We are now seeing such a different side to this city in our haven on Mulberry Street. So different from Midtown where we first stayed. ( understatement) We’re at the crossroads of Chinatown and Little Italy. We can buy any type of food we want, except butter; everything is cheaper; we have a warm, inviting and spacious loft with an elevator that opens into it directly and we can still get uptown quickly on the subway which is, mostly, easy to use.
When I leave the loft and walk onto the streets it’s as if I am in a whole new world, and when I exit the subway midtown or uptown , I walk up and out into a completely different one as well.
BIG bonus for our first few days here was that the 88th annual feast of San Gennaro was held right in our street. Basically there were crowds eating and drinking non stop, and having photos near the shrine outside the back of the church. They had to pay of course. There was a cannoli eating competition which I am glad I missed. But also a procession and a Blessing of the Stalls.
The church next door is The Church of The Most Precious Blood. San Gennaro has two phials of blood in a church in Naples. They are in solid form. Twice a year they liquify, so we celebrate the liquification! Ah-mazing.
Oh, next big bonus of living here is that, now, the feast is over. Streets are back to normal noisy as opposed to crazy noisy, but it was certainly colourful and buzzing when we arrived in the middle of it. It was fun.
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