PC TECH’s Early Summer Activities June 28, 2013

Summer has come to New York City with a lot of heat and humidity.  Yet this time of the year presents many opportunities for outdoor activities.  Our PC TECH student have been visiting places which are famous and others which may be “off the beaten track.”

There are field trips available to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to small private art galleries in the Chelsea neighborhood, Union Square with its popular Greenmarket and Tribeca with its less-well know Amish Market, Times Square and not-so-touristy Battery Park City.

Today’s activities included one of the Metropolitan Museum’s most popular exhibitions this year, “Punk: Chaos to Culture” which the Museum describes as examining “punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today.”

Another class visited Union Square with its extensive Greenmarket, where there are fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats brought to the big city almost every morning by local producers.  Even rooftop honey is sold there.  There are beehives on top of a number of buildings in New York!

Less well-known to out-of–towners are Amish markets, also with locally grown produce.  Besides the Tribeca market, there is another that is a ten-minute walk from PC TECH.  One of our classes took a leisurely stroll to the Amish Market on 45^th Street and 3^rd Avenue, where they could enjoy a late lunch.

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