Looking back over pictures that I’ve taken while in NYC has made me wish that I would have told a million more stories on here. Well, its too late for that, but here are some more notable happenings that you may have missed:
I learned that you can drop off laundry and pay someone else to do it for you. It costs only $5 more and saves at least 2 hours of your life. So much for mom making you learn how to do laundry at home “because you’ll need to know how to do it when you live on your own”. Apparently you don’t:
Often times I like to go to neighborhoods or parts of town that I haven’t seen and just wander around to see what I find. Not too long ago I was on just such a mission and decided to sit down to read for a bit. Remarkably, I made a new friend:
So, I do lots of reading. Central Park is another fave:
Something I certainly wish I have been doing more of is wandering around with my camera. I take my little one pretty much everywhere I go, but I am very rarely out with my nicer one. On my way to dinner one evening I decided to take it out. I managed to take some pretty interesting photos, but I’m clearly out of practice. Here is something new I tried:
Not long after that last shot was taken, I stumbled into a hotel which had the address of a reputably incredible burger restaurant, called Burger Joint. It took a good 10 minutes and bit of courage for me to pull aside long draping curtains behind a desk in this 5-star hotel lobby. What I saw behind the curtains was a long dark hallway with a small neon Burger sign at the end. I followed it down and discovered a true hidden gem. Within the walls of this nice modern hotel was a hidden hole-in-the wall burger joint that offered one of the best and cheapest burgers I’ve had in NYC:
Something you have to do once in your life: walk across the Brooklyn Bridge:
Fortunately, I’ve also been able to go to a lot of concerts. All of them have been free too – except one. The one lucky concert that earned my hard earned cash: Spoon in Prospect Park. I was amazed that I was able to get off of work in time to catch the show, but I’m very glad that I did. It was an amazing concert:
Oh and Brock and I managed to find a pretty cool bar called 1, 2, 3. $1 sliders, $2 shots, $3 beers. All varieties, all night, every night. A pretty cool and novel concept and the bar itself was very clean and new. Unfortunately, it seems to be very similar to Taylors and caters to the Guido clientele. The night we went there, Brock and I were enjoying our $3 beer when the table next to us ordered this huge 100 oz tube of beer. It made sense, it was a big group and it was really the type of novelty drink that you share.
However, jealousy soon set in and it wasn’t long before we decided that we needed one to ourselves. The waitress thought it was funny that we were ordering an entire tube for just two people. No one was laughing though when we quickly finished one and moved on to our second. Yikes.
I made it home alright, but Brock was lucky I was there…
And a video of the crowd…
Oh, and I went to Coney Island last weekend. Wow. Definitely more to come on that later.
