Unexpected New York

With Sandy Miller, author of "Café Life New York" and a writer for several years (Super Traveler and New York City Street Smarts) and a children's book publisher for nearly 20 years.

This illustrated talk is filled with surprises that add texture and richness to life in the Big Apple.  Wild peacocks, parrots, and raccoons rather than the Bronx Zoo; cricket, lawn bowling, surfboarding, and pistol shooting rather than the Yankees and the Mets; a Japanese pagoda-inspired house and a Frank Lloyd Wright house rather than a Brooklyn brownstone or the Empire State building; wineries, rolling ladder manufacturers, and fishing tackle businesses rather than the New York Stock Exchange; key lime pies not seltzer; fragments of the Berlin Wall and Gaudi-like mosaic benches rather than the Guggenheim or the Met; a statue of Lenin rather than the Statue of Liberty.