Friday was stinking hot again. Ambling was the order of the day so we ambled through Chelsea looking for Matthew Broderick (apartment on 9th Ave apparently) but got bored so stepped into Chelsea Market to cool off. This industrial zone looked great, bare brick, steel girders, exposed pipes and spooky lighting housing an upscale farmers market. Beautiful shops selling lovely things to eat so we were in heaven. We bought some picnic items for later that day then rode the subway uptown to go to Zabars the legendary shop/deli. This gourmet paradise had us peeing ourselves with pleasure while inspecting the huge cheese, meat, and coffee counters. We bought more picnic items then headed to the park to scoff them (the potato and spinach knishes were sublime). As it now felt like 120° we found a nice bench in some shade in the gardens of the American Natural History Museum where we watched the locals walk their dogs and uptown nannies congregate to gossip.
After a few hours we were refreshed enough to go book shopping at Borders and then we fought off the perfume militia in Saks. Our evening entertainment was a trip to the movies to see the new Romero horror ‘Land Of The Dead’. George Romero rules! I loved it. It was gory yet intelligent, thought provoking and funny and had Dennis Hopper in it. We ate designer hot dogs at F&B before heading to bed.

Manhattan Bridge, The Earth and Space Centre at The Natural History Musuem and a fantastic trumpeter who accompanied a drummer and sounded like A Certain Ratio. (click to enlarge)