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July 20, 2008
New York, New York
View, Empire State Building
Despite Shawn's promise to help out with entries about New York and Boston, I have yet to get anything from him.
In the interest of posting some of the stuff about some of the cool things we did in New York so I can get back to the daily grind in Guadalajara, I'm going to go ahead on my own. If he wants, he can do the Boston entry.
Molly and Shawn at the Campbell Apartment
One of the coolest things we did was to go to The Campbell Apartment. It isn't an apartment now, and in fact, it never really was an apartment. It used to be an office for John W. Campbell, the railroad magnate, tucked away in a corner of Grand Central Station. It has been revived as a very cool cocktail lounge, with a hand-painted wooden beam ceiling and stained glass windows.
My saying this may reveal me as an incorrigible lush - or maybe just a fan of the horribly plush - but I think that everyone that goes to New York needs to have a drink here. It is classic New York in so many ways: big money, big room, big drinks.
Crowd, Empire State Building
New York is huge and crowded. The view from the Empire State Building (above) shows how the buildings are crowded, and the view of the Empire State Building Observatory shows how crowded the people are. This is kind of cool in some ways, as there are spots with a lot of famous or cool places that are all in a tight radius. There is hardly a walk or a cab ride that you take without seeing a slew of landmarks that you have seen on screen or read about in books. "Oh! That was the Sherry Netherland! Wow! The funky Apple Store! Cool! The Plaza!"
New York is also home to a mind-boggling number of museums that have incredible collections. We went to The Brooklyn Museum of Art because they had an exhibition of work by Takashi Murakami.
Brett at The Brooklyn Museum
The guards were a little rude there though. They wouldn't let Shawn simply walk through a section of the museum to check it out because it was 8 minutes until their posted closing time. Then, upon trying to use the bathroom located in the lobby of the museum, they again gave him a hard time because it was closing time, even though it was five minutes before closing time. He blew the guard off and went in the bathroom anyway.
We did not have much luck trying to see The Guggenheim Museum, as 80% of it was closed for the installation of an upcoming exhibition. Their web site did not really make this clear, instead talking about the two small little exhibits that remained open. To their credit, they charged a reduced price, and the two exhibits they had available were quite good. But that, combined with the fact that the outside of the building, a classic Frank Lloyd Wright design, was completely obscured by scaffolding, kind of foiled our Guggenheim experience.
The Guggenheim, New York
The ramps inside were even closed, so all we could do was get this photo of them from the lobby.
The King Cole Lounge, The St. Regis Hotel
We stopped by the St. Regis for cocktails in the King Cole Lounge. It has a mural painted by Maxfield Parrish, the trippy American painter and illustrator.
Radio City Music Hall, New York
There were many other things we did not get to see or do in New York, but hopefully we will get to return in the future for another visit.
Posted by crispy at July 20, 2008 10:25 AM
Comments
I hear the Chilis in Times Square is awesome :)
Posted by: Akira at July 25, 2008 02:03 PM