Bagels, Pizza, Hot Dogs and Race Tracks - New York City?

Chirping Chicken - potato salad.

Noted.

I've gotta go back over this thread.
I'll be in NYC and I have to figure out where to eat.

I was just wondering that same thing today as I walked by the empty store that used to be Lola's place.

I assume they're fine and busy, but, but, but, wish we'd hear from them.



Gnashing my teeth they are now so close to where I used to live.

sooooo George, what general neighbourhoods will you be in ... what kinda foods d'ya like?

While there are a ton 'o good recommendations here, I think the most nicely organized reviews can be found at yelp.com - enter the 10003 zip code and your food preference and go from there.

The hotel is a klick south of Central Park.
We won't be doing anything lavish.
Chirping Chicken sounds like a good take.
Maybe Joe (that man about town) Nation will have some suggestions.

ossoB - this is for you

on the less-renovated side of Governor's Island

Coast Guard barracks

On the Sunday of our adventure, after breakfast at Cafe Mozart, we picked up some celebratory cupcakes and headed into Central Park.

Wandered hither and yon, listened to the noise from the Puerto Rico Day Parade, which was happening on a coupla edges of the park, with crowd bits falling in occasionally.

The Broadway Baseball League was having their first day out



(one of the those buildings is the Dakota, but can I remember which? nope)

Penny found the box of cupcakes

then someone helped her open the box



peanut butter ... ginger spice

red velvet ... vanilla

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while I was watching some Atookaians in the distance



I thought I heard a saxaphone.

Walter told me it was a clarinet. hmmmm, maybe. There was a clarinetist under the bridge ... sorta facing the Atookaians ... but then when the group split up, and I turned back into the park to walk some more ... I found my guy ... being slightly overwhelmed by parade throngs ...

then he disappeared ... well, he's in there, and I can see him, but I couldn't hear him anymore



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and then a little walk on, the mood changed completely

Figuring the short building in the middle is the Dakota, guessing. Tnx for Gov Island sojourn photo.

Thanks for the pics, ehBeth. (I really should go on uploading mine.)

Sorry, chums...been busy.

The cross-continent journey was delicious. I really enjoy long drives, particularly through places where I've never been before and on reaching Portland, could have happily turned north or south for more days of it. We hadn't needed a car in New York, so this trip was in a wonderfully nimble little bavarian number all awash with the smell of new leather. We passed through a lot of beautiful terrain but nowhere quite so beautiful as Pennsylvania. Just above Denver, we dodged a tornado and my knuckles were turning white as I envisioned the new car being pummelled to death by pumpkin sized hail. But we got lucky.

Portland is a very green and clean little Pacific Northwest city that geographically and culturally sits about midway between Vancouver and San Francisco. We are immediately adjacent to the university in a nice building that has a pool up top and a microbrew pub at ground level.

On my last morning in Manhattan, I was standing on a corner near home and it was hot and there were trucks roaring past and ambulances and a jackhammer and taxis honking and folks yakking loudly into their cel phones and I thought, "Damn, I am going to miss this!". And I do.

Well, you won't expect that, but I can now understand why you miss what :wink:



Weinhard and Bottler, famous germans in Portland ... re brewery :wink:


Oh, and glad to hear again from you ... and your travel experiences!

We all do. The Empress was ready to go back a week later. There's just something about New York.

Glad to hear you're settling into the mellow, Bernie.

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Yup - time for more photos, Walter. I uploaded more - got distracted with some of the memories.

They'll come ...

The editing and distilling process is interesting. Of the approximately 300 photos I took over 4 days, I've kept about 120, put about 80 onto webshots, will probably end up posting about 20 - 30 in total here.

My thinking about why I don't post some pix is as interesting to me as some of the photos I do post.

Blatham--

Glad you're settling in.

EhBeth--

Thanks. Your pictures evoke my memories.

Walter--

By all means post your pictures. I'm a glutton for nostalgia.

I do have some difficulties .... which are various: one is, that after working on one, two, I fall in hourlong passages of good memories :wink:

Besides that, I've noticed that you need indeed some staff and lot's of equipment to make really good pictures (E19th or E20th)