Levain Bakery & Strawberry Fields

My roommate Ryan loves chocolate chip cookies and as such is always on a quest to discover the "best cookie ever".  According to Yelp and some other sources, a bakery called Levain Bakery (http://www.levainbakery.com/) on the Upper West Side has the best cookie in New York City.  

1600 reviews and 4.5 stars later, we set out to try it for ourselves.  They only serve 4 types of cookies: chocolate chip walnut, double chocolate, chocolate peanut butter, and oatmeal raisin.  

I tried the chocolate chip walnut which was still hot from the oven.  The cookie was delicious and huge!!!

Afterwards we headed to Central Park and found ourselves at the John Lennon "Imagine" memorial in a part of the park renamed "Strawberry Fields" in his memory.

This part of the park is right outside of the building he lived in and was shot outside of, the Dakota.

New Life

I am starting this blog over as of tonight.  Here are some pictures I've taken this summer in NYC:

From the rooftop of a SoHo hotel, looking downtown towards the World Trade Center.

Another hotel rooftop, this time in the Lower East Side, looking uptown towards the Empire State Building and everything else!

A view of midtown east from Queens withe the Chrysler Building, UN Headquarters, and Trump Tower.

Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park with the Manhattan Bridge in the background.

Lower Manhattan

someday i will put up some more pictures...

...until then, here is a kind of blurry shot of the houses of parliament I took while riding a bike. LOL.

st. paul's cathedral at sunset

this is a cool van gogh

Paris, France.

canterbury

leeds castle

preparing for the 2012 summer olympics

Olympic rings hoisted in the main station of London's St. Pancras train station!  This is the first thing people from all over Europe will see in London if they take the train to London for the games.

shot of st. paul's cathetral from across the river thames

random shot of the palace of westminster (parliament building)

works from the tate modern

bath, england

stonehenge

how mysterious...

barcelona, spain

then my camera died

some pictures from berlin, germany

berlin tv tower

brandenburg gate 

german parliament building 

holocaust memorial 

 view from the top of the tv tower

berlin wall

london eye

Some homies