New York City- classic or dud?

y it nice just crisp. go to little piggy market n get their meatloaf sand mmmm

"meatloaf sand"

Last night was offering those gusts of wind that actually keep you from being able to breathe, for a second.

the skylight in our bathroom was rattling all night long. total dud!

i was gonna go running in teh park

sounds like weird nose weather. when you scrunch up your nose and it takes a second or two to fall back into place.

ooof now i'm scared to leave my bedroom. i know there's another thread for this, but someone is taking me out to dinner tonight and i can't come up with any place to go at the moment! what is your favorite eats right now?

zabb city or sripraphai

i went running - it was niiice

tza - what sort of price range are we talking

and what neighborhood?

anyone been to florent? menu looks good. friend had 3 ideas - highline, florent, and corner bistro.

i think meatpacking-ish area

i like florent a lot. haven't been in a few years, though. corner bistro gets very crowded, burgers good to great-ish, lots of fratsters at prime times.

i am not really feeling burgery today, so i think we are going to go with florent. i trust it if you like it a lot! (though hopefully it's still as good as a few years ago).

i need to start keeping a list of restaurants. there's always someplace i want to try but when someone asks me i blank.

corner bistro is a shitty place w/good burgers

http://nymag.com/listings/bar/maincornerbistro.jpg

that does look tasty, but not today.

I like Corner Bistro but maybe have been lucky/oblivious to frats there. :( The bugers are rad and charmingly reasonably sized, that is to say kind of small, for burgers, but they turn out to be JUST the right size to eat in one sitting.

i am having burgers tonight

the problem with Corner Bistro is that it's become a kind of shrine to itself in a way that Katz's has managed to avoid - Chumley's comes to mind as well

SPECIAL CHICKEN:

sauteed chicken breast with roasted pecans, fresh herbs & orange marmelade; served with mashed potatoes & string beans

maybe i order this!

actually i think today is more of a roast chicken day

i'm feeling fish... fish with a nice bitter green

imna order some mthfkin dumplings right now

My boss called from New York today and explained he was a couple of minutes late into work because he stopped to help a guy whose hand got stuck to a lamppost.

How's the weather there, i may be coming over this in the next couple of weeks?

ew

http://i28.tinypic.com/157d5ph.jpg

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/monthly/10021?from=tenDay_topnav_vacation
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/10021?from=month_bottomnav_vacation

spring and fall are the nice seasons around here - its just starting to get good now - still libel to rain and be poopy but that can happen anytime

Hm - in my experience spring and fall barely exist in NY - you usually just get slammed between cold and hot

This could admittedly have something to do with the horrible radiators in every building I've ever lived in

don't make the mistake of walking through Soho on a weekend afternoon. I wanted to kill everyone.

Hm - in my experience spring and fall barely exist in NY - you usually just get slammed between cold and hot

-- Tracer Hand, Monday, April 14, 2008 9:17 AM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

lol ok grandpa - while this may be occasionally true of spring - fall is absolutely glorious and lingering

and just take a look at that mid april screenshot i posted for lovely nyc spring action

Thanks everyone!
I've also just noticed why Ste said ew. Best/worst typo ever.

i could see how horrible winter/summer could wipe the subtle spring/fall weather out yr memory - cause winter and summer are so gross and intense

Yeah, this happens to me every year. Yesterday I was at the South end of Central Park and I was like "Whoa, Central Park is really nice!" Then I ducked into a phone-booth and changed out of my Captain Obvious unitard.

central park is one of the greatest places /captain obvious

When can I get a deal on an air conditioner (other than "the fall")

Central Park is kind of shitty but the location is what makes it interesting

WHA CENTRAL PARK IS NOT "KIND OF SHITTY" ITS A FUCKING MARVEL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN!!!

FORGET ABT GETTING AIR CONDITIONER ADVICE FROM ME JERK

jw probably has seen like 10-20% of the park

yeah, no fall is crazy. certainly the quality of spring and fall can vary by year, and there are years that feel like no spring, but it may be that we don't notice it as much if there's enough rain in between lingering april winter and extra warm june.

yah rainy spring is a downr

I really like the edges of the park - some of the nicer buildings in the city are there and I like seeing them framed by trees.

Northeast US Spring is one moody bitch though. My wife keeps asking me around what date she should put away her sweaters and I keep telling her that's not how it works here.

Cast ne'er a clout' till may is oot.

Yea, I haven't seen that much of central park, but its a fucking frisbee golf course compared to the places I went back home to ride my bike / take walks.

this weekend we had one day of summer followed by one day of winter

Spring in New York is awesome. It's like the only few weeks where you actually talk to your neighbors. Once summer comes around it's back to business as usual.

i've considered starting a thread called "You can take the kids out of the suburbs, but you can't take the suburbs out of the kids" with a jpg of the McCarren Pool slip 'n slide

I don't understand all this excitement about the outdoors and going to parks. Call me when it's beach weather.