The City Quilter

On Friday, July 1, 2011, at about 1:00 PM, we checked out of our hotel on 40th Street and walked down to The City Quilter on 25th Street. This was a pilgrimage for Sherry. We had walked here on a previous trip, but it was closed. Sherry hoped to find some fabric here that she had been unable to find in Tampa.

Sherry inside The City Quilter.

It turned out not to be as big a store as we have at home. (A bit of a disappointment!) But Sherry did find the fabric that she was looking for.

They had some very nice quilts on display.

(Click on the image to see a much better copy.)

Quilts based on New York City postage stamps.

After The City Quilter we started back to our hotel to collect our car and baggage. Fortunately we could leave the car parked for up to 24 hours at the same cost even though we had to check out of the hotel by 1:00 PM. We looked for a quaint little offbeat pub for lunch. These are harder to find in Manhattan than you might expect, but we did find one, The Molly Wee Pub at 8th Avenue and 30 Street, on the way back to the hotel. They say that Molly Wee is Irish for "yellow hill."

We had a nice lunch in the uncrowded pub and called the hotel to retrieve our car (30 minutes advance notice required.) It was waiting for us on the street in front of the hotel when we got back.

Now the hard part, getting out of New York City at the start of the Fourth of July holiday weekend. We didn't have any illusion that this would be easy. Traffic on I95 northbound had been seriously congested the day before as we were going south into the city. By "seriously congested" I mean miles of cars more or less sitting still. Getting into the city had been fairly easy, as most people were trying to get out. Getting out of New York City would turn out to be an adventure. But that will be another post.