Part 1: The New York Times review made me do it. If you click on the review and give a read you will learn what is typically New York City. To wit:

David’s Brisket House and Deli is in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Once majestic it became blighted and crestfallen and was in no way a place you’d care to visit. But, like most areas of New York City in marginal areas, it is becoming–drumroll, cymbals–gentrified, which means the rents and prices of the old staid brownstones will be unaffordable.

But this isn’t why I find this eatery so interesting. David’s is owned by Yemeni Muslims who specialize in Jewish Deli cuisine and they do it proudly and well and the place is a pig-out haven. Then again, I think I better not use the word pig. Let’s say that after the first bite you can’t, I say cannot stop eating. The ambiance is “dive” and no one cares, it’s the food, it is the remarkable food that pulls them in and every table is filled and the line snakes past the soda machine. Whites, blacks, Asians, Indians, they are all her packing in the pastrami, the brisket, the fries, the home made slaw. [photography © SRK2012]

What does this teach us? Shalom Aleichem! Saalam alaikum! pastrami, baby! Jewish deli prepared by Sinbad, Sultan, Walweed and Riyadh, and they do as good a job as Irving and Moishe. Pass the mustard.

Part 2
The Brooklyn Museum
Target First Saturday
Once stuffed and barely able to walk with no intention of eating another bite (OK, I had yogurt at 9:00 pm) I found myself back at the Brooklyn Museum for the monthly first Saturday celebration which features live music, special exhibit tours and an outdoor dance party in warmer weather.

The new first floor exhibit was open, a melange of art that crossed time, linking the temporal and spatial through the ages. The sneaker sculpture is actually an African coffin; it is illustrative of the deceased’s modernity.

I just chilled and took photos of the two groups that performed, and continued to digest a great day.
This drawing looks suspiciously like the author…

reply forgetmenot525 wrote on May 7 Hi Sue, what a wonderful array of photos you have here………The museum looks so interesting, you are lucky to have places like that within easy reach.