spring blooms<\/a>, of course, and then there are spring veggies \u2014 like spinach and arugula. That\u2019s what Weissman said he\u2019s looking forward to.<\/p>\n\u201cThe farmer’s market has nothing good in the winter, so it’s getting better already, and we go every Saturday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fort Greene resident Walter Alarcone, 44, was finishing up a tennis session at the courts in the park on Thursday \u2014 something he wasn\u2019t able to do for weeks while they were covered in snow and ice this winter. He said it\u2019s been a relief to get to shed his layers and get back on the courts. And as a new dad, he\u2019s looking forward to leaving the traveling mountain of cold-weather gear at home.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aBeing able to walk with a baby without having to put her in like five layers is like really exciting and exciting for me and my wife and baby,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bushwick resident William Pino, 85, said spring and fall are his favorite seasons, because \u201csummer is too hot and winter is too cold.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tony James in Fort Greene Park<\/p>\n
Catalina Gonella \/ Gothamist<\/p>\n
He was enjoying a walk back home from the grocery store through Maria Hernandez Park and said he and his wife are looking forward to spring blooms and spending more time outside.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI love to walk, I want to walk around here in the spring,\u201d he said. \u201cMy wife likes flowers. She’s always planting things, you know. So she’s looking forward to spring.\u201d<\/p>\n
What we\u2019re going to enjoy this spring<\/p>\n
We asked our colleagues at New York Public Radio for the things they look forward to most about spring.<\/p>\n
“The brief period where apartment windows can be fully open,” said Zach Gottehrer-Cohen, producer on WNYC’s \u201cAll of It\u201d and \u201cThe Brian Lehrer Show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nina Haritos, her husband Abby Weissman and their dog Murphy in Fort Greene Park.<\/p>\n
Catalina Gonella \/ Gothamist<\/p>\n
Zora Kings, NYPR\u2019s marketing and audience development coordinator, said she’s most excited about outdoor dining: “Gotta love eating good food, drinking a Hugo spritz and soaking in the warm sun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baseball, biking and birding were among the most popular spring pursuits for our colleagues at our offices on Varick Street.<\/p>\n
Maggie Stapleton, WQXR’s music director, said she’s looking forward to “biking without gloves and a parka!” Luke Green, an associate producer for \u201cAll of It with Allison Stewart,\u201d said he\u2019s \u201cplanning to do a ride following the Rockaway Beach Branch abandoned tracks in Queens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others praised those magical days when the city\u2019s hockey, baseball and basketball teams are all playing simultaneously. Walking, picnicking, grilling in public, day-drinking, visiting Daffodil Hill at New York Botanical Garden, spring fashions, dogs basking, birds singing and myriad blooms and blossoms were among our favorites as well.<\/p>\n
Iice cream shop Island Pops owner Shelly Marshall.<\/p>\n
Catalina Gonella \/ Gothamist<\/p>\n
But few people are looking forward to warmer weather than ice cream shop Island Pops owner Shelly Marshall, who said business slows down around Labor Day and doesn\u2019t pick back up until April.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s really a struggle in the winter,\u201d she said. \u201cIn the summer, we save like 15 cents out of every dollar that helps us in the winter, but the winter still needs to be a good winter for that to work, and this winter really stretched us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marshall said on colder months, her sales can be a fifth of what they are on warmer months. As the weather warms up, she\u2019s expecting a rush of people ready to cool off with one of her seasonal items.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think because winter was not gentle on anyone, people are especially looking forward to this summer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After several spring fakeouts, New Yorkers are ready for the real thing. New York City has gotten several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-195517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}