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I got a mushroom omelette sandwich and Neal got the chicken and waffles. This place was lovely and still serving brunch at 2:30.

We were in search of food and decided on Uptown Garrisonon 181st. There are quite a few stone bridges that look beautiful with the fall leaves all around them, and huge boulders that people definitely climb on (despite the no climbing signs). It’s teeming with black and grey squirrels. The park is multi-layered and has really nice easy walkways throughout it. We left The Met Cloisters and ventured south through Fort Tryon Park. This museum is pay-what-you-want for New Yorkers and we got our $10 worth. I loved the communal feel of creating something together. I was so impressed! Some people were using pastels, some pencils, some pens. A young kid did a stellar depiction of a Romanesque statue.

We saw people in several rooms taking the opportunity to sketch what they saw. When you walk in, there are numerous chairs with sketchbooks and utensils to help get you started creating something. This place seems like a bastion for creativity and inspiration. There also are a lot of tombs in the chapel and some absolutely stunning stained glass. They also have the famous unicorn tapestries here, which was kind of exciting to see because Neal and I did a puzzle last year of the Unicorn in Captivity tapestry! I supposed that’s still true today, but there’s something about a tiny ancient book that makes you wonder why? Tiny pockets? Trying to get more use out of that magnifying glass? But they’re very cool and come in every size imaginable. Some really look more like art than books you’re supposed to read, with images over or all around the words. There were a lot of a tapestries, pieces of furniture, jewelry, vases and books. The artifacts here are mostly from the 1300s.

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They provided both archways and windows to the gardens and a glimpse of the people walking along the other side. Many of these columns were very interesting, too. Columns line the cloisters, giving you an open-air walkway around the center. One looked overgrown, but there was something sort of right about an old cloister having some natural overgrowth. One cloister had gardens with food growing in them, another had potted plants. They’re gorgeous even in late November as the plants all wilt. The Cloisters have gardens and areas to sit in their center. It’s literally a slice of Europe in the United States, and feels like it. But extravagant is exactly the word I would use to describe the man that later acquired them for the museum: John D. The whole concept of picking something like this up and dropping it in Manhattan is a little extravagant to say the least. It contains four cloisters that were dismantled in Europe and brought on over to their new home in Manhattan. It has a ton of medieval-era art and artifacts. The Met Cloisters is a museum that’s a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We checked out the grounds, but weren’t too interested in going in.ĭyckman Farmhouse The Met Cloisters What they are and how they got to NYC It definitely stands out from the 6-7 floor apartment buildings that are everywhere in this area. You also can check out Dyckman Farmhouse before heading to the Cloisters if you’re into old houses/furniture. Their typical hours of operation are from March–October: 10 am–5 pm and November–February: 10 am–4:30 pm. The Met Cloisters are just south of the subway station. It’s around a half hour from Times Square. You take the A train straight to Dyckman Street. It’s quite easy to get up to the Met Cloisters. All in all a great local OR tourist adventure! Getting There That’s what we did this past weekend and we got to visit the Met Cloisters, the beautiful Fort Tryon Park, and walk across the George Washington Bridge. If you go far enough, you get to Inwood/ Washington Heights and the George Washington Bridge area. I’ve even heard anything below 60th! But of course Manhattan is a loooong island that reaches up into the 200s. Sometimes New Yorkers think of Manhattan as whatever is below 125th.