Invitingly warm days bring delicious life to Battery Park. Not only do the smells of hallal food line the grounds, various street art vendors sit by their works, watching for possible customers. The artists’ bounty is endless: caricatures, cityscapes, Disney characters, abstract paintings, and more.  These aren’t famous or recognized artists, but more of that of ordinary New Yorkers, and it’s as if our surroundings and current culture are all captured here, in visual form. Each stand displays its own distinctive expression; they are life encased on square canvas. Buy a cold canned drink for a buck, and browse at your leisure on a sunny day!

Streams of people, guided in and out of glass doors by the irresistible hand of Fashion, pack the streets. All around, huge letters and bright declarations of “Fashion Night’s Out” remind all of us of the obvious. How could one possibly ignore the hundreds of fashionistas (and fashionistos), each displaying their unique style, hustling from one store to another? And each store, all showcasing their own distinct, instantly recognizable concept, bursts with the latest of the latest! The free items, alcohol available everywhere, and storewide sales attract shoppers all down Broadway. The name captures it all. Fashion lives within us, so when we all join together in that commonality, fashion is having a marvelous night out.