This morning, I had occasion to come out of the subway at Herald Square. I needed to be over on 32nd & 1st Avenue. With morning traffic, I thought I'd get there just as quickly by walking than by catching a cab or bus. I've walked east on 34th Street several times, but today I walked on 32nd St.
For a couple of blocks from 6th Ave to Madison on 32nd is a small Korean community. I'd been so close to this but hadn't seen it. I spotted a couple of restaurants that deserve some more attention. It could be a nice weekend stroll with my wife and daughter.
I appreciate some of the ethnic enclaves here in NYC. Back in 2005, before I had relocated here, I spent a long weekend here. On the Monday before I had to go to the airport, I started at Battery Park and walked north. On the way, I ventured through Chinatown and ended up on a street that was hardly bigger than an alley. All the windows of the businesses there had Chinese words. The newspapers were written in Chinese. The people spoke Chinese. I was the only caucasian there. And then, just steps away, I was in Little Italy. Today, it was Korea. Tomorrow, it might be Ghana.
Ah, Excellent.
ReplyDeleteI have been intending to visit Korea-Town to look for a replacement hat that my dad got in South Korea several years ago. I even Google-mapped it. But I haven't been there yet. Maybe next week.
Google is clairvoyant.
ReplyDeleteOr scary.
This link just posted at the top of my gmail screen -- "Local Stop - Koreatown; Midtown’s Hidden World"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/nyregion/07koreatown.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Did Google/Gmail know that I had posted the above interest,.. or was it just lucky?