I visited New York City March 22 - 25th, 2006, and on Joan's birthday, the 23rd, travelled by train out to Hartsdale (@ 40 miles north of NYC), where Joan is interred at the Ferncliff Mausoleum along with her husband Al Steele.

Back in NYC later that evening, I attended a showing of "Berserk" at the Chelsea Clearview Cinema, along with other Joan fans. Here are 3 photo-pages of what I saw and did on Joan's birthday 2006.

A view of downtown Hartsdale, heading from the train station toward Ferncliff. (Cabbies hang around the train station, and I found a cab immediately after my arrival. My cabbie alarmed me, though, when he said re Ferncliff, "It's quite a drive out theah. It's in a really rural areah." Being from Texas, "rural" meant to me "20 or 30 miles out of town" and I kind of got nervous about what the impending fare might be. It turned out, though, that "rural" in this case meant... only about a mile!) While the weather in both the city and surrounding areas had been a cloudy, blustery, chilly 45-ish on the 22nd when I first arrived in town, by the 23rd the sky was a gorgeous crystalline blue and the temperature lounging moderately in the low 50s--perfect for enjoying my train trip and the picturesque Hartsdale environs.