Larry; lovely olfactory descriptions! I am trying to remember from a trip to NYC ten years back...is St. Marks Place where that big spinning cube statue is? and isn't St. Marks Place subway station the one with the beavers???

It smelled pretty much like the rest of NYC to me, but if pressed, I can conjure up what different areas smell like...once had a vivid rush of deja vu on the upper West Side, when the smell of an Italian dish seasoned with basil and thyme wafted out, wham! I was in my grandfather's kitchen back in western NY... too bad Little Italy is almost gone, it used to smell real good around there...I mean, it still does, it just smells like Chinatown now...and i love the dusty smell of that shop in the West Village where they sell old chess sets...

so does Bagatelle have good beer? I'd rather smell the remnants of Guinness or Beamish or Murphy's or Bass than Budweiser any day... and I hope they have a decent single malt selection ;0

looking forward to my visit to the apple

peg