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Jul 13th, 2012, 07:48 AM
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Another trip report about a weekend trip to NYC. What could possibly be of interest? I dunno. I just started it. I'm on the bus, winding out of dc. It's an interesting route out H street, along a trolley line to be, past a big cemetery. Bladensburg Road. The National Arboretum. Days Inn and muffler shops. I'm visiting my son. DW visiting friends in Ohio with friends. It's sorta frightening traveling by myself. So far it's been ok. We're passing the baltimore washington parkway sign, just like our last megabus trip. I'm in the front row, top of the bus. Very nice. DS#2 is an intern in the big city. I'm going to stay in a very small room at the Jane Hotel which is in the West Village. Adu has given me a list of restaurants and pastry shops. Tomorrow we'll look for 1/2 price tks at the seaport whatchamacallit. I might have to make stuff up so this trip report will be sufficiently interesting.
Jul 13th, 2012, 08:42 AM
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I'd in interested in exactly how small your room is at the Jane Hotel. Will you have to breathe in once inside the room?
I know they have single rooms with a twin bed. Do they have any bigger rooms?
More importantly did you get a great rate?
I just returned from a 'solo' trip. I only had to do the travel part of the trip solo as I met my DH in Sydney but it was a lot of travel. I quite enjoyed it.
I know they have single rooms with a twin bed. Do they have any bigger rooms?
More importantly did you get a great rate?
I just returned from a 'solo' trip. I only had to do the travel part of the trip solo as I met my DH in Sydney but it was a lot of travel. I quite enjoyed it.
Jul 13th, 2012, 02:20 PM
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I can face the window and touch the two opposing walls, wide enough for a twin bed and a little room to turn around. It's sorta fun. $99. But I'm worried DS#2 may think it's a flop house and his father is a failure. The Titanic survivors stayed here. Most have left. I took a cab here from the megabus stop. That felt very posh. Maybe I'll tip the doormen and they'll call me Mr. Santamonica. That would impress DS#2. The Santamonica part would confuse him. Is the tapas place Tulia? I gotta search. Tertulia's. I want to walk on the High Line. I gotta dig out Adu's recommendations and look for that fresh pasta place. DS#2 needs a pasta drainer. He doesn't know where to buy one. And a bedspread. Tomorrow we shop. Now I'll go down to the lobby. I haven't made anything up yet. I wonder if Katie ever stayed here?
Jul 13th, 2012, 03:40 PM
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Nah, The Jane is too hip to be considered a failure. Unless your son is in finance, maybe then it's seen as uncool?
Pasta drainers and bedspreads in one go at Bed Bath & Beyond. The TriBeCa one's just north of the WTC site and almost en route to/from South Street Seaport and your ticket-hunting... But if you want something more posh, the W Village is rife with impeccable boutiques!
I know Adu always has the best restaurant rec's, but I'll add a few to the mix. La Luncheonette is just a few blocks north of The Jane and super-close to the High Line (but not stiflingly so). For a quick bite, try a salad at 'Snice on the little triangle at 8th Ave and Jane Street. Oh, and Fatty Crab or Zampa each have very yummy small plates and stuff, tiny spaces though they are...
My softball team played the team from The Jane last night. Unfortunately I couldn't make it, or we could have compared notes! I wonder who plays - the doormen perhaps?
Pasta drainers and bedspreads in one go at Bed Bath & Beyond. The TriBeCa one's just north of the WTC site and almost en route to/from South Street Seaport and your ticket-hunting... But if you want something more posh, the W Village is rife with impeccable boutiques!
I know Adu always has the best restaurant rec's, but I'll add a few to the mix. La Luncheonette is just a few blocks north of The Jane and super-close to the High Line (but not stiflingly so). For a quick bite, try a salad at 'Snice on the little triangle at 8th Ave and Jane Street. Oh, and Fatty Crab or Zampa each have very yummy small plates and stuff, tiny spaces though they are...
My softball team played the team from The Jane last night. Unfortunately I couldn't make it, or we could have compared notes! I wonder who plays - the doormen perhaps?
Jul 13th, 2012, 06:31 PM
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we went to tertulia. Great tapas, creme catalana. DS#2 reassured me I wasn't a failure, despite staying in a very small room. Then we walked to the high line and sat on the wooden lounges built on the old rusty train tracks and watched people. Then we went our separate ways to rest up for tomorrow. I don't think there will be 1/2 tks for venus in fur. Oh, it closed. Maybe freud? I'll do some internet research tonight. Or maybe tomorrow. Now I gotta find a bathroom. Thanks for shopping and eating recommendations. Ggreen, they mentioned missing you at softball. (I made that up, but I bet they did)
Jul 14th, 2012, 07:03 AM
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I have a great rec for tapas, it's called La Boca on Greenwich Ave, between 6th and 7th, cheap and great food.
If you haven't done Eataly yet, you might find it interesting, and fun. Good shopping there.
For bedspreads, Macy's is having a bed in a bag sale for $25, I bought 2 yesterday.
For pasta drainers and anything else go to Jacks, on 32nd between 6th and 7th.
If you haven't done Eataly yet, you might find it interesting, and fun. Good shopping there.
For bedspreads, Macy's is having a bed in a bag sale for $25, I bought 2 yesterday.
For pasta drainers and anything else go to Jacks, on 32nd between 6th and 7th.
Jul 14th, 2012, 09:47 AM
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Hey, do you know how many losers we have eaten at!
I'm sure - that's why the ones that made your list are so good!
Tertulia is supposed to very good, if not a little pricey for tapas.
My fave tapas place closed, and now everything else seems too pricey - and fancy.
(Adu, I think we've been over this one before: Xunta and the tapas place that replaced it.) I'll have to see about this La Boca, travelbuff. 
// santamonica, if a story's gotta be made up about me, that sounds like a good one! (Oh, but only if they talked about the unassisted double play I made the previous week. Not about how I never seem to be able to get a run!)
I was quoted in a Fodor's NYC guide once (and only once). The quote was about the best "public" bathroom in SoHo. I think it was the only bathroom quote in the entire book. What a thing to be immortalized for!
I'm sure - that's why the ones that made your list are so good!
Tertulia is supposed to very good, if not a little pricey for tapas.
My fave tapas place closed, and now everything else seems too pricey - and fancy.
(Adu, I think we've been over this one before: Xunta and the tapas place that replaced it.) I'll have to see about this La Boca, travelbuff. // santamonica, if a story's gotta be made up about me, that sounds like a good one! (Oh, but only if they talked about the unassisted double play I made the previous week. Not about how I never seem to be able to get a run!)
I was quoted in a Fodor's NYC guide once (and only once). The quote was about the best "public" bathroom in SoHo. I think it was the only bathroom quote in the entire book. What a thing to be immortalized for!
Jul 14th, 2012, 11:57 AM
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My fave tapas place closed, and now everything else seems too pricey - and fancy. (Adu, I think we've been over this one before: Xunta and the tapas place that replaced it.)
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Yes the new one is called Nai which means mother in Gallego. The owner is American of Spanish descent.
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Yes the new one is called Nai which means mother in Gallego. The owner is American of Spanish descent.
Jul 14th, 2012, 08:04 PM
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Long day. Had coffee and croissant at the hotel cafe and then took free rental bike from hotel to bed bath and beyond for strainer and bedspread, and then to chelsea market for sticky bun from Amy's and brownies from Fat Witch, and then biked to DS#2 apt in Chinatown. Then we went to south street seaport for 1/2 price tickets, then DS#2 took the subway and I biked back to hotel where we had lunch at corner bistro, although s'nice looked more interesting but DS#2 didn't want veggies. Then we rested a bit, then subway back to his neighborhood where we had dinner at a french restaurant, then taxi to Freud's Last Session because we were a little late, then to look at times square, and then subways to hotel and apt. Haven't seen Katie Holmes yet. The Pasta Place is Rafettos I think. Adu's recommendation. We missed the $25 bed in a bag. DS#2 thinks the Jane is cool. And the location by the High Line is good. Free bikes are nice. But everywhere you go in nyc, all that people talk about is that unassisted double play. Must have been something to see.
