{"id":1535,"date":"2020-04-30T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:49:06","slug":"a-fantastic-place-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1535","title":{"rendered":"A Fantastic Place to Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each month Power Tasting<\/em> features a Place to Visit.\u00a0 It\u2019s in Wine Country somewhere, but is not necessarily wine-related.\u00a0 We\u2019ve taken you to small villages, medieval cities, a trade show and great wine bars.\u00a0 This month, we\u2019d like to suggest that everyone take a very close look at a very special place: your own immediate neighborhood.<\/p>\n

We live in Manhattan\u2019s West Village sector.\u00a0 When it\u2019s not raining, we take brief walks and we get to see our neighborhood in a very different way.\u00a0 The streets are almost deserted, both of cars and pedestrians.\u00a0 There are more people in the park than we\u2019d like, so we avoid it most of the time.\u00a0 Some people are wearing masks; most aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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But it\u2019s still New York and it\u2019s still spring.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know a lot about flowering trees but we think Google is telling us that the white ones are calley pear trees and the pink ones are well, pretty pink trees.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re walking along streets we don\u2019t usually take.\u00a0 Even though West Street is on one side of our apartment building, we don\u2019t usually walk there because there\u2019s really no place to go.\u00a0 Normally, the traffic on this major artery alongside the river is quite heavy, so a walk amidst the fumes isn\u2019t very inviting.\u00a0 But with the traffic almost all gone, it\u2019s more pleasant, even though there\u2019s still nothing very interesting along it.\u00a0 But with our horizons shrinking in, we have found a little spot where the city has planted a mini-garden and a park bench, sadly often occupied by a homeless fellow.\u00a0 There are a few restaurants we have pledged to try when the city re-opens.\u00a0 And we\u2019re seeing the back end of the Whitney Museum, a view we don\u2019t usually get.<\/p>\n

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When we have gotten into Hudson River Park on a bright sunny day, we see New York in suspended animation.\u00a0 There\u2019s the biergarten<\/em> that will hopefully return with warmer weather.\u00a0 An interesting statue of the New York symbol, the Big Apple.\u00a0 The river itself, with fewer boats than usual.\u00a0 Two long piers, one that reaches well into the Hudson and provides stunning views of the city.\u00a0 Remember, all these sights are not more than ten minutes from our door, on foot.<\/p>\n

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We live along the Hudson River<\/em><\/p>\n

New York is all about BIG.\u00a0 But these days, we\u2019re seeing New York in miniature.\u00a0 We take the time to notice the 19th<\/sup> century row houses, the cobblestone streets, the tall, new glass-and-steel apartments and the chipping paint on some of the older ones.\u00a0 We know those things were there before but now we\u2019re seeing them as the only parts of outdoors that are readily available to us.\u00a0 Quite frankly, we look forward to the time when we will walk by these things without taking special notice.\u00a0 When we\u2019ll smile at passers-by, not walk into the street to avoid breathing the same air as they do.\u00a0 When we can board a plane and go wine tasting.<\/p>\n

It will be better someday.\u00a0 But our neighborhood will always be a place to visit.\u00a0 And then, when you do, you\u2019ll be able to stop in a trattoria for a glass of wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each month Power Tasting features a Place to Visit.\u00a0 It\u2019s in Wine Country somewhere, but is not necessarily wine-related.\u00a0 We\u2019ve taken you to small villages, medieval cities, a trade show and great wine bars.\u00a0 This month, we\u2019d like to suggest that everyone take a very close look at a very special place: your own immediate … Continue reading A Fantastic Place to Visit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}