Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included in the ticket price, and we dine under white canvas awnings with crisp tablecloths and wine in real glasses.
When it rained, I had to go back down to the Ave and shelter under awnings with a miscellany of street types who had also been driven from their burrows.
There was no organization to it: people tied their cattle to bushes, rigged up awnings with colored cloth on sticks or tipped rope beds on their ends to create shade from the stifling heat of 104 degrees.
Seven terrace suites at the 135-room Bowery Hotel on the Lower East Side feature outdoor fixtures shaded by awnings with views ranging from the Empire State Building to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Women bundled in fur coats push grocery carts full of cured meats and ripened vegetables down the streets, and awnings with Cyrillic lettering advertise restaurants where the specialty of the house is a steaming bowl of Ukrainian borscht.
Awnings with sunshine-yellow and white stripes dotted the fairgrounds recently, members driving payloaders hauled last bits of dirt outside new restrooms equipped with flush toilets and modern fixtures (which the old fair did not have), and volunteers scrubbed windows.
