Prospect Park (Saturday through Thursday) If it seems a bit too cold for outdoor play, Prospect Park in Brooklyn also offers indoor pleasures.
For most New Yorkers, September means forsaking the pleasures of the beach for indoor pursuits.
Ice skating for pleasure remains a popular pastime and an indoor ice skating rink exists nearby in the concourse of the 'Le 1000 de la Gauchetiere' office building, open year-round.
For Dr. Novacek, 53, paleontologist and senior vice president of the museum, life is a constant pull between the indoor duties of a museum administrator and the outdoor pleasures of roaming the world searching for the bones of extinct animals.
Conversely, indoor basketball or squash courts are added for homeowners' "own pleasure, not for resale".
And standing next to the circuit, like a megalomaniac's pleasure dome, is Ferrari World, vaunted as the world's largest indoor theme park and consisting entirely of Ferrari-related rides and exhibits.
Or from any of the other poolside celebrity pleasure domes (Dinah Shore's, Bing Crosby's, Lucille Ball's), with their bubbling indoor fountains, cookie-cutter windows and furnishings that broke all the rules of geometry.
Both are bachelors, indoor sorts, who enjoy the comforts of a cozy domesticity; both are secretive; both take pleasure in plots and schemes.
Breweries are a useful model for testing general theories of microbial transmission and spoilage-gene dispersal in situ for functional indoor environments and food systems, as beer spoilage is not actually detrimental to human health merely human pleasure.
I take breaks only for lunch, a mid-afternoon snack, a short swim in the small indoor ocean-motion pool and leaning over the deck staring at the ocean, which is the greatest pleasure of all.
