Indulging in the Unplanned Day

There’s always something to do in the City. Even when plans don’t work out as planned, the City is defaulted to provide unplanned backups to anyone who needs them.

Philip, knowing that when possible, I try to be “green,” decided to take me to Chinatown/Little Italy for a major street exhibition event. The way he described it to me, it was a 4-day event during which time vendors set up street exhibitions demonstrating different ways to live green in the City. Or something along those lines.

We hopped onto the subway, changed trains at Columbus Circle, and popped up to the street in Chinatown. We walked. And we walked. And we walked. Until Philip took another look at his phone to see if perhaps we had gone to the wrong part of town. No, we were exactly where we should have been. Apparently, the exhibitors decided to make their exhibitions very green today - so green we had to be there yesterday to see them.

Yes, we were a day late for the street exhibitions. Other aspects of the event were happening today, but not the street exhibitions. Oh, well. One of the benefits to living in NYC is that our day wasn’t wasted. We simply walked a few blocks to an Italian restaurant in Little Italy for lunch before indulging in some yummy gelato at Ferrara Bakery & Cafe.

Ferrara's in Little Italy

Ferrara Bakery & Cafe (http://www.ferraracafe.com) is an Italian bakery over 100 years old with an Old World feel to it. We figured it must be really good to have not only survived that long, but to have thrived. The main bakery and cafe is indoors, but there was line out the door. The store was selling gelato on the street right outside its main doors, and there was a line of about 10 customers waiting for their sweet indulgence of the day. 

The gelato really was good. Philip stayed with the tried and true chocolate while I ventured out with a flavor I’ve never before tried, hazelnut. 

Yum, yum. I can’t wait to go back!