2025 June 30: Manhattan

Checked out of the Brooklyn AirBnB and in to the Chelsea Inn.

Not the Chelsea Hotel, thought it seemed too good to be true (more on that later):

The Chelsea Inn is not bad; small rooms but in a newly renovated pre-war walk-up on w 17th st near Union Square. 4*:

Here’s Union Square in the AM:

Good gelato around the corner:

Evening, met Adrienne in the lower east-side for cocktails/apperizers & dinner.

THE BEST appetizer in NY: happy hour at Bar Belly - oysters, $1 apiece:

Funky-good bar in that neighborhood:

And dinner at Kiki’s - excellent appetizers, RETSINA, so-so entree:

…and the late-night stroll to the subway. Lower east-side has the highest density of funky-cool establishments of the neighborhoods we visited over the month: