Posted: December 14th, 2010 | Filed under: Out Of Town
A summer weekend in D.C. visiting a friend . . .
Dinner on Friday at Birch & Barley.
Saturday at the National Museum of American History. I remembered the anecdote about Horatio Greenough’s statue of George Washington from one of Daniel Boorstin’s books, so I was excited to see it in person again (a summation of the story can be found here in the section about The National Experience volume — it’s a great story if you’ve never heard it):
Michelle Obama’s inauguration gown is on display, too:
And of course Archie Bunker’s chair:
And Bill Clinton’s saxophone!
We ate at Spike Mendelsohn’s Good Stuff where the president has a burger named for him before heading down to Nationals Park to see the Diamondbacks beat up on the Nationals. Everyone was geeked about Stephen Strasburg, but that was before he tore his arm ligament:
I really love the president mascots:
On Sunday, we had the Nuevo Latino Dim Sum Brunch at Café Atlántico:
This was shortly after Spain won the World Cup, and I’m not sure if José Andrés is still on observing a self-imposed no-octopus rule:
We ate ice cream at The Dairy Godmother in Alexandria, where the president also visited:
We took the bus back to New York from the palatial Bolt-Mega terminal at the future CityCenter DC.
Posted: December 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Out Of Town
Tagging along on one of Jen’s work-related trips . . .
A Waterfront/Seaport District Bike Tour:
A RIB (rigid inflatable boat) Tour of Boston Harbor:
And a stop at Spectacle Island, which is a landfill turned public park (something they’re trying to do at Fresh Kills in Staten Island):
We walked over Moakley Bridge toward Downtown Boston and the North End, where we walked along Hanover Street where the St. Joseph Feast was happening:
Then through Paul Revere Mall over to Old North Church and Copp’s Hill Burying Ground.
I read that the so-called “Skinny House” at 44 Hull Street across from Copp’s Hill Burying Ground is an example of a “spite house” (here’s a Wikipedia about the concept):
We visited Haymarket. We later learned that the reason the prices are so cheap is wholesalers use the Friday-Saturday market to clear the decks in advance of getting new produce to sell:
We walked along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway toward the the temporary downtown location of James Hook & Company (it has since moved into its new permanent home across the Fort Point Channel along the waterfront in South Boston) where we ate Lobster Roll:
We stayed at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in a room that overlooked World Trade Center Avenue.
The next day we were taken to Congress Street and Charles Street before heading back to South Station for the train back to New York.
Posted: November 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Feed, Manhattan, Out Of Town, Queens
Friday, May 28, 2010
There’s a story behind the weird stuffed animal menagerie on the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 1st Street in Williamsburg:
(See New York Shitty for more.)
We went to a keg party at the former Not For Tourists headquarters at 2 East Broadway. They had nice views of Chinatown and Lower Manhattan from the fourth floor there:
Paul Grieco of Terroir is a hoot. He’s right about street fairs, by the way, and feels strongly enough about it to include a page of his thoughts regarding the subject in the establishment’s book-length menu:
At Lupa, you can learn how to say “employees must wash hands before returning to work” in Italian:
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Mile End Deli in Boerum Hill has Montreal smoked meat almost as good as the stuff we tried in Canada back in February:
St. Agnes Church in Carroll Gardens. And the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Power House near the Gowanus Canal:
It’s weird how all power houses look similar. Here’s the IRT Power House on West 58th Street in Manhattan:
And here’s the former Pennsylvania Railroad Generating Plant in Long Island City:
The landmarked Coignet Stone Company Building at 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Brooklyn looks sad just sitting there all by itself:
Sunday, May 30, 2010
We took the train to the train station in Spring Lake, New Jersey, where we walked along the beach:
Then we walked along 3rd Avenue in town there:
Monday, May 31, 2010
Stinky beans at Sripraphai in Woodside:
An I kind of can’t believe that Yankees-Mets mural from the 2000 World Series is still there under the LIRR overpass at 39th Avenue and 58th Street in Woodside:
