Posted: December 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Feed, Manhattan, Out Of Town, Queens
A going-away dinner for a friend at Old Shanghai Deluxe in Manhattan’s Chinatown (by request — she was going to miss Chinese food like that).
New Long Island City items: Hook and Ladder 66, The Foundry, Metropolitan Building (funny story — I attended an art opening many years back and assumed for all this time that the people lived there and that this wasn’t actually an event space), Taxidepot (combines LIC’s two biggest industries — taxis and the film industry), Tom Cat Bakery (that’s where your bread comes from) and Z Hotel.
A page for the Queens-Midtown Tunnel compiles the ever-evolving billboards along Vernon Boulevard that are visible from the Manhattan-bound tunnel entrance (more to come as I get to them):
We already went over Washington, D.C.
Lucy the Elephant in Margate, New Jersey:
Laziza and Kabab Cafe in Astoria, Queens:
Tagging along with Jen on a work-related function at La Plaza Cultural in the East Village; never been inside there so I was excited about that:
Also, an aborted outing to the Prospect Park Bandshell.
Posted: December 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Feed, Manhattan, Queens
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.
Posted: November 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Feed, Manhattan, Out Of Town, Queens
Friday, May 28, 2010
There’s a story behind the weird stuffed animal menagerie on the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 1st Street in Williamsburg:
(See New York Shitty for more.)
We went to a keg party at the former Not For Tourists headquarters at 2 East Broadway. They had nice views of Chinatown and Lower Manhattan from the fourth floor there:
Paul Grieco of Terroir is a hoot. He’s right about street fairs, by the way, and feels strongly enough about it to include a page of his thoughts regarding the subject in the establishment’s book-length menu:
At Lupa, you can learn how to say “employees must wash hands before returning to work” in Italian:
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Mile End Deli in Boerum Hill has Montreal smoked meat almost as good as the stuff we tried in Canada back in February:
St. Agnes Church in Carroll Gardens. And the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Power House near the Gowanus Canal:
It’s weird how all power houses look similar. Here’s the IRT Power House on West 58th Street in Manhattan:
And here’s the former Pennsylvania Railroad Generating Plant in Long Island City:
The landmarked Coignet Stone Company Building at 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Brooklyn looks sad just sitting there all by itself:
Sunday, May 30, 2010
We took the train to the train station in Spring Lake, New Jersey, where we walked along the beach:
Then we walked along 3rd Avenue in town there:
Monday, May 31, 2010
Stinky beans at Sripraphai in Woodside:
An I kind of can’t believe that Yankees-Mets mural from the 2000 World Series is still there under the LIRR overpass at 39th Avenue and 58th Street in Woodside:
