The selection of beverages at Noble Pie
The store is a beautiful bakery/cafe with a nice selection of pies
They give you a very generous slice of pie
Noble Pie 137 Main Street Beacon, NY 12508
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Harriet Tubman Museum of New Jersey 632 Lafayette Street Cape May, NJ 08204
The Harriet Tubman Museum at 632 Lafayette Street in Cape May, NJ
The Main Gallery
The main gallery at the museum
Uncle Bill’s Pancake House 261 Beach Avenue Cape May, NJ 08204
Uncle Bill’s Pancake House in Cape May, NJ
The restaurant at Christmas time is a lot of fun and always busy
It’s all about pancakes and sausage at Uncle Bill’s Pancake House
My Life as a Fireman: Bergen County Firemen’s Home Association: December Meeting and Christmas Party December 1st, 2024
The members of the Bergen County Firemen’s Home Association at our Annual Christmas Party at the NJ State Firemen’s Home in Boonton, NJ
The Naylis family singers
Video of the girls singing their Christmas songs:
The entertainment joining in singing Christmas carols
Me and Resident Dog , Wells, taking our annual picture together
The members just elected me as President of the Bergen County Firemen’s Home Association for 2025
Salem Fire Museum 166 East Broadway Salem, NJ 08079
The front of the museum at 166 East Broadway in Salem, NJ
The main floor of the museum
Second Floor gallery of the Salem Fire Museum
Alloway Township History Museum 49 Greenwich Street (Room 216) Alloway, NJ 08001
The historical building houses the museum at 49 Greenwich Street
The historical treasures at the museum
The historical Native American display
Day Three Hundred and Thirty- Three Hasbrouck Heights Men’s Association Christmas tree sale going, going, gone! Sold Out! Closed for Business & Cleaned Up! November 29th-December 15th, 2024/January 18th, 2025
The sun rose on the day after Thanksgiving to start the sale
The day after Thanksgiving only means one thing to me (and that wasn’t why I had Pesto Pasta on Thanksgiving), we are getting ready for the Christmas tree drop off and the start of the sale in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ.
The set up for the sale
The week before many of the guys cleaned the site on the corner of Terrace and Jefferson Avenues and set the stands and the new ‘shed’ up for the start of the sale the next week. It amazing how fast the holiday season creeps up with us and then we are cleaning the lot again.
The organizing of the Christmas tree drop off
The truck turned the corner and parked by the lot at 7:30am with manhood the guys already there waiting to empty the truck.
The truck arrived at 7:30am
The guys preparing the truck for emptying out
Member Vinnie Decicco unloading trees
Around 8:00am we were joined by a group of high school students who made unloading so much quicker. With most of our members there, we were done unloading and organizing in about forty-five minutes.
Starting the line of members unloading
Unloading and unloading
And unloading
Video on the Unloading:
And unloading
Finishing the unloading
The finished unloading of the trees
The site open for business
The site open for business
Open for business
The members of the Hasbrouck Heights Men’s Association
About ten of us stayed through the first two shifts from 10:00am-2:00pm and from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. I stayed through the drop off, the three shifts, the parade and came back to finish the shift and close for the evening. It ended up being a thirteen hour day but we sold fifty-one trees and four stands, a new record.
We also added a float that helped with publicity.
The Men’s Association Float in the 2024 Hasbrouck Heights Holiday Parade
Selling into the late night
Our float in the parade that evening
Characters marching in the parade behind us
The first day of the sale after the Drop Off, I worked a triple shift and marched in the parade handing out candy canes, knowing that I would not be around for the next two weekends and I would be presenting back to back projects at work. So I worked a thirteen hour day plus the Drop Off and the Parade that night and then coming back and closing shop at 9:00pm. It was a long day!
On the night of December 13th, we gathered for our Annual Christmas Tree lot Party for the Men’s Association. I arrived at 9:00pm because I had so many papers to grade. The guys had to force me from my warm home to attend the party and I had a good time as I normally do.
Late night on the first night of the sale
Twenty-Five trees left the night of our Annual Tree Stand Party on December 13th, 2024
Us socializing at the December 13th Christmas Tree Lot Party. Twenty five trees left at this point
By Sunday night, December 15th, we were down to our last two trees. With not much stock left to sell, we put everyone on the honor system that they would pay for their trees by dropping the money off with our members. We think this is a fair system. After all, the money is for our Scholarship program.
The last two trees on the lot at 5:00pm
Not much left after that busy drop off just three weeks earlier
We put people on the honor system
All 427 trees sold out! Another great Christmas tree sale for the Hasbrouck Heights Men’s Association
Another great year and more scholarship money to give out next year.
On January 18th, 2025, it was time to close the lot down again after another successful selling season. About twenty of us got up at 8:00am and worked until 10:00am to put everything away and clean up the lot. We have to leave it better than when we got it.
Getting everything racked up
Packing up all the stands and equipment
Keeping it all organized for next year
The lot left better than when we found it
See you all on November 28th, 2025. We will be back!
Thank you everyone for another great sale!
Dong Happy Gardens 440 South Riverside Avenue Croton on the Hudson, NY 10520
Dong Happy Garden is somewhat lost in the ShopRite strip mall in Croton on the Hudson but this little gem of a restaurant is excellent
The delicious Beef and Broccoli meal
The delicious Barbecue Spareribs and Pork Fried Rice
The Orange Chicken with Pork Fried Rice
The Fried Pork Dumplings
Silver Moon Bakery 2740 Broadway & 105th Street/2664 Broadway New York, NY 10025 (closed March 2025 and reopened in new location June 2026)
*Bloggers note: the old locations at 2740 Broadway closed in March 2025 and the new location under a different owner opened at 2664 Broadway in June 2026)
Silver Moon Bakery
2740 Broadway & 105th Street/2664 Broadway (new location-new owner)
New York, NY 10025
(212) 866-4717
https://www.silvermoonbakery.com/
https://www.silvermoonbakery.com/menus/
Twitter: @silverMoonBakes
Open: Monday-Friday-7:30am-8:00pm/Saturday & Sunday-8:00am-7:00pm
My review on TripAdvisor:
The front of the old bakery location at 2740 Broadway
I discovered Silver Moon Bakery when walking around the Manhattanville/Bloomingdale neighborhood for my walking project, “MywalkinManhattan.com” and the couple of times I have been here, the pastries have been excellent.
The selection is amazing
The first time I visited the store, I just happened upon it. I needed a snack and walked in to see what they had in the cases. This is not the ordinary bakery with the same old things that the other bakeries carry. They are a little more adventurous in their baking and create some rather unusual pastries.
They are by no means cheap. It is not as expensive as some of their counterparts south of 96th Street especially on the East Side of Manhattan but their quality speaks for itself and everything I have eaten here is excellent (See reviews on TripAdvisor).
On my first trip to the bakery, I had a Crumuffin, a combination of a Croissant and a muffin. What made it unusual was that it was filled with chocolate Nutella and baked. It then was topped with vanilla crème and dusted with powder sugar. It had a soft, chewy texture to it and you could taste the layers in the pastry. Each bite gave it it’s own complexity. You tasted multiple flavors in each bite depending on how you bite into it. It had a sweet buttery flavor to it and it was not overwhelming sugary.
The Crumuffin at Silver Moon Bakery is amazing!
The Crumuffin is filled with Cream and Nutella and is a delight to bite into
I also had their glazed Brioche, which again had a rich buttery taste to it. It was a large ball that was lightly covered with a powder sugar glaze and the combination of the sweetness of the glaze with the sweet butter made a sweet/savory flavor that bursts in your mouth. It is also quite large so it takes a few bites to get through this sweet fluffy ball.
The Brioche at Silver Moon Bakery frosted or unfrosted is wonderful.
On my second trip to the bakery, I made a special trip up Broadway to come here and I wanted to try something new and original but I decided on a Linzer tart and it was delicious. The cookie had a rich taste of sweet butter and sugar, the way a quality baked product should have and it was layered with a raspberry jelly that tasted like it was homemade.
On another trip, I tried their French Meringue, which was light, fluffy and sweet. It melted in my mouth with every bite like a piece of cotton candy. It broke apart with each bite but still the sweet crunchiness was amazing.
The cookies and bread at Silver Moon Bakery.
When I visited the neighborhood again (which I have to admit in just a year keeps changing), I tried the Blueberry Danish ($3.95). It was delicious. The pastry was perfectly cooked with a chewy caramelized outside and a soft buttery consistency in the middle. It was studded with fresh blueberries and vanilla cream in between the pastry dough. It was delicious.
I was in such a good mood that day, I even bought a homeless woman a cupcake, which I thought was odd of me but could tell the woman was not faking it. There was something about her that rung through me and I bought her one of the pink sugar cupcakes. I am not sure how she liked it but I saw her taking big bites out of it and had a smile on her face. Every once in a while it is good to do a good deed.
On another recent trip to the bakery, I tried the Apricot Danish ($3.95), that was a swirl of pastry dough with cinnamon sugar with a delicious center of apricot puree in the center and with each bite you could taste the sweet fruit. I also tried one of their California danishes ($3.95) which was brioche dough with cinnamon sugar rolled into the swirl of the dough and then topped with more cinnamon sugar. Each bite had a sweet caramelized flavor to it and there is a nice richness in the buttery brioche dough.
Cinnamon Pastries
The best part about Silver Moon Bakery is that the staff is really nice and helpful. A big change from some of the French bakeries on the Upper East Side of Manhattan who act like you are buying a diamond ring from them. They can get very snooty when you question why this tiny pastry is $10.00. Not here.
The staff is very friendly and engaging. They come up with good suggestions when you are not sure what to decide to buy. Most of the time, I just buy both if I am hungry. The best part is that their product always tastes fresh no matter what time of day you go in. Some bakeries in the city, the product has been sitting around all day and even though it looks nice, its hard or dry. Not here. Everything I have had tastes like it was just baked or baked in small batches.
The inside of Silver Moon bakery.
This little ‘gem’ should not be missed when visiting Manhattanville. If you are visiting your children at Columbia University, take the walk a few blocks down south and stop at Silver Moon Bakery and try their high quality pastries.
In March 2025, the bakery closed (but has since reopened in a new location):
The new location at 2664 Broadway under a new owner:
The bakery reopened in 2026 under the new owner who owned Buttercup Bakery and renamed it Silver Moon Buttercup Bakery at 2664 Broadway.
The front of the new silver Moon Buttercup Bakery at 2664 Broadway
The new bakery has the same feel and a lot of the same items as the old bakery. It opened under a new owner who had bought much of the equipment and fixturing and retained a lot of the staff including the former manager and baker. It seems to be a hit right now since the opening.
The breads and rolls section
The pastry and pie and tart section
It still has the neighborhood feel to it
Washington Irving’s Sunnyside 3 West Sunnyside Lane Irvington, NY 10533
Sunnyside in the Fall of 2024
The Sunnyside Dining Room
The Living Room at Sunnyside
