While at the AMNH we very wisely decided not to have lunch in the museum itself, and instead walked out into the cold to have lamb gyros and coffee at Niko’s, a cramped but delicious Greek diner at W 76th and Broadway.

Walking back along W 77th we found a little string hanging on the fence of a schoolyard, which when pulled would ring a bell on a tree. A little sign by the makeshift bellpull complained of vandals, while nearby a toy train announced the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, two days over by then.