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.
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