A Man in a Bar

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Not long ago I went into Manhattan to meet some friends/former colleagues for a drink. I arrived early and while waiting for my friends to arrive I noticed this man sitting at the bar, his head bowed over his beer.

You might think that this is just a picture of a sad, lonely old guy drowning his sorrows at the bar, but you’d be wrong. He was actually very animated. He seemed to be a friend of the bartender, and they had a fairly long and cheerful conversation while the man drank a single beer. After that he paid and left.

Just goes to show how photographs can, and do deceive even without AI and Photoshop.

Taken with a Sony RX100 MVII.

To Halsey Pond Park and Back – Back at Here Coffee and Beer again

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I eventually got to Irvington Station and took the train back to Ossining. By this time, I guess I’d been walking for about two hours, my legs were aching, and my feet were hurting so I decided to stop at Here Coffee and Beer for a while. I took a few pictures of a few of the people who were also there.

Above: Working Hard

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Waiting for coffee

Taken with a Sony RX10 IV

Presentation on the Congregation Sons of Israel

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In the preceding post I wrote about the Congregation Sons of Israel Cemetery. In it I mentioned that I had learned about the cemetery from a presentation on the synagogue organized by the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society. Shortly afterwards I realized that I had not done a post on that presentation, so here goes.

This year the Briarcliff Manor Scarborough Historical Society has organized a number of presentations on the Village’s Houses of Worship. The presentation took place, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 7:00 pm at the Congregation Sons of Israel (CSI). Mr. Irwin Kavy presented a comprehensive history of the synagogue. A highlight of the presentation was when Mr. Kavy showed a time capsule that had been found in the building that previously housed the synagogue. He also showed and described the contents. The presentation ended with a lengthy Q&A that provoked an enthusiastic response from the participants. A video of his presentation is now available courtesy of Mr. Kavy and the CSI.

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Taken with a Sony A7IV and Rokinon/Samyang AF 24-70 f2.8 FE

Lyndhurst

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For those who don’t know the area:

Lyndhurst is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in a 67-acre park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. The home was designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis and owned in succession by New York City mayor William Paulding Jr., merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould. Paulding named his house “Knoll”. Its limestone exterior was quarried in present-day Ossining, New York. Merritt, the house’s second owner, doubled the size of the house in 1864–1865 and renamed it “Lyndenhurst”. His new north wing included an imposing four-story tower, a new porte-cochere, a new dining room, two bedrooms and servants’ quarters. Gould purchased the property in 1880 to use as a country house. He shortened its name to “Lyndhurst” and occupied it until his death in 1892. In 1961, Gould’s daughter Anna Gould donated it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The house is now open to the public.

I went there just before Christmas with my friends George and Martha. Although I’ve been to, and through the property many times I’ve never actually been inside. It was good to see the interior. As you can see they had put a lot of effort into preparing for Christmas. Maybe too much. Very festive, but maybe a Christmas tree (sometimes more) it every room was a bit too much

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Taken with a Sony RX100 M3