Spring Visitors

We had some recent visitors to the Rego Point Diner, first was Erik, who was here in late May. While he was here we went to the NYC Transit Museum which I had always heard was great but was a big disappointment! The best part was the old ads in the old timey subway cars they had but the museum was lacking in secret subway info.

To make up for it we snuck into the Amtrak tunnel under Riverside Park at 125th Street. This tunnel was unused for a long time and was one of the main tunnels that the "mole people" were living in until the early 90's when Amtrak started running trains through again. Because of this and the tunnel's wide area on each side of the track it became a graffiti hotspot. The tunnel has lots of skylights that let light shine down onto the walls to create natural graffiti canvases like the ones behind Erik here. We only walked to 100th street (each street is marked with a sign in the tunnel) but the tunnel goes all the way to 72nd.

If we had gotten to the end of the tunnel we would have come out right where Andrea and I went to go see the transit of Venus on June 5th! When she took this picture at around 7PM we weren't sure if we would see the transit at all because the sun would be setting around 8 and it had been cloudy all day. We walked to the end of the pier and then back to the telescopes and right then the sun came out from behind a cloud and we saw Venus for about 30 seconds, perfect timing!

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