Headed to NYC Friday morning. Unfortunately an accident dealing with an oil spill on I-78 at Trexlertown backed up traffic for miles. I decided to hit the back roads. Went through Topton, Mertztown, Longswamp, Seisholtzville, Shimerville, Emmaus before getting back to I-78. Still took us a couple of extra hours.
Hannah wanted to see El Bulli, so we went to the Film Forum. Pretty interesting film but definitely along the lines of the food porn theme. We walked up 7th and stopped at an Italian Restaurant whose owner was chatting up people on the street to get business at Zucca. He did a pretty good job and we had the stuffed artichoke, beet salad, risotto, and ravioli. Pretty good actually.
Saturday we met Hannah at the Whitney. Spent a couple of hours there. Coolest was Cory Arcangel. I really liked his version of Paganini #5. Check out cats playing Schoenberg!!!
Then we hopped on the subway and went to the Eataly right across the street from Madison Square Park. It was still busy so we bought a goat cheese and pear sandwich, brocolli rabi pizza and ate it in the park with everyone else sunbathing around us. Cool sculpture also...
Then we went back to TKTS and bought tickets for Circque du Soleil Zarkana in Radio City Music Hall. Actually it was very good. The set was definitely the third ring with cool snakes, cool images, and too much stuff to watch while the performers were doing their thing.
Had a nice hike with a stop a cousin Stan's. Things I saw in between:
- The Museum of biblical Art. Free on Sunday's but I was there before it opened.
- Lincoln Center Atrium was open with 4 older ladies playing hearts/bridge and a few people using their PCs. Ticket office was closed so I couldn't get tickets.
- Riverside Park was fairly quiet with lots of dog walkers
- The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway from 72nd to 103rd was busy with joggers and bikers. I spent 45 minutes reading the NYTimes Sports and Auto sections.
- Lunch at Stan's and then across Central Park's north fields and then around the reservoir, then past the Met on 5th and then past the zoo.
- Back to the hotel via Dave Letterman's theater where they were giving out tickets for Monday's show. Too bad we are leaving.
Pretty good dinner at Havana Central complete with Mojito's and music
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