Sara D Roosevelt Park
February 21st, 2012 by Mr. C
Sara D. Roosevelt park provides a green oasis in the urban trenches of lower manhattan that stretches from east Houston to Canal street bordered between Chrystie & Forsyth on the lower east side all the way down to chinatown. On a nice early sunday morning stroll in this park, you will bear witness to dragons being suspended in the air to the stillness and serenity of tai chi practitioners to the fast pace games of basketball, soccer, & handball. The Hua Mei bird garden on the Delancey street side of the park will bring a bit of old school china into Sara D. with finches, songbirds, sparrows, & blue jays chirping in their bamboo bird cages. Cross over to the other side of the delancey and you will see the Golden Age center for senior citizens as well as other raggamuffins drifting about. Central Park is nice and beautiful but the heartbeat of the poor to working class immigrant population in NYC can be truly felt in this green & concrete space.
After a nice city up walk at Sara D, I finally ventured into CHEEKY SANDWICHES to get a taste of new orleans in the L-E-S! They’ve been open for quite a while now but Cheeky was always quite elusive in my schedule. My heart rate was racing something furious after eating their sinful breakfast sandwich, a fried chicken cutlet smothered with country gravy, topped with purple slaw trapped between a buttery biscuit! Ohhh yeaaah, it was all so good! It was all hosed down with a cup of Cafe Du Monde coffee! Stop by Cheeky’s to get some beignets or “Ben Yays” as they wrote it for the linguistically impaired, an oyster or shrimp po boy, and/or one of their sinful breakfast sandwiches! Cheeky Sandwiches is located at 35 Orchard Street between Hester and Canal. Don’t blink though, Cheeky’s diminutive and undercover storefront can be quite elusive as well!
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