Friday
- flight
- airtrain, q, g, lost a bit then found
- climb rail to get key from above door, dirty hands
- laser cut key?
- settled luggage
- walkabout, see charcuterie, Old Polish Bakery,The Brew Inn
- back to apt to meet Jon, more getting settled, roommate brother died suddenly and is out of town instead
- get burger & beer @ The Brew Inn
- piss @ Lake Street Bar
- beer @ Diamond Bar
- beer @ No Name Bar
- Torst super fancy beers who refused to bring our check
- last quarter of hockey semi-finals at oldster place called Pit Stop
- rooftop potting session with coolness and view (lamenting coming construction)
Saturday
- rise ~9:30
- empty cams + rsync
- walkabout Coney Island
- boardwalk
- White Castle
- wind + salt
- wind + grit
- walkabout Brighton Beach
- Avenue J & Di Fara Pizza
- walkabout Manhattan
- no food sorrow walk
- death of Nom Pang?
- sore and tired
- look The Strand!
- look Eatily!
- Nom Pang second location closed at 9:30
- Eatily is huge walkthrough
- ate mexifare (meh) but the ladies were flirting and that makes up for a lot
Sunday
- charge everything
- (Jon went to Yoga)
- shower
- find fishhook on carpet
- empty card + rsync
- call mom, dad, brother
- write notes
- (Jon returns)
- grocery shopping @ Associated
- get salads @ The Garden for ribs later
- eat at bodega in Brooklyn Heights (turkey & provolone on a roll, mexi-coke, ice cream sandwich for $8.50)
- walk entire Brooklyn Promenade(?)
- oops, it’s Smorgasburg
- a storm is brewing
- go to Williamsburg and play pinball @ Jack Bar (one beer for me, a white from Germany)
- got half soaked running to Buddhist mediation class
- got half soaked running to catch the b62 (one of three stacked up, probably not another for half an hour and we had to run behind it 2 blocks to catch it at the next stop since it didn’t stop as we were running to the corner)
- back to Jon’s place for ribs (mine) and potato salad and carrot salad (salads from The Garden)
- Jon roasts chicken breasts on bed of white onion and covered in parchment paper for his lunches
- walk down Manhattan for dessert
- peeked in @ Champs Jr (only one pie: apricot & chia)
- ice cream @ Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream
- empty cams & rsync
Monday
- MoMa PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave (Court Sq)
- arrived at 10:36 doesn’t open until noon
- eat eggs bennies at Court Square Diner
- MoMa PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave (Court Sq) $10
- Sculpture Center $5 donation
- Home of Soccer 1745 1st Avenue (near 1st Ave & E 90th St) oops $58
- Yankees Clubhouse Shop 110 E 59th St (near Park Ave & E 59th St) sorry pop, they are $250 but made with original wool
- Booker & Dax 207 2nd Ave (E Village near 2nd Ave & E 13th St) didn’t understand address and thought it had changed
- Pouring Ribbons 225 Avenue B (E Village near Ave B (W of 1st Ave) & E 14th St) best Ramos gin fizz ever with foam an inch over the glass rim (also very cool bubbly water dispenser with two pressures)
- so many wrong turns it’s painful, seriously (never forget your compass)
- Il Buco for dinner (house made salumi, bread, olive oil, gnocchi, pasta, and porchetta)
Tuesday
- Shake Shack (Smoke Shack, fries, and vanilla custard with chocolate toffee mix-in)
- Met
- Central Park to CP West then C to memorial
- burger bar for Bronx pale ale
- O’Hara’s to see patches and scrapbook
- 9/11 memorial (free Tuesday, get tix @ <16:00) Greenwich St & Liberty St
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- got 2 free tickets at 16:00 giveaway
- visited two bars waiting for Jon at leave work and arrive there
- discovered site was incorrect about 7 pm final entry (it’s 6:30 though sign said 6)
- tried to talk way in to little avail
- bahn mi Nom Pang 26th & Broadway
- Times Square
- W Village for comedy show
- G train down for maintenance so took shuttle bus instead
Wednesday
- Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave (NE of 36th Ave & 31st St)
- Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd (take Q/N toward Astoria; leave train @ Broadway; walk W to park near water)
- bbq joint beer and cornbread and Argentinian drummer
- High Line from W 30th St to W 16th St park from old elevated line W of 10th Ave
- wandering lower Manhattan
- Madison Square Park and meet Jon
- Eataly too busy, bought wild boar sopressata (~1/4 lb $11.02)
- noodle house for dinner
- Jon rode home and I took subway
- met Polish Pietro? (Peter) and talked on platform and G train (one stop) about his alcoholic brother and other things
Thursday
- Van Brunt Stillhouse
- 6 Bay St
- due W of N end of Prospect Park
- open 1-6 weekends
- Widow Jane Distillery
- 214 Conover St
- Open today 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
- simple flight 3 samples
- Cacao Prieto
- open Saturday 11-7
- tours noon, 2, & 4
- didn’t buy any chocolate; no samples
- Sixpoint Brewery
- 40 Van Dyke St
- Open today 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
- next to Van Brunt Stillhouse
- very friendly, talked for a while; closed for renovations
- told me about a cordial maker on the corner which was also closed (showed no signs of life anyway)
- Brooklyn Brewery
- 79 N 11th St (near Jon)
- closed today
- Gee’s pizza
- “anything else I can bring you?” “yes, we ordered two pies.”
- Champs Junior
- blueberry pie (vegan meh)
Friday
- leave about 9
- Prospect Park wandering
- find many water features
- then Historic House
- then head for toilet and then B Botanic Gardens
- then more toilet and Grand Army Plaza
- then head for Stone House but closed
- Stone Park Cafe
- slider with spinach, quail’s egg, side of pickled carrot and celery (house made)
- pork & duck liver taurine with cherries at topping (baked)
- Short Rib Slider: quail egg, creamed spinach, house pickled vegetables $l3
- http://stoneparkcafe.com
- Blue Print for great Manhattan
- then back to Gpoint but oops let’s detour through Court Sq by wrong direction
- then meet Jon, so tired
- quick slice at Italy Pizza on Manhattan
- walk down Manhattan to get a Good humor bar
- home and sleep
Saturday
- Pack & organize
- brunch at Park Luncheonette
- Comics
- Smorgasburg
- Dirk the Norseman
- G to E to Sutfin Blvd to Airtrain
- flight 440 18:45 –> arrive by 17:00 –> leave Brooklyn by ~15:30