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Wall Street and the World Cup

I was walking through Wall St. this morning and couldn’t help but notice that they had replaced some of the american flags with the flags of the FIFA World Cup finalist.

NY Stock Exchange

Good to know the NY Stock Exchange is not only about money and profits. The Dow Jones index has been going up for three straight days, let’s see how it opens up on Monday after a new World Cup champion.

May 30 2010 morning

I feel like posting a couple of pictures today. My first two pictures were taken at Chambers Street near the World Trade Center and the red line Subway Station.

Chambers Mural

It is quite clear that 9/11 is still present. Next picture is of Chambers Street with the Municipal Building at the bottom.

Municipal Building
This is early Sunday morning, that explains why there is no people on the streets. After going home I decided to go to Central Park.

I decided to go out for a ride after the marvelous day. There were no clouds in the sky and temperature was around 25C. One full tour around Central Park going down through West Drive and up through East Drive is around ten kilometers.

Central Park

Coffee

I have been living in NYC for some time now. I must admit it was hard for me to get used to coffee in the City. I have tried Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and some others which I don’t recall. I must admit I have found really good coffe at Pret. It’s all organic , tasteful coffee beans. Size of a cup of coffee is not expensive either, less than two dollars for a large. I am not able to understand how people is so obsessed with Starbucks, I really don’t think coffee quality is as good as Pret.

Pret Coffee cup