New York Trip Planning

[gnomi]

mabfan and I are coming down to New York City for a couple days (18-21 September). Our time is a combination of already booked and totally unstructured, and you (yes, you!) can help us figure out what to do. Here's what we know already:

-- Thursday: Arriving mid-morning, dropping luggage, lunch with a friend in midtown, show in the evening.

-- Friday: mabfan has a 12:00 PM appointment to tape "Hour of the Wolf" for WBAI; I will be footloose and fancy free for two hours.

-- Shabbat: With friends chaos_wrangler and G., with bonus visiting with sdelmonte and batyatoon

-- Sunday: 4:00 PM-ish train back to Boston

What we don't know:

-- What to do Thursday afternoon between lunch and dinner (though there might be a trip to the New-York Historical Society)

-- What I should do with myself from noon until 2 on Friday while mabfan is doing his interview

-- What we're doing after mabfan's interview (and before Shabbat), and whether anyone wants to join us for whatever that may be

-- Where we might meet folks for lunch on Sunday (only parameters are kosher, somewhere not horribly far from Penn Station)

-- Which of you lovely folks are joining us for lunch on Sunday

Comments

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

If I could waddle myself into the city that weekend, I would, but I'm a little close to my due date to be walking around NYC. ;-) Have fun!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I figured it might be too close to your due date for you to make it into the city.

::hugs::

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

I wish I was coming to NYC!!! :-(

I miss it so much!

There is a great kosher place I used to love when I was in NYC, and it's not too far from Penn Station:

http://www.veggarden.com/

Safe travels! :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the restaurant recommendation. It doesn't look like they're open on Sunday, alas, but they'll be good to remember for a future visit.

Pietre Dure

[(Anonymous)]

Something out of the ordinary ...

If you are within easy distance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you might want to slip in long enough to see one of the temporary exhibitions on view there. Your visit will coincide with the final days of "Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in *Pietre Dure* from the Palaces of Europe," a well-reviewed show devoted to a specialized form of art that is seldom the subject of so ambitious an exhibition. You'll find information about the show, including images of selected works from it, at the Met's web site: <http://www.metmuseum.org>.

The Met is vast, but by consciously limiting yourself to one exhibition there, you can fit in a visit between other events on your schedule. (And don't feel obliged to pay the larcenous "suggested" entry fee!)


STEVE O.

Re: Pietre Dure

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestion! I haven't been to the Met in years.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Figures, I'm going to be in DC that weekend. :P

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Alas. We will miss you!

[fauxklore]

Re: your free two hours on Friday, surely there are yarn shops in NYC?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, good point. I should, in fact, look into exploring the yarn options. :-)

[running-girl4.livejournal.com]

I am always in NYC. Friday is usually a good time to take off. Do you like The South Street Seaport? Let me know where....

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's a possibility! I'm not quite sure yet where mabfan's interview is, but it's somewhere downtown. I won't want to be too far away (because after the interview we're going to want to reunite and figure out the rest of the afternoon), but if he's in that area, going to the South Street Seaport just might be the ticket.

[running-girl4.livejournal.com]

email me at adriadc at aol dot com so we can make plans