I had not been to Ray’s on the river in at least ten years until I went to Brunch with my family for my brothers 50th Birthday. There is a huge amount of housing that freplacess what used to be foliage on the shorline. There also are huge largeley unpopulated buildings on either side of the resturaunt now.
That is okay because Buffet was great and I enjoyed the couple hours with my family. I gave my brother a book called The Jazz Loft. The Jazz loft, which is a collection of photographs by a photographer named W. Eugene Smith who recorded and photographed Jazz Greats in New York from 1957 to 1965. Here is a link to the book http://www.jazzloftproject.org/?s=book ! There is also a radio series produced by MNYC and NPR. National Public Radio will broadcast four parts on Weekend Edition begining December 6, 2009. The series will air on consecutive Sundays through December 27.
Jason Staten 