On 42nd St. and Sixth Avenue, my dog, Jordan, decided it was time to go to the bathroom.
De Witt Clinton Park, on 5.8 acres from 52nd to 54th Streets and 11th to 12th Avenues, includes a dog run, sports fields, a playground and a perennial garden.
Poised nose to nose in the avenue were a large dog and a bellicose lizard.
As the boat crossed another avenue, we spotted a dog trying to swim, its head just above the water.
Elizabeth may seem an unlikely summer destination, but Tommy's Italian Sausage and Hot Dogs on Second Avenue gives a new spin to the term "dog days".
There was even a place up on Fullerton Avenue by DePaul University called Demon Dogs that was a completely Chicago-themed hot dog joint.
At Papaya Dog, on Sixth Avenue in the West Village, she bought chicken wings to take to the premiere.
Susan Barron, a psychologist, was out walking her dog on First Avenue on a Saturday morning last October when a deranged man set on her with carving knives that he had just stolen from a restaurant.
But the Salty Dog on Third Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where black and purple bunting hung above the bar's bright red garage door, had its own special connection with that grief: Firefighter Graffagnino tended bar there on the side.
It ambles up an avenue, sniffing bushes where other dogs have marked -- "checking the mail," as they say in dog parlance.
Tommy's Italian Sausage and Hot Dogs, 900 Second Avenue, Elizabeth; (908) 351-9081.
