{"id":1944,"date":"2011-05-30T08:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2011-06-03T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:58:11","slug":"nyc-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"NYC day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To start our Sunday we followed M and J to one of J\u2019s favorite restaurants, Pastis<\/a>, in the meat packing district (which is now quite trendy).\u00a0 We were all surprised by the price of the food.\u00a0 J very generously picked up the tab for us.\u00a0 Everyone but me got to have the eggs benedict over waffles (or something \u2013 in Sam\u2019s case I think it was eggs over meat).\u00a0 They looked delicious (and the non-yolk portion that I tried of Sam’s dish certainly was), but I couldn\u2019t order it because the egg yolks were runny.\u00a0 I ordered pancakes instead, and it was abundantly clear that nobody ever orders pancakes at Pastis as they were very dry and plain.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea is quite a fashionable area, and M and Sam ducked into many clothing shops as we strolled toward our next destination: Highline Park.<\/p>\n

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Highline park is a decommissioned overhead train track that has been filled in with wood, grass and plants by the Hudson River.<\/p>\n

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J informed us that the Standard hotel over the park was “scandalous<\/a>” as the full floor to ceiling windows become quite a peeping tom’s delight after nightfall.<\/p>\n

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The park is adjacent to the famous Chelsea market.<\/p>\n

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At the market we all had snacks.\u00a0 Sam and I had frozen fruit popsicles from People’s Pops<\/a>.\u00a0 My popsicle was \u201cplum and sour cherry\u201d and it instantly brought back memories of my childhood as the taste was EXACTLY like the canned plum and fresh cherry (among many other things in their gardens, my parents have a cherry tree) mix I used to enjoy for dessert as a child (sometimes with ice cream and chocolate, but most times not).\u00a0 The popsicle didn’t appear to be artificially flavored, it was just literally made from the frozen slightly blended canned fruits, so I was eating an only slightly more cold version of the desert I hadn\u2019t eaten in nearly 15 years.<\/p>\n

After walking through Chelsea Market we split up with M and J and were on our way to washington square art park<\/a>.\u00a0 When we reached Washington Square Park we were confused as there were tons of people \u2013 but no art anywhere.\u00a0 The website for the show even said \u201ceast Washington Square Park,\u201d which confused us even more as the entire east section of the park was closed for renovations.\u00a0 We soon discovered that the art was actually on both sides of the street on the street adjacent to the park \u2013 running a few blocks in each direction.\u00a0 Most of the art was the mediocre type you\u2019d expect at an outdoor art fair.\u00a0 The only things interesting were a few talented nature painters and this cool stuff,<\/a> but they were way too expensive.<\/p>\n

Next we hopped another train to Greene Street to visit Arcadia gallery<\/a> for the Aron Wisenfeld show.\u00a0 Even though we arrived before 4pm and the gallery\u2019s web site says it is open until 6, we were informed that\u00a0 the gallery was closed.\u00a0 We pleaded that we had come all the way from LA \u2013 and the owner allowed us to run through.<\/p>\n

We headed back to M\u2019s place to join her and J for a late dinner at Shanghai Caf\u00e9 in Chinatown.<\/p>\n

I snapped the below shot at dusk just before ducking into the subway.<\/p>\n

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Below is one of NYC’s bad points, their\u00a0appalling (and stinky)\u00a0trash collection system. \u00a0These huge piles of trash were literally right in front of the restaurant door in Chinatown.<\/p>\n

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After we ate we walked down through the Little Italy street fair we\u2019d seed on our first day.<\/p>\n

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Sam and I tried one of the \u201cworld\u2019s best canollis\u201d \u00a0from Cafe Palermo<\/a> and .. having never eaten a canolli before I can say it probably is.<\/p>\n

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We walked past roasted corn, elephant ears, chocolate covered bananas, candy apples and fried oreos (yes, fried oreos).<\/p>\n

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In the middle of the street fair on a side street M and Sam were beckoned to one of their favorite dessert shops: Rice to Riches<\/a>.\u00a0 Sam raved about it after going there when she was in NYC last year and said it would be the true test of whether I liked rice pudding.\u00a0 Apparently I don\u2019t like rice pudding.<\/p>\n

We carried on to the lower east side, which we were told by J normally has a vibrant night life, but many bars were closed due to the holiday.\u00a0 Eventually we settled on\u00a0 10 bells wine bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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