July 2010

Already went over Play Me I’m Yours, Peru and Boston — all of which happened in July 2010. Here’s the rest . . .

NYU Langone Medical Center — the less said about that the better except to note that I now believe there could be such a thing as “reverse altitude sickness” that happens when one’s body readjusts to sea level. This is an anecdotal, not a medical, opinion.

M. Wells Diner in Long Island City is a cool use of a cool old diner. Top image is from February 2005 and the one below it is what it looks like inside now:

I always wanted to go inside the diner and never did.

We had just read Bill Buford’s Among The Thugs, so I was psyched to see Manchester United supporters with what appears to be an 18-pack of Bud in tow in the Grand Central-42nd Street Subway Station on the day of Man U’s pre-season match against the MSL Philadelphia Union franchise:

Rockaway Taco is cool because of where it is, and makes you wonder whether the daily commute into Manhattan via the A train would be all that bad.