The sun's going down over Manhattan now, dropping a curtain of darkness on Memorial Day in my neighborhood on the upper west side. I snapped these pix over the past few hours — scenes of how my neighbors celebrated the holiday while enjoying glorious weather. Some families had picnics on the grass in the shadow of Riverside Church and Grant's Tomb. In the playground behind the tomb, kids played volleyball while their dads played a card game for money. The tomb is draped in patriotic bunting and some dogwood trees are still in bloom nearby.

The city is building a marina where 125th Street meets the Hudson River. The partially built pier juts out under the span of the George Washington Bridge in the distance, but construction continues. Meanwhile, some neighborhood gents still, unbelievably, fish the river! Do they eat what they catch? Dunno. I've never asked them.

South of the marina, there's a jogging and bicycle path that straddles the rivers, a fave spot of mine that I trot along nearly every day I'm back East.

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