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nyc was fun. here’s the rundown.
saturday:
-got in on the overnight bus at around 7:30 am. walked to hostel and took lots of pictures. :)
-napped in central park, checked into hostel, went to lower east side walking tour with tenement museum. they had ugly dolls! :)
-went to chinatown, past city hall, wtc site, wall street, waterfront.
sunday:
-met littlbutfierce! :) walked around her neighbourhood, ate garlic knots and fries (grease attack!), and went to pride day in queen’s where it was all people of colour. :O
-on the subway ride over, this older dude from burma and i started talking. that was fun!
-met up with ap, a friend of friend outside the seinfeld diner. :D
-went to labyrinth bookstore which supplies to columbia, got a tariq ali book for $6!
-walked 125th street in harlem, reminds me of yonge street but 10x bigger. :D
-ate at an ethiopian place, dessert at a soul food place.
-i had a quiet rainy night of tea at a local diner. :)
monday:
-poured rain and my shoes were soaked the entire day!!!
-strolled through central park with rain coat and umbrella, taking pictures.
-went to city of new york museum. it was closed. grr.
-went to a capezio store, which was actually inside a ballet academy, not what i was looking for! but stayed and watched the ballet classes for 3-yr. olds. super cute. :)
-went to fao schwarz to find ugly dolls. didn’t have any. :( they had the big keyboard from the movie big for $250,000 though. wanted to play but there were kids jumping on it; decided not to wait.
-stopped raining.
-went to main library. it was closed. grr.
-went to the original soup man and got borscht. i enjoyed reading the articles about al yaganeh, the founder - "the customer is not always right. i’m always right." love it.
-checked out bloomingdales and wondered why i was there.
-bought swanky jeans on sale for $29 USD at levi’s across the street.
-went to another capezio and got a tank top with a hole in the back.
-went to the daily show taping with jon stewart and waited a long time in line. favourite part at the end was when he was talking to stephen colbert who was on a monitor. (sigh) stephen!
-saw a cool building so i walked towards it, the hearst building. near columbus circle, which needs to be smashed into little bits because it is a shrine to mr. colonization.
-went to strictly roots in harlem for jamaican vegan food. yummy and cheap. i had tofu tempura and some pasta dish on a plate you’d see from chinatown. :D
tuesday:
-went to the natural history museum. bah! it was SO not worth $30! $30 includes all the special exhibits (frogs, mystical creatures, space collisions movie, dinosaur evolution movie and gold) - i just wanted frogs and mystical creatures, but they weren't all that either!
-checked out the human origins and asian peoples exhibits. :D
-went by carnegie hall and the sheet music store, joseph patelson music house. they didn’t have what i wanted. :( (i.e the lord is my shepherd - psalm 23 by schubert. ok, dubious title but the piece is gorgeous!!!)
-met up with jr, another friend of friend. she showed me her library, went to angelica’s in the east village for vegan food. walked to tompkins square park, checked out some community gardens and she showed me abc no rio this (white) punk rock anarchist place that she volunteers at. it was nuts!!! the walls were just covered in art, it was run down and falling apart, but you could just walk in and walk through, and they had a darkroom!!! i decided i would go back the next day and develop film!
-went to bluestockings bookstore. bought a complete map of new yawk (not just manhattan :) and “how sassy changed my life.” i needed that.
-also saw littlebutfierce’s sisu #4! :) and a flyer for “wong flew over the cuckoo’s nest” - a play about asian americans and mental health by kristina wong. how cool is that?
wednesday: last day.
-wanted to put my bag in a locker at the bus station but there weren’t any. nor were there any at grand central station. bah!
-wrote a postcard to alphbeta, saw the chrysler building, went to the international centre of photography. very cool. also saw the photo exhibit at the main library.
-met up with lg at union square for lunch, whom i met in the hostel. she’s superfriendly, from austin, starting master’s in nyc. we checked out the farmer’s market, the flatiron building.
-chilled out in tompkins square park, ate at a chinese-spanish-american place on delancey street. she went back to the hostel (we exchanged contact info with invites to stay at each other’s places :) and i went to abc no rio to develop film. so exciting!
-rushed to the bus station and got on the overnight bus. back in toronto, i was like, toronto is such a sleepy little city! :D
things about new york (or just manhattan):
it is super dense. lots of people living within close quarters to each other makes for some really interesting interactions, which provides a lot of material for photo-taking, not just for me, but for lots of photographers throughout history. buildings are tall and close together. there are lots of bars on windows and fences around parks and community gardens. public space is very deliberate; it is a cornerstore of american values, where liberty can take place. there are fenced-off sections in parks - for basketball, playgrounds, dog runs, lolling on grass... the fences were a bit much. doesn’t it say something about a society that needs that much fencing in their parks?
i didn’t see a lot of bikers. i wondered what it’d be like to bike nyc streets - the handful of bikers i saw were on speedy road bikes. i don’t think clunky mountain bikes would work in nyc! the subway is just nuts because there is so much of it. i wonder what the mta budget is?! people were really nice. yes i did see some angry people (angrier than in t.o.? maybe) but i did see some really cool interactions happen too that i doubt you’d see in t.o. did you know that nyc is now one of the most safest cities in the usa? london, england is now the place where you have to watch your back!
there are hardly any malls. there are tons and tons of clothing shops that it’s a bit excessive. but i guess that’s what nyc is about - there is just a lot. buildings, people, density, subway, street food, money and capital.
the hostel was nice. i chose the 10-bed dorm cuz it was the cheapest. but there were some loud snorers, whom i could hear even with earplugs!
i’m glad that i went. :) i'm so going back to check out the things i didn't see: soho, greenwich village, brooklyn, rockaway park... and for critical mass! :)
nyc was fun. here’s the rundown.
saturday:
-got in on the overnight bus at around 7:30 am. walked to hostel and took lots of pictures. :)
-napped in central park, checked into hostel, went to lower east side walking tour with tenement museum. they had ugly dolls! :)
-went to chinatown, past city hall, wtc site, wall street, waterfront.
sunday:
-met littlbutfierce! :) walked around her neighbourhood, ate garlic knots and fries (grease attack!), and went to pride day in queen’s where it was all people of colour. :O
-on the subway ride over, this older dude from burma and i started talking. that was fun!
-met up with ap, a friend of friend outside the seinfeld diner. :D
-went to labyrinth bookstore which supplies to columbia, got a tariq ali book for $6!
-walked 125th street in harlem, reminds me of yonge street but 10x bigger. :D
-ate at an ethiopian place, dessert at a soul food place.
-i had a quiet rainy night of tea at a local diner. :)
monday:
-poured rain and my shoes were soaked the entire day!!!
-strolled through central park with rain coat and umbrella, taking pictures.
-went to city of new york museum. it was closed. grr.
-went to a capezio store, which was actually inside a ballet academy, not what i was looking for! but stayed and watched the ballet classes for 3-yr. olds. super cute. :)
-went to fao schwarz to find ugly dolls. didn’t have any. :( they had the big keyboard from the movie big for $250,000 though. wanted to play but there were kids jumping on it; decided not to wait.
-stopped raining.
-went to main library. it was closed. grr.
-went to the original soup man and got borscht. i enjoyed reading the articles about al yaganeh, the founder - "the customer is not always right. i’m always right." love it.
-checked out bloomingdales and wondered why i was there.
-bought swanky jeans on sale for $29 USD at levi’s across the street.
-went to another capezio and got a tank top with a hole in the back.
-went to the daily show taping with jon stewart and waited a long time in line. favourite part at the end was when he was talking to stephen colbert who was on a monitor. (sigh) stephen!
-saw a cool building so i walked towards it, the hearst building. near columbus circle, which needs to be smashed into little bits because it is a shrine to mr. colonization.
-went to strictly roots in harlem for jamaican vegan food. yummy and cheap. i had tofu tempura and some pasta dish on a plate you’d see from chinatown. :D
tuesday:
-went to the natural history museum. bah! it was SO not worth $30! $30 includes all the special exhibits (frogs, mystical creatures, space collisions movie, dinosaur evolution movie and gold) - i just wanted frogs and mystical creatures, but they weren't all that either!
-checked out the human origins and asian peoples exhibits. :D
-went by carnegie hall and the sheet music store, joseph patelson music house. they didn’t have what i wanted. :( (i.e the lord is my shepherd - psalm 23 by schubert. ok, dubious title but the piece is gorgeous!!!)
-met up with jr, another friend of friend. she showed me her library, went to angelica’s in the east village for vegan food. walked to tompkins square park, checked out some community gardens and she showed me abc no rio this (white) punk rock anarchist place that she volunteers at. it was nuts!!! the walls were just covered in art, it was run down and falling apart, but you could just walk in and walk through, and they had a darkroom!!! i decided i would go back the next day and develop film!
-went to bluestockings bookstore. bought a complete map of new yawk (not just manhattan :) and “how sassy changed my life.” i needed that.
-also saw littlebutfierce’s sisu #4! :) and a flyer for “wong flew over the cuckoo’s nest” - a play about asian americans and mental health by kristina wong. how cool is that?
wednesday: last day.
-wanted to put my bag in a locker at the bus station but there weren’t any. nor were there any at grand central station. bah!
-wrote a postcard to alphbeta, saw the chrysler building, went to the international centre of photography. very cool. also saw the photo exhibit at the main library.
-met up with lg at union square for lunch, whom i met in the hostel. she’s superfriendly, from austin, starting master’s in nyc. we checked out the farmer’s market, the flatiron building.
-chilled out in tompkins square park, ate at a chinese-spanish-american place on delancey street. she went back to the hostel (we exchanged contact info with invites to stay at each other’s places :) and i went to abc no rio to develop film. so exciting!
-rushed to the bus station and got on the overnight bus. back in toronto, i was like, toronto is such a sleepy little city! :D
things about new york (or just manhattan):
it is super dense. lots of people living within close quarters to each other makes for some really interesting interactions, which provides a lot of material for photo-taking, not just for me, but for lots of photographers throughout history. buildings are tall and close together. there are lots of bars on windows and fences around parks and community gardens. public space is very deliberate; it is a cornerstore of american values, where liberty can take place. there are fenced-off sections in parks - for basketball, playgrounds, dog runs, lolling on grass... the fences were a bit much. doesn’t it say something about a society that needs that much fencing in their parks?
i didn’t see a lot of bikers. i wondered what it’d be like to bike nyc streets - the handful of bikers i saw were on speedy road bikes. i don’t think clunky mountain bikes would work in nyc! the subway is just nuts because there is so much of it. i wonder what the mta budget is?! people were really nice. yes i did see some angry people (angrier than in t.o.? maybe) but i did see some really cool interactions happen too that i doubt you’d see in t.o. did you know that nyc is now one of the most safest cities in the usa? london, england is now the place where you have to watch your back!
there are hardly any malls. there are tons and tons of clothing shops that it’s a bit excessive. but i guess that’s what nyc is about - there is just a lot. buildings, people, density, subway, street food, money and capital.
the hostel was nice. i chose the 10-bed dorm cuz it was the cheapest. but there were some loud snorers, whom i could hear even with earplugs!
i’m glad that i went. :) i'm so going back to check out the things i didn't see: soho, greenwich village, brooklyn, rockaway park... and for critical mass! :)