Last week, as soon as classes were over and grading completed, I made one of my semi-annual New York visits. I rented an apartment on Airbnb for three nights, connected with a few good friends, explored for food and wine, and arranged to go to my favorite clothing store to replenish sport jackets which were wearing out.
I won’t drag you through the play-by-play description of each day, but I will show or tell you a few of the highlights:
- dinner with Dan at Blossom, a terrific vegan restaurant on Ninth Avenue
- walking along the High Line to Dan’s apartment in the evening
- a late lunch at Rainbow Falafel, where I had a delicious fried eggplant sandwich on pita
- my successful visit with Patrick, my haberdasher for at least 15 years
- a short visit with Jan, at his new, larger office space, catching up on our activities over the past six months
- dinner at AlMar in Jan’s building in DUMBO section of Brooklyn
- picking up Alice Feiring’s holiday six-pack of specially selected natural wines
- oodles of wonderful micro-greens at the Wednesday Union Square Greenmarket
- a productive hour browsing through BuonItalia for a variety of delicious foodstuffs
- lunch at Remi with Jeremy
- walking eight miles in those three days, as I pursued my passions
Some of the visuals are shown below: