St. Nicholas Avenue (The Whole Thing)

St. Nicholas Avenue in Upper Manhattan stretches from 111th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem to 193rd Street in Washington Heights — 4.4 miles total.

Basically the whole route is in the link above, and then there are breakout sections for the portion in Harlem (111th Street to 155th Street) and the portion in Washington Heights (155th Street to 193rd Street). Those add images from 2004 from other pages where streets intersected. First, St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem:

The page Harriet Tubman Square is new:

As is the page for Hancock Park:

St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights:

Manhattan Chinatown Dumplings

An afternoon of dumplings in Manhattan’s Chinatown with two taste testers. Spots cribbed from Robert Sietsema’s Eater top ten list from February 2024.

First up, Tasty Dumpling (rated 7.2 and 8.5 out of 10):

Shu Jiao Fu Zhou (rated 6.8 and 8 out of 10):

Vanessa’s Dumpling House (rated 8.7 and 8.7 out of 10):

North Dumpling (rated 9.3 and 9.5 out of 10):

Also, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory:

And duck from Great NY Noodletown to take home for dinner later on:

Ocean City, New Jersey For Christmas

The Ocean City Boardwalk in Winter, first on Christmas Day:

Then a couple nights later in the waning hours of flurries:

JiLLy’s Arcade is open daily all year round: