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Back from a successful business trip to NY City, had a great time! Times Square (briefly), WTC drive-by, walk through the Village, late dinner at Balthazar on Sunday. Meetings Monday (whaddya mean, 65 minute cab ride to go 2 miles!), Rockefeller Plaza, dinner at a local French Upper East side restaurant (something like Pascalous), drinks at a biker bar (American Trash) while arguing with 3 Harvard law school grads and a professional(?) women's advocate. It was quite a kick! The three NY moments which stood out most in my brief first-time trip:
- On the way to the Village Sunday night, looked down a side street blanketed with a soft day-old but clean dusting of snow on the street, sidewalk, and piled in a 3' high mound, the kind you'd see a kid playing on. On top of the mound, leashed owner patiently waiting on the sidewalk, was a dog, mid-poop, backlit by the streetlight. Poetic.
- Walking through the Village with lattes in hand, two tanned mid-40s businessmen conservatively attired (me and friend) pass an apartment building entryway. Two teenagers (not me and friend) heave snowballs from the doorway over our heads into the side of a passing cab. We chuckle as cabbie skids to a stop, then backs up. Except it backs up past the doorway (and hidden teens) to where we are, cursing at the two mid-40s businessmen (again, us) in native cabbie tongue (Farsi, I think). Concerned about being blackballed by all middle Eastern cabbies working Manhattan, we tried to argue our case, but eventually had to just walk away agreeing to disagree.
- Still in the Village, passed a young man with his car double parked next to a big pile of snow. He was shovelling the snow out onto the street. Told him he sure was working hard for the space. He pointed to the ground floor apartment window next to the future parking space, existing pile of snow, and proudly and loudly proclaimed "Damn right, I live right there! I'm not moving till Spring!"
I'll be back for more...
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