everyone likes.
Then I high-tailed it to Ancram, N.Y., in Columbia County, for a high-spirited Thanksgiving weekend with cousins.
Impeccable three-story eyebrow colonial, Ancram
Quintessential Hudson Valley dairy barn, late 18th c.
Hope you all spent a satisfying Thanksgiving with people you love.
casaCARA 