I won't elaborate because sometimes things are too amazing for words.
7 hour bus ride.
NYC skyline (ha ha I get excited!)
chinatown/soho dash
66th Lincoln Center for the first time
Ollie's incredible spicy black bean noodles (ate more than half of giant container... so amazing.)
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early morning bagel
Washington Square in the sun
NYU confusion/Coffee Catastrophe... but not.
Uptown Lincoln Center
The bookstore dash, Juilliard/Patelsohn's, yip yip!
MoMA where are you? hungry...
Carnegie Deli crazy huge massive pastrami in Central Park
MoMA afternoon/short rest
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Wagner's Lohengrin @ the MET.... all 4.5 hours of it!!!
(INCREDIBLE even up in family circle.... and that Robert Wilson production was amazing, even though it's the first time i've ever seen Lohengrin!)
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NYU call, and meeting
uptown to Columbia
lunch and desert picnic style from the Hungarian Pastry Shop (the best baklava EVER!)
Columbia meeting
down to midtown
NY Car Show.... (pretty darn cool!)
Downtown to Union Sq.
Sushi from the whole foods sitting in Union Sq.
Amazing Strand bookstore.... yip yip!
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down to Roulette for amazing show: Haeyoung Kim w/Kathleen Supové, visuals by Adam Kendall
(What a WONDERFUL show, I loved the work. The interaction with visuals and sound was just great)
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room check out, locked up luggage which causes shoe catastrophe...
Morning walk through Times Sq.
Pass by observance of Good Morning America and the Today show
Lincoln Center for morning pics (thinking this would be the last time I see it, but no...)
Down to CUNY meeting/Shoe catastrophe (well, yeah)/5th Ave begins later than the rest of the streets (walk for like 25 blocks... oops only time I misjudged the distances)
Meeting at CUNY
Macy's
Uptown to 66th and Ollie's again this time the duck, yum yum
Juilliard bookstore again.
sprint for the locked up luggage.
terrible marathon from Penn Station to Canal street with naughty terrible bad heavy luggage (damn books... why do I love books!)
Canal St. 80 million degrees 8-9-10 blocks heavy luggage so thirsty
bus, half a bottle of water and an 8 hour ride home to Maine.
I am so tired... but what an Splendorific time in the City... Seriously, in love with it all.
sleep.
