Midtown, 56th Street Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues

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56th Street between Fifth and Sixth looks back at big buildings to the east (see half of the broken pediment of the Sony Building on Madison), and forward to big buildings to the west, but here on this block, there are lots of old 3, 4 and 5 story buildings, as you can see here in this long shot.




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And there's the uptown version of Joe's Shanghai, famed for its soup dumplings (the soup is inside the dumplings, and they are good, good, good).  However, long before soup dumplings existed in Manhattan, Bill and I and FL and I made the arduous journey to Queens to try soup dumplings at Goody's, and my loyalties lie with Goody's as having the first and the better dumplings.  Later, they opened a branch in Chinatown on East Broadway, and later than that, they closed.  As far as I can tell, they no longer exist at all.  Oh, it's so sad.

But back to 56th Street.



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And these two cuties, one housing Sushiya.  If you check out the link, you can read a review that mentions the line at Abercrombie and Fitch's.  It seems to be an everyday thing.