Trip to museum was motivated by the exhibit: The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 With three major league teams—the Yankees, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the New York. The decade between 1947 and 1957 was the golden age of baseball in New York City. Giants—at least one of whom played in the World Series every year except 1948.Click on the museum logo, or images, to check out any of the exhibits we saw today.
New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene De Salignac. Everyone's favorite photo featured dapperly-dressed workers posed in various positions on the cable supports of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Jewish Daily Forward, founded in 1897 and still publishing today in English and Yiddish, 
once boasted a readership larger than that of the New York Times. The Jewish Daily Forward: Embracing an Immigrant Community looks at the newspaper as a window into life in New York City—particularly during the heyday of Jewish immigrant life in the first half of the 20th century.
Timescapes, a slide show, covers 400 years of NYC history in 25 minutes.
We had lunch at the museum cafe:
And we topped off the day with a fine dinner at Tia Pol, a tapas restaurant in Chelsea:
*patatas bravas
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