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The first morning, I happily joined the crowds on Broadway getting ready for the next day's big snowstorm, and for the upcoming holiday. At Zabar's gourmet store I enjoyed this announcement: "Attention shoppers. There's a special on foie gras: only $65 a pound. No waiting in line, no taking a number. Step right up." The snowstorm was wonderful and I have made a page for it. On New Year's Eve, I took Bec to see the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, but forgot to turn the camera on when she asked Bec to take a picture of her in front of it! So I offer this link to the Rockefeller Center web site instead, with a whole set of pages on the tree. The Zagat's guide to New York restaurants was a fun resource. |
Sam's partner Jimmy has a studio apartment downstairs, and generously allowed me to invite Bec and Charles to join me. They came for New Year's weekend.
Here they are getting ready to clean up with Jimmy's rhinestone dustbroom. We went to a number of museums. There's a whole page on all the museums I visited, and another on those I did not. On Sam's advice we went to Chelsea and, as he promised, had an "incredibly delicious" Chinese meal at Grand Sichuan. It was a quintessential Friday night out in New York and we agreed that Shirley would NOT be having fun yet. The evening the storm ended, we walked across enchanted Central Park to see The Syringa Tree, an excellent off-Broadway one-woman show by a South African woman. |
| Other activities with Bec and Charles included dinner out with Susan's sister Cynthia and her boyfriend Chris, followed by Susan's favorite game (dictionary) until it was time to go watch the fireworks in Central Park. New York is so big it has multiple locations for fireworks, even in one borough. Like everything else, the fireworks were perfect.
After they left I met Sam's friends writer Jill Ciment and artist Arnold Mesches. I bought a photo collage of old Coney Island from Arnold. Coney Island is an important childhood memory of mine, and after first posting this page, it occurred to me there are probably interesting sites on the history of Coney Island. I was right:
Arnold's latest project is a series of works based on his FBI files, which he got through the Freedom of Information Act. He has inspired me to apply for mine.
I saw lots more museums, visited with my Aunt Bea (picture of her with Poi on the animals page), had a good afternoon with my cousin Pat and lunch with Kathleen, did lots of walking and took enough photos to make a page of City Scenes, saw two movies (Chocolat and The House of Mirth) and bought the tickets on line! What is a week in New York without a night on Broadway? My brother Chip gave Cynthia and Chris and me tickets to our choice of show. We chose Kiss Me Kate. |
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| Of course I enjoyed reading The New York Times every day. The online version, and its email newsletters are decent substitutes, but there's nothing like settling back with a cup of tea and the real thing. | On my last evening, just as I was starting to feel the cumulative effects of trekking and toting, regretting not having worked in a massage, I wandered into the Brookstone store at Rockefeller Center -- and spent 40 minutes in a massage chair. That technology has gotten as good as some professional massages I have had! I floated back into the city. |
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Jill has published a 
With fabulous costumes, great singing and dancing, and clever Cole Porter tunes, it was wonderful fun. Favorite songs: Too Darn Hot, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare.