A shot of the kitchen from the backroom at DBGB, where a friend had
his birthday party.
Squeezed
Oddly, this slide show and the one below spontaneously righted themselves. Same thing -- a bus and car and taxi fender-bender on 7th Ave at 56th. First shot is from an apt on 31st floor a few blocks away.
Bus crush 7th Ave
Car gets squeezed between tour bus and taxi at 56th St and 7th ave this afternoon. Testing Posterous iPhone app again; not sure why the pix are sideways.
Murray's Bagels closed by NYC Health Dept
Popular Chelsea bagel place on 8th Avenue, south of 23rd St. Update: Has reopened.
New Stumptown Coffee at 29th and Broadway, Manhattan
It's a little off Broadway in the Ace Hotel. Delicious espresso, and I bought a pound of something from Costa Rica. Read more about this visit and my other coffee obsessions.
This used to be an overpriced deli at the corner of Broadway and 54th. Now it is a giant ad for the movie "2012." ....I think.
Taxi fire 53rd and 7th
For more details about this, see my blog. Here's a news report at NYT City Room.
This is my daughter's Webkinz turtle Greenie, at the Park Cafe on 7th Avenue.
RIP, Kindle 1. Bought in April 2008. What started as a smudge in upper left corner got worse after Amazon tech support had me push the reset button. Be warned!
Sent from my mobile, please excuse terseness, typos.
A plastic replica of the $55 six layer motherlode chocolate cake at the Claim Jumper.
For the record the floor was clean.
For some reason, this sign at Mary & Rob's Westwood Cafe cracked me up.
The worst part of our flight to LA was the line at Avis at LAX. Everyone in this line arrived on the same bus, and had reservations, so they shouldn't have been this surprised -- they only had a couple of desk clerks on duty (three more were added eventually).
The view of first class on Virgin America, from the medium-priced seats. Air travel is super-glamorous.
Virgin America Red touch screen and remote.