gnomi | New York Trip Day II: Friday

Or, subways, Subway, the president, and Shabbat

-- Slept a bit late, given how late we'd gotten in after the show. Eventually, got up, got dressed, ate breakfast, and headed out for the day.

-- Headed downtown to Wall St. for

mabfan's radio interview and for me to meet up with

running_girl4.

-- Discovered that Wall St. was swarming not only with news crews but also many, many cops and others in full riot gear (more on this below)

-- While

mabfan was at WBAI taping his upcoming Hour of the Wolf appearance,

running_girl4 and I wandered all over the South Street Seaport.

-- While we were up on the third-floor outlook, checking out the New York City Waterfalls, we noticed some activity over at the heliport nearby. Within a couple of minutes, a large, official-looking helicopter took off, followed by a couple of "friends." It turned out to be Marine One, followed by security, thus explaining the heavy police presence witnessed just a bit earlier.

Helicopters Taking Off
Copyright 2008 Nomi S. Burstein

-- Once

mabfan finished his interview, it was close to 2:30 and we hadn't yet had lunch. But we'd done a bit of research to find out where we could find kosher food in the Wall St. area, and we discovered that there was a Glatt kosher Subway just a couple of blocks away. So

running_girl4 walked us over there (her office is right around the corner from there) and left us to our lunch. Of course, since it was Friday afternoon and after 2:30 when we got there, we were concerned that they would close before we could get our lunch. Luck was with us, however -- they closed at 3 PM, so we could get our lunch and take it to a park down the block to eat.

-- After we ate, we ran a brief jewelry-related errand to replace the broken chain of a necklace that I've worn since

mabfan got it for me for my 21st birthday, and while we were there he got me a pair of matching earrings.

-- From there, we started our way back to Queens, arriving not long after our hosts got home from work. We helped out with the Shabbat preparations, and then we had a lovely Shabbat dinner with them and talked long into the night, until we all decided that if we kept talking we'd fall asleep where we were sitting, so we all retired for the night.

I'll try to post about Shabbat and Sunday before the holidays start Monday night, but no promises...