ehbeth: get a MetroCard. Put on it enough to get you through your stay. ($20.00) then you won't be fumbling for change to get on a bus or when you need a quick train ride. Believe me, it will come in handy.
This is the kind of town where you don't want to spend any time getting to where you are going.
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Lola-- I was thinking Serafina on Lafayette, been there? The theatre is down in Soho so.....
This is my birthday weekend so there will be shots from the GW Bridge to share late tomorrow. (I always walk the bridge, this year I may ride my bike....) and the gardens near the Cloisters are bursting!!!!!
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News Flash: the Shake Shack is open in Madison Square Park, the absolute best cheeseburg in the city with incredible 'freezes' the size of Arizona. \\
Or are we going to the Frying Pan??? or are we going to Lola's or am I the odd man out.
Joe(how come the even man never gets bumped?)Nation
I don't think the Frying Pan is open yet...but I will take EhBeth there during our walk.
I am DEEELIGHTED to see that the Shake Shake is open. Not only great fast food...but very reasonable also. And the ambiance!!!!! Don't get no better than that.
mmmmmmmmmmmm
cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger
(is there a special New York root beer which MUST be tried?)
The Cloister gardens were in a drear state when we were there in 2003. Would love to see pics. Or other pics. The GWashington Bridge was my neighborhood bridge when I was eight.
Happy Birthday this weekend, JoeN!
<will I slip, and refer to JoeNation as Joan when we meet?>
Finally some tentative dates: Monday, 4/25 to Thursday, 4/28.
Now to do some fine-tuning on this end.
ehBeth wrote:kickycan wrote: I hope I get a chance to see you at some point.
So I shouldn't bring lollipops?
Well, actually, I'm trying to stop with the lollipops, but if you bring those flavored toothpicks, I'll be your best friend ever!
Will look for your toothpicks, kicks.
JoaN, Frankie, Bernie, Lola, Noddy, everybody ... any special treats you'd like me to bring along. SealPoet and Swimpy requested Macintosh's toffee when I was going to meet them. Smarties? How do you like your coffee - Crisp?
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So today I walked across the George Washington Bridge and back.
A walk across the bridge.
Then through my neighborhood, the Fort Tryon Park Gardens to the Cloisters Museum. Enjoy!
The Nabe, the Gardens, the people...
JOE(I think we should either nip this Joan thing in the bud or find some Joan and nip her in the bud....)Nation
Yo...Joe or Joan or whatever...
...I've been busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the crabs lately...but I probably will be into town next week.
I'll give ya a call....maybe we can have a cheeseburger and a drink. Gotta find out if the Frying Pan is back in operation.
I HOPE you mean the soft shell variety of crabs, yyyebbbbnnnnhhh, the number for the Pan is 212 989 6363.. I left a msg. no ans sir.
Joe(the next person who calls me Joan gets a tongue kiss in front of their most beloved .)Nation
On second thought...maybe I can't make it next week.
<mulling - how likely is it it that JoaN will travel to Mudsock?>
Ok, I thought it was to me, who is in real life, Jo.
Now I'll go back and read the last six or so posts. I'm going to enjoy your birthday weekend walk.
Jo an.
just bookmarked the birthday walk galleries
how divine
love the runners - they are runners, aren't they?
Joe, I looked at your links, and I could comment on each of the photos, you are really good at this business of both content and composition. Ah, the trees and the legs. Ah, the last bridge pic. Well, ahhhhhh! in general. Thank you.
And now I am suddenly thinking of asking you a favor.
Get ready.
If you one day venture over to 3240 Henry Hudson Parkway, which was in my time, 1949-50, when I was eight, called the Colony House, would you stare at it a bit? A friend from that time - whom I met again when her parents and she vacationed in LA when were both around sixteen - told me the neighborhood was now (then) dangerous. That would have been around '58. Last I heard of her she lived in a fine London neighborhood, and then in Darien, Conn.... and I have lived in dangerous neighborhoods, so I have some doubt re her take on 3240. And don't care so much re its spiffiness anyway, just if it is still standing. We lived on the sixth floor, and I think there was a seventh. Maybe I'll pull myself together and post some photos tomorrow from work.
There was a woodsy lot to the left rear of the buildin, left as you face the front of it; that is probably built on by now. St. Gabriel's school was behind it. 231st street was our subway station. And there was a local park, forget the name, maybe Riverdale Park (Fordham Road? old words to me).
If you are ever in that neighborhood, would you cast your eagle eye at the address and report back?
For this I would owe you big time. A meal in New York, at least.
Just realized quite how obnoxious my request is. No hurry, and not just a question to Joe. Ten years and I'll be asking if you've checked it out.
