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NYC? Get a bus.
January 21, 2007 ( life )
So, I finally (with A's prodding) got to NYC. Some of her MIT friends were gathering for the weekend, and I have a brother and many Plan II folk there as well who I've been promising to meet for a while now. We took a bus up (http://www.washny.com/ - $35 r/t!) and dropped our bags off at a friend of A's office, and walked down to Battery Park from Times Square, stopping to admire the Empire State Building, a few street markets, parks, the Statue of Liberty (from afar) and "ground zero."
We met up with the rest of A's friends and hiked it out to Greenwich village to go to Lederhosen, a German beer garden with insanely excellent waitstaff. After tiring outselves out there, we retired to Brooklyn to pass out.
Saturday, we woke up to a light blanket of snow (the first for the season up in these parts!) and walked down to where A's mother and grandparents grew up in a more southerly part of Brooklyn, and then had dim sum for lunch, meeting up with one of my closest P2 buds, C., and wandered Chinatown a bit more, then headed to the Met and Café Sabarsky for coffee. We taxi'd across the park (it was COOOOLD by then!) to meet up with my brother Ev at Calle Ocho, a very hip Cuban place (yum!). We met back up with C. at a housewarming party thrown by yet another P2 friend in NYC, where a few other P2ers were in attendance. We eventually wandered back to Brooklyn and failed to go out with A's friends to Brooklyn bars as we had to get up early Sunday to make the best bus back.
NYC is... a bit weird. Too much city, but some interesting adaptations by its residents to living with so many people.
Posted by griffjon at January 21, 2007 04:25 PM
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