Central Park and Sunday in The City

With the sheers open, a beautiful morning in the city.

Still on Pacific time, Mrs. SFO777 was sound asleep. So I headed out across the street to Central Park. What a gorgeous morning.

Back in the room, for our "free" FHR breakfast.

Down to the lobby and out the door, we met Chito, our Empire CLS driver for the day and headed out to explore the different neighborhoods on our list, and stop by a few open houses. First stop was a 10:30am appointment just up the street at 25 Central Park West. Nice art deco building.

But OK, this is a lttle small and unexciting.

Then to the Upper West Side. Nice feel, lots of neighborhood restaurants and bars.

The across Central Park to the Upper East Side and then down to Midtown East...

... and the Sutton Place enclave where we have an appointment tomorrow.

Then back up to E. 68th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue for an open house. OK, this is nice.

Then down to E. 51st Street and 1st Avenue. Nice building, good space and terrific city views.

And a lively, fun looking neighborhood.

Next we headed up to another open house that was advertised as Upper Carnegie Hill. Turned out to be about 12 blocks north in a neighborhood that I'll charitably describe as "scruffy". We passed on even stopping and turned back south on Fifth Avenue, then over to tony Park Avenue.

And down to 20th Street for an amazing late lunch at iconic Gramercy Tavern.

Mrs. SFO777's poussin was incredible.

My pork was exquisite.

What an wonderful and very reasonable meal. In the face of the NYC $15 minimum wage, Gramercy has switched to a no tipping policy. Our prix fix lunch including 3 glasses of wine was only $124 including tax and service.

After lunch, we continued south to take a look at Greenwich, Tribecca and finally Battery Park City. Interesting but not our kind of neighborhoods. As Mrs. SFO777 opined, too many effing millenials. LOL.

Some gorgeous apartments at the Ritz-Carlton residences, but Battery Park City is just not a real neighborhood. Plus you can't walk any restaurants worth visiting.