New York 29-30 May 2015
Shelduck
Neil Hegarty
Tue 2 Jun 2015 10:12
Friday and Saturday 29th and 30th May.
On Friday morning at noon Anne and I had lunch at the Boat Basin Cafe nearby
with Joe and Gretta O'Brien. I had stayed in New York with them on my
honeymoon with Angela in 1963 and met them again here on our 40th
anniversary. Gretta (nee O'Callaghan) is Angela's first cousin. After lunch
Anne and I walked up 79th Street to Central Park where we took the Big Bus
tour of Uptown and afterwards dined on Shelduck. Next morning a short walk
to Broadway and then the Subway to Times Square where we took the Big Bus
Downtown tour. We broke it and got off to see the Highline garden but first
had breakfast in a 1950's Diner. Angela and I did much of our eating in
Diners in 1963. The Highline was well worth the stop, it is World Class, the
detailing in particular. Then back on the Big Bus to Times Square and by
Subway to Shelduck.
Sean O'Sullivan had managed to get us a table in the Four Seasons restaurant
for dinner at the Seagram Building for 17.30. The restaurant itself was
designed by Phillip Johnson in 1959. I met him at his famous Glass House
home in Connecticut in 1963. He lunched at the Four Seasons every day until
he died in his nineties. Anne and I took a taxi there and enjoyed delicious
food in a wonderful atmosphere of elegance, sophistication and quietness. At
19.30 we took a taxi back to Shelduck where Anne's cousins Maureen, her
daughter Dawn and grandchildren Johna and John joined us aboard for chat and
photographs to record the occasion. Anne and I retired very tired at 23.00.
