why doesn't donald trump build a tower in newark?
it's not a good idea to drive a 32' RV through manhattan during the morning rush hour.
the transit authority doesn't like it if you try to drive through lincoln tunnel with a propane tank. they're very sensitive to things like that. something about terrorism....
when it starts snowing in the city and your mode of transportation is a 32' RV, you might want to think about going home.
ups people are incredibly friendly. brown kept going down the subway steps and dragging the luggage belonging to our women and children out of the belly of the beast. he must've made a half a dozen trips. i hope the bastard knows he blew all of my preconceived notions of how we would be treated in the big city.
while waiting in line for the ferry in battery park i commented to a park service guy about how nice the people of new york were. he offered two explanations. first he said that everyone got nicer after 9/11. then he added that native new yorkers were really nice people, but that a lot of people move to ny from the midwest and the south and they think they have to be rude to be "true" new yorkers.
the street performers are really cool. i remember turning the corner down from the amsterdam court on 50th street the first night i was in new york. there was a guy playing "summertime" on sax on a balmy august summer evening. how cool is this?, i thought. a street performer playing "summertime" on sax in new york city. how lucky could a guy from the sticks like me be? i wandered down the street and towards times square overwhelmed by the lights and the smells and the cabs and the people and the buildings. and then.... i heard a familiar tune. could it be? "summertime" on a cornet on a balmy night in new york city? how cool is this? what are the odds of two street performers playing one of my favorite tunes on the sidewalks of new york city on my first night in town? i think the thing that really stood out for me about ny was the smell. it wasn't bad like you might think. i guess it's all the food carts, but the smell is unique and good. warm. the lights are pretty impressive too. there's light everywhere. streetlights. storefronts. spotlights. bright lights. and then i happened upon a guy playing "summertime" on a flute. hmm. You can buy almost anything on the streets of new york. art. jewelry. handbags. watches. scarves. food. you can find any kind of food that you can possibly think of. chinese. italian. kosher. indian. argentinian. brazilian. and there are all kinds of street performers. mimes. dancers. singers. bands. a guy playing "summertime" on a zamfir.
a map is better than any investment you could possibly make on wall street.
the coolest place in ny is in corona, queens. the louis armstrong museum. queen's college has taken louis' house, restored it to almost original condition and turned it in to a museum. it is a good little trek out of the the heart of manhattan to get to it, but it is well worth the trip. maybe more on this later.
also in queens is shea stadium and the US tennis center. the queens museum of art has a scale model of all the boroughs of new york. the model covers the floor of a room about the size of a gymnasium. this is really cool also. ivan, a limo driver who became our unofficial tour-guide-by-cell-phone, told us we had to see this model. otherwise we never would have found it. he also turned us on to noodletown in manhattan and a good argentinian steak house in queens. thanks ivan!
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