[Fiji Hill]

If I were to make another visit to New York City, here are some things I would like to do:

• Worship at the John street Methodist Church, the oldest Methodist church in the country. The famous hymn writer Fanny Crosby was a parishioner there.

• Visit the US Federal Courthouse for the Southern District of New York, site of many famous trials. The Rosenbergs, who swiped our atomic bomb secrets and turned them over to Stalin were convicted here as were the Communist Party leaders who in 1949 tried to turn the courtroom into a circus before being sent off to jail.

• Visit the Grand Hyatt Hotel. In 1948, when it was the Commodore Hotel, it was the site of the famous confrontation between Soviet spy Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, who exposed him.

• Go to Brooklyn or Queens to have lunch or dinner at an Italian restaurant run by real Italian-Americans--not Koreans, Middle Easterners or other non-Italians as is so often the case out here.

• Go to a Jewish delicatessen to pick up some rye bread to take home.

[Vendome]

Agreed.

Eli’s Bread Factory at 91st and Lexington. Not as famous as that other place but, I use to drive into Manhattan, very early, and park in the garage across the street.

Drop my dog off at the best dog kennel ever, back across the street “See Spot Run” and then have breakfast at Eli’s.

Coffee is so damned good.

There is also a fantastic grocery on the bottom floor, through another entrance.