Today, while walking across the Boston Public Gardens I saw workers unloading the swan boats (in sections) and it struck me as one of the undeniable signs of spring. Other things that assure me that spring is here: seeing the first Duck Boat, the Boston Marathon, and Lilac Sunday in the Arboretum.
Well, it’s the time of the year when last year’s mobsters start bobbing to the surface in the Hudson River . . .
I actually do have a favorite early-spring block: I think it’s 35th–36th Street, on Madison Avenue. Right now the trees are blossoming, and when you walk along that block, the tops of the trees block the view of the skyscrapers in the background. All you can see below the blossoms are the 19th-century buildings across the street. So as long as no vehicles are going by, you can momentarily imagine yourself strolling along in 1880 New York on a spring morning . . .