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The New York Trip: Lollapuzzoola, Theatre-Going, Food, and Mysteries
Almost finishing the catch-up on what I’ve been busy with, I went up to New York last weekend. I had booked the trains early enough to get a good price on the Acela, which is helpful in that it got me in early enough to spend some time at Macy’s. I need lots of things, but they didn’t have exactly what I was searching for. (If anyone knows of a good brick and mortar source of skorts, let me know.) I did, however, succeed in restocking my supply of Jockey for Her (which was on sale). I also filled another New York need with a tongue sandwich at the 2nd Avenue Deli. (It’s really the pickles and the “health salad,” i.e. vinegary cole slaw, that are only in New York things.)
( Lollapuzzola 5 )
After the puzzles, there was pizza, fulfilling another New York need. Then I walked back downtown. Yes, there is the subway or the bus, but the weather was nice out and I like to walk. I also feel obliged to revisit certain buildings on every trip to New York, so I paid my respects to Patience and Fortitude (the library lions) and the Chrysler Building, a.k.a. the most beautiful skyscraper on the planet. I also got some ice cream from the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. (I got the Bea Arthur which has vanilla soft serve ice cream, dulce de leche, and nilla wafers.) And I solved a mystery.
See, a couple of years ago I went on the Brooklyn Reality Tour (a popular flyertalk event) and the pickup spot was on 43rd Street. Walking over to it, I noticed a building with interesting bas reliefs of the months of the years around its arched doorway. Google failed me and it turns out that I had missed a critical point about the building. Apparently I have to look at a building four or five times to notice that it goes through to the next block. Sure enough, the same bas reliefs are repeated on 42nd Street and using that address let me identify it as the Salmon Tower. It’s really quite a nice entryway and I highly recommend it to people wandering around midtown Manhattan. (You don’t even have to go out of the way as it is right across from Bryant Park. I will not tell you how many years it took me to make the connection to William Cullen Bryant. Who I still confuse with William Jennings Bryan.)
( Old Jews Telling Jokes )
( Sunday: Brunch and a Giant Invisible Rabbit )
( Lollapuzzola 5 )
After the puzzles, there was pizza, fulfilling another New York need. Then I walked back downtown. Yes, there is the subway or the bus, but the weather was nice out and I like to walk. I also feel obliged to revisit certain buildings on every trip to New York, so I paid my respects to Patience and Fortitude (the library lions) and the Chrysler Building, a.k.a. the most beautiful skyscraper on the planet. I also got some ice cream from the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. (I got the Bea Arthur which has vanilla soft serve ice cream, dulce de leche, and nilla wafers.) And I solved a mystery.
See, a couple of years ago I went on the Brooklyn Reality Tour (a popular flyertalk event) and the pickup spot was on 43rd Street. Walking over to it, I noticed a building with interesting bas reliefs of the months of the years around its arched doorway. Google failed me and it turns out that I had missed a critical point about the building. Apparently I have to look at a building four or five times to notice that it goes through to the next block. Sure enough, the same bas reliefs are repeated on 42nd Street and using that address let me identify it as the Salmon Tower. It’s really quite a nice entryway and I highly recommend it to people wandering around midtown Manhattan. (You don’t even have to go out of the way as it is right across from Bryant Park. I will not tell you how many years it took me to make the connection to William Cullen Bryant. Who I still confuse with William Jennings Bryan.)
( Old Jews Telling Jokes )
( Sunday: Brunch and a Giant Invisible Rabbit )