Lunch or dinner or breakfast or 2 am snack includes a generous helping of gerkins.

Rain glistens the nightime 4th avenue.

By now we're pro's at navigating the subway system, much to the suspicious glances of at least one resident.

Ellis Island provided a distinctive diversion from our baseball related activities.

Miss Liberty rejects Ray yet again.

In the evening we partook (is that even a word?) of a different kind of dinner--Spark's, chosen not only for its fine dining, but for the fact the Paul 'Big Paulie' Castellanato was clipped outside on the sidewalk one evening.

Afterwards, we partook of a couple of cigars on the rooftop of Artemsky's, a couple of doors down. The evening was a tad soggy, but with cigars, drinks, and baseball on the tv, we were well satisfied.

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