Today we walked almost 10 miles! This included eating lunch at Eataly La Pizza, which has EVERYTHING from Italy. I mean the pizza ovens, the pizza flour, etc. everything. I have to admit it was the BEST pizza I've had in a really long time.
After lunch we walked to the Chelsie Piers, then walked on and over the High Line. From here we walked through SOHO. SOHO used to be the eclectic, artistic center with creative shops, etc. As with many locations it has now become gentrified, due to the rise in rents. SO you have chains now like Oliver Peoples glasses, etc.
From here we headed to Pete's Tavern as this was Artie's choice. It turns out Artie "called in sick" but we still met Andrew & Margie and their son for dinner, ti was nice to catch up on each of our families.
Well this is our last night on my last "free" Delta employee fights. We LOVE NEW YORK!
Monday, November 18, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Morgan Library - Leonardo De Vinci "Flight of Birds" & "The Face" PLUS "The Book of Mormon" - Sunday, November 17, 2013
We started off our Sunday afternoon visiting the Morgan Library. It was only a few blocks walk from our hotel. I had never visited this library. This is/was J.P. Morgan and this was his home. He seems to have been quite a fascinating man. One of the things I Loved about the Morgan Library is the Vault which was Mr. Morgan's original library. We saw the Leonardo De Vinci "Flight of Birds" exhibit. Also one of his drawings called "head of a young women" known as THE best painting ever. Plus we saw the De Vinci "Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale. Here is one more link for The Vault
Here's a video about the history of the museum:
I also enjoyed the Bookermania room, with all the books that won the Man Booker annual award!
We had a light lunch at The Morgan before we started walked NY again. I even had a Brooklyn Beer!
The rest of the afternoon we walked around and made plans for our evening Musical
"The Book of Mormon" it was SO funny. I give credit to the Mormon's as this spoof pokes a lot of fun at the Mormon's! The venue was the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, which was very nice. We had wanted to see this musical for some time and it was worth the wait.
Here's a video about the history of the museum:
I also enjoyed the Bookermania room, with all the books that won the Man Booker annual award!
We had a light lunch at The Morgan before we started walked NY again. I even had a Brooklyn Beer!
The rest of the afternoon we walked around and made plans for our evening Musical
"The Book of Mormon" it was SO funny. I give credit to the Mormon's as this spoof pokes a lot of fun at the Mormon's! The venue was the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, which was very nice. We had wanted to see this musical for some time and it was worth the wait.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
I love New York, Saturday, November 16, 2013
So far we have been very lucky as the weather has been fantastic. While it has been a bit cold, it has not rained nor snowed, so we feel fortunate.
Today we visited one of our favorite photo gallery, the International Center of Photography. We saw the Zoe Strauss exhibit and loved it. Below is a photo of one of her photo's!
We also saw an exhibit from Lewis Hine, it was also very special. The last exhibit was due to it being 50 years, almost to the date when JFK was killed. This exhibit was from a Bystanders View of History.
This afternoon (2:00pm) we saw THE BEST MUSICAL EVER called KINKY BOOTS! It won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Cyndi Lauper made history by being the first women to win a Tony Award for Best Score. We saw it at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
We LOVED it!
And yet the day was NOT over......we walked quite away and then took the Subway to 125th street - Harlem. Harlem has become a bit gentrified, which makes it so much more comfortable walking around, especially in the evening. We ate dinner at the Corner Social restaurant prior to the show.
We saw the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the World Famous Apollo Theater, this too was an amazing experience, both to be inside of the Apollo Theater AND be able to see the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Here is a You Tube video of one of the songs they played and are some of our photo's:
Today we visited one of our favorite photo gallery, the International Center of Photography. We saw the Zoe Strauss exhibit and loved it. Below is a photo of one of her photo's!
We also saw an exhibit from Lewis Hine, it was also very special. The last exhibit was due to it being 50 years, almost to the date when JFK was killed. This exhibit was from a Bystanders View of History.
This afternoon (2:00pm) we saw THE BEST MUSICAL EVER called KINKY BOOTS! It won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Cyndi Lauper made history by being the first women to win a Tony Award for Best Score. We saw it at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
We LOVED it!
And yet the day was NOT over......we walked quite away and then took the Subway to 125th street - Harlem. Harlem has become a bit gentrified, which makes it so much more comfortable walking around, especially in the evening. We ate dinner at the Corner Social restaurant prior to the show.
We saw the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the World Famous Apollo Theater, this too was an amazing experience, both to be inside of the Apollo Theater AND be able to see the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Here is a You Tube video of one of the songs they played and are some of our photo's:
Friday, November 15, 2013
Lunch with Cara & Michael Levy - plus my first visit to the 9/11 Memorial, the After Midnight musical- Friday, November 15, 2013
We arrived in NY late Thursday night. I knew that Michael Levy lived close to our hotel when I visited him on one of my previous NY trips. As an aside, it turns out that Michael moved but was still lived close to our hotel Hyatt Place. My 2nd cousin Cara happened to be coming into NY for business and meeting her son Michael for lunch, we just happened to join them! We ate at the Heartland Brewery in Midtown West.
It was great to get caught up on all of our families, and feel grateful for how fortunate we all are. Cara picked up lunch so I'll treat her and Larry the next time they are in San Francisco.
Since Beth and me have been unemployed we've been trying to walk together to get exercise, this is how we plan to enjoy NY, walk as much as we can.
After lunch and as the later afternoon sun was going down, we visited the new 9/11 Memorial. For me it was quite moving. We happened to talk with a docent on property who told us a lot about the Memorial. One more interesting fact is that the Architect (Michael Arad) design came from the thought of..........REFLECTING ABSENCE
After seeing this we ad some dinner and then went the see a show called "After Midnight". Here is one review "The lights dim... The music simmers...And the theater gets ready to blast into the stratosphere as a company of 42 top-fligth singers, dancers and musicians take the stage to create what New York Magazine calls "an apotheosis of pure joy". It all happens at AFTER MIDNIGHT, the new Broadway phenomenon that catapults the greatest of Duke Ellington and Harlem's Golden Age into the 21st century. The New York Times says " I't hot, sweet and altogether glorious. You'll be in seventh heaven! It was at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. It was fun and wonderful, Fantasia was even in it!
After we saw "After Midnight" we were a bit hungry so we went over to Bryant Park. During the winter they build a Ice Skating Rink and there are temporary restaurants and shops. We ate outside in the cold, albeit with a space heater at our table in the "Celsius Restaurant" in Bryant Park. While we ate we enjoyed watching people ice skate in Bryant Park.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
New York, New York - Thursday, November 14, 2013
So we booked a morning flight SFO-JFK and once we got on the plane we purchased the in-flight Internet GoGo and started to look for a hotel in New York. We found a inexpensive hotel - Hyatt Place at 52 West 36TH Street. We also booked a private car transfer and we were all set.
The night we arrived our room was on the front of the hotel, it was SO noisy (garbage trucks all night long) that the following morning we asked to move to the back of the hotel.
This is a photo from our room of the Empire State Building
On the night we arrived we wanted to get a bit to eat so we walked down to Eataly and had a excellent vegetarian dinner...check out these menu's.
The night we arrived our room was on the front of the hotel, it was SO noisy (garbage trucks all night long) that the following morning we asked to move to the back of the hotel.
This is a photo from our room of the Empire State Building
On the night we arrived we wanted to get a bit to eat so we walked down to Eataly and had a excellent vegetarian dinner...check out these menu's.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Thank you Richard Taylor & Tracy Grubbs Taylor! - Wednesday, November 13, 2013
We had Richard and Tracy over for dinner on Wednesday, November 13th. We were talking about me losing my job, yet still having travel privileges. We expressed that finding standby space to go to Paris, Rome, London. etc. was challenging. They said to us.....why don't you just go to New York. It was a brilliant idea. We we looked and found that Delta had about 4 or 5 flights a day from SFO to JFK so we could easily get on standby. Thus we booked a flight for the following day, Thursday, November 14th to JFK.
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