But the group of multiethnic friends I had hoped to find sprawled out studying, the Campanile perfectly framed in the background, must have been congregating elsewhere that day.
Farther downhill was the Tasty Treat, one of those seasonal places that twin seafood with ice cream, and then the Marathon Deli, whose owner, Doug Fifield, handled a business affected by the closed road and the crowds congregated elsewhere, at T. J.'s. "Kinda slow," he recalled, with a shrug of acceptance to the vagaries of capitalism.
The first notion seems somewhat plausible, the second verges on laughable: during fall Saturdays, New Yorkers who moved from elsewhere congregate at whatever bar their alumni organization has coopted as a meeting point, while natives simply wait until Sunday.
Dale DeGroff, arguably the city's dean of mixology, told me that if he's not away on business, he drops in on Mr. Quinn at least once a week, often past 2 a.m., when bartenders getting off work elsewhere congregate at P. J. Clarke's — the original one on Third Avenue at 55th Street, not the spinoffs near Lincoln Center or at the World Financial Center.
Elsewhere, western jackdaws congregate over winter in the Ural Valley in north-western Kazakhstan, the north Caspian, and the Tian Shan region of western China.
Calling Boyle Heights "the Ellis Island of the West," Lopez, who is Casa's founding artistic director, puts particular emphasis on it as a place of openness in a past of housing covenants, when Latinos, Asians, blacks, Jews and others congregated there because they were barred elsewhere.
Though dry summers are the best time for watching wildlife, as waterholes and riverbeds elsewhere dry out and animals congregate in few water sources present and conserved inside the parks.
Fans said the Raconteur was what the urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg called a Third Space, that place in addition to home and work — maybe a neighborhood bar, maybe the local barber shop — where people can congregate to find communion they do not get elsewhere.
They're gorgeous birds.' " She acknowledged that the birds — which also congregate in a nearby park and can be seen elsewhere in Edgewater and even in nearby Leonia — are especially animated in the morning.
Here they could congregate as they always had, ignoring jets that mostly dropped their bombs elsewhere.
