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#CatTravels: From Central Park to Farmingville

By Catherine Toth Fox • April 21, 2013 • #CatTravels, Food

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It was going to be a long day.

We had planned to make the trek from Murray Hill to Central Park, clear across Manhattan, looking for bakeries and restaurants and street vendors along the way.

Then I was hopping on the Long Island Rail Road to Farmingville, a little suburb about 90 minutes east of lower Manhanttan to stay with my cousins.

And we had a lot to do.

I still wanted to see Eataly, an Italian food court in the Flatiron District; the Union Square Greenmarket, a vibrant farmer’s market; and any bakery that sold black-and-white cookies.

And there was still Central Park.

So we started early.

Here’s what Saturday — and my last day in the city — looked like:

Cupcakes for breakfast

Cupcakes for breakfast
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It was a long night, and I had lugged around this box of mini cupcakes from popular bakery Baked by Melissa. (This was a gift from Sara and Ryan the night before.) These mini bites made the perfect breakfast the next morning!

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5 Comments

  • Reply Annoddah Dave April 22, 2013 at 7:58 am

    CAT: Thanks again for a great travelogue. I hate packing and unpacking…and sitting in economy!

  • Reply matt April 22, 2013 at 8:12 am

    darn. looking at your pics of the union square farmer’s market reminded me of a product that I should have recommended to: ginger maple syrup. I found it at a vendor there a couple of years ago and it’s damned good. guess you have to go back.

  • Reply David Jackson April 22, 2013 at 8:40 am

    Loved photos 18-20, in 18 I can see my former father in law’s coop overlooking the boat pond… 15th floor on the corner of 74th and 5th. The red tails used to sit on his ledge and eat their prey. It was something else eating lunch and watching a hawk dismember a rat or mouse or whatever. My in laws let some publication come inside and film it a long time ago. For the record, this series has been my favorite so far. Excellent work! Wish you’d had a chance to walk the MET so I could relive a lot more good memories. Aloha!

  • Reply De April 22, 2013 at 11:20 am

    Now I want to go back to NY. I went almost two years ago and surely didn’t do as much as you did. I had two kids and another family with me but with your pictures and descriptions… it seems like I didn’t appreciate all the things I should have. Next time I will book my trips after you visit….hey I should go down under.

  • Reply Eric April 23, 2013 at 12:07 am

    More great pictures!
    The union square green market is very colorful in the fall.
    Westside isn’t so shi-shi as the east side. It’s more hipster these days. Back in the late 80’s it was a bit more colorful & grimey. Now it’s a bit gentrified. I’m surprised you didn’t get to Zabars or Fairway for food shopping, or Barney’ green grass for breakfast on the Upper West Side.
    Looks like you need more trips & time in the NYC!

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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