It’s no secret that I’m a bench sitter. I like to watch the passing parade. I like not having an agenda.

Our daughters were in the school production of Pajama Game together and we had half an hour to kill before heading to the school auditorium. So on Friday night, my friend Trisha and I sat and watched the people go by. We were positioned in front of the lamp post near the Museum of Natural History.

Trisha was knitting. She was my decoy.

We loved watching all the kids in strollers and the dogs on their leashes. I put the camera very nonchalantly between my knees. Here are a handful of  the photos that I took of the passing people (and dogs). walking by. This is the view from the NYC bench on a Friday Night on the Upper West Side.