A day in the countryside or a day in a bustling city?
Miss day and weekend trips to New York. We try to see one or two Broadway shows a year, and we’ll drive up, see the show, and get dinner or lunch, depending on the time of day.
One time, in the winter, we did the winter shops at Bryant Park.
I’ve walked around Prospect Park. Been to the New York Public Library.
One time we walked all the way from the Second Avenue deli (which is like Jewish food heaven. For real. If you have the chance to go there - go.) to the Javitz where my bus was picking me up.
The dim sum place down the street from the Al Hirschfeld theater.
That bad-ass little Thai place on like...8th and 56th or some shit.
The crazy-as-fuck Disney store in Time’s Square.
The Museum of Moving Images in Queens.
The potato knish you can get from the street vendors.
The best. Pizza. Ever. I’ve had authentic deep dish. It has nothing on New York City pizza.
New York Comic Con - with all of its bad vibes and rude people, but getting to hang out with the comics crowd and discover weird new restaurants and go on walks. It used to be, that in-between the Double Tree hotel and the Javitz center was a little shop called Pieface, that sold miniature pies both sweet and savory, and for breakfast before the show, I would get a little breakfast pie that had egg and sausage and cheese in it, and it would be cold and rainy because - y’know. October in New York. But it was just the best way to start a convention day.
One time, I met Matt Fraction - whom I had tried to help with a shipping issue once through my job - and he was SO NICE!
I absolutely cannot live in New York City (lack of money + anxiety + away from all of my friends + where would I even work?), but I love - LOVE - to visit. My entire family came through Ellis Island. My mom grew up in a suburb just outside the city. My grandparents lived there for a long time before retiring the Florida. My grandfather grew up in the Bronx, and like. You could tell until the day he died.
