It has been a rainy ☔️ holiday weekend so far but we did not let that deter us from supporting small businesses!

It has been a rainy ☔️ holiday weekend so far but we did not let that deter us from supporting small businesses which have been struggling to survive due to rising rents and lack of business due to the pandemic. This evening, we headed in the rain to Tea & Sympathy on Greenwich Avenue in the West Village to warm up with some proper English tea ☕️ and to its sister restaurant, A Salt & Battery, a fish & chips shop. Both restaurants and its British grocery provision shop, Carry On Tea & Sympathy which is located sandwiched between the 2 restaurants are all owned by Nicky Perry, a British expat. 

We dined with our dog, Hudson @hudsonpittienyc in the outdoor dining structure and had a large pot of Earl Grey tea for two from @teaandsympathynyc and an order of both cod and haddock battered & fried fish 🐟which were absolutely delicious and an order of perfectly fried chips🍟from @asaltandbatterynyc 

• To see our livestream walk and meal at Tea & Sympathy & A Salt & Battery: Full video: https://youtu.be/MxsKeNaexlU

Yesterday we visited The Vessel at Hudson Yards on its reopening day, after being closed since January 2021.

After new safety protocols have been instituted, you can only visit in groups of two or more with timed ticket entry. 

• To see our livestream video of @thevesselnyc reopening day as we walk through every single level from the ground floor to the top, please watch & subscribe to our JamesandKarla YouTube channel. 

Direct link below and in bio: • https://youtu.be/vKnk9DvS6zE

In our NYC LIVE Thunderstorm & Rainbow with Sunset over New York City, we have a window chat while looking at the thunderstorm with lightning strikes which hit NYC in the evening of May 26, 2021.

We also see a gorgeous double rainbow 🌈 over New York City before the sunset! 

Full video: https://youtu.be/mOuZeL6eSGw

The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883!

In honor of this New York City icon’s birthday, we are highlighting the Fish Market bar & restaurant on South Street near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge and South Street Seaport in Manhattan. 

We really love it’s timeworn facade and signage. 

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Yesterday was the birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge as it first opened 138 years ago!

In honor of this New York City icon’s birthday, we are highlighting the Bridge Cafe on Water Street at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan. This historic restaurant and bar was originally opened in 1794 as a grocery and wine and porter bottler. 

Sadly the building which houses the Bridge Cafe was severely damaged during Hurricane Sandy and remains closed today. 

Our night photo of Bridge Café appears in our book “New York Nights”.

The Jones restaurant formerly known as the Great Jones Cafe on Great Jones Street near the Bowery in the Village sadly has closed.

The original Great Jones Cafe serving Cajun/Creole food closed in 2018 after 35 years in business. Even though the red-orange exterior with blue trim and bust of Elvis remained, the revived Jones, which opened in 2019 served seafood and the interior was completed modernized so it really never had the same bohemian feel. R.I.P. Great Jones Cafe. 

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We visited @manerospizza yesterday & purchased both a classic cheese slice and a Margherita slice as part of our NYC LIVE Pizza Battle Lower East Side Of Manhattan Head to Head Taste Test.

To see which pizza 🍕 won our taste test battle, please watch our live video: 

https://youtu.be/REV0-IDWGjs 

Manero’s Pizza 🍕on Mulberry Street in the Lower East Side was founded in 2019 and is named for the main character in “Saturday Night Fever”, Tony Manero, (played by John Travolta) who goes to the Bensonhurst pizzeria, Lenny’s Pizza and gets a double-decker slice.