Postcards from New York

Snipets of New York, compiled over several trips:

• A woman, riding the subway and wearing earphones, keeping beat by moving only her toes.

• A restaurant with only 18 seats, making the most amazing vegetarian food for a bunch of omnivores.

• Two men, holding open a subway car door and encouraging the people running down the stairs to hurray up to make the train. It was clear that no one knew each other.

• The sound of a far off trumpeter wafting through subway tunnels and hallways to passersby.

• The feeling of being on top of the world, when really you are only on the 16th floor of an apartment building.