I spent a three-day weekend in New York City last week, which was a nice chance to see friends, catch some theater, explore the new High Line, and see a couple of movies. I was there to introduce a screening of Upstream (which got a nice write-up on the New Yorker blog), and had some time to see the city as well.
Lego lions at the New York Public Library:
Lunch at the Shake Shack, a must:
I went for a walk on the High Line south to north one day, to see the new section up to 30th St. that had just opened a week or so earlier, and then ran the length of it north to south on a weekday morning, which was a good deal quieter.
The new Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, where I saw Page One, the new documentary about the New York Times.
The nearby Upper West Side Apple Store, which is one great big massive room (note the vendor selling “I•Touch” accessories on the sidewalk:
Frank Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street:
I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday morning to meet Paul for breakfast in Brooklyn. Seems the phenomenon of putting a lock with your name on it on a bridge has made its way over from Paris…
I’ve apparently taken this picture before.
I did some research at the Municipal Archives in Lower Manhattan, and went by the massive construction site for the World Trade Center Memorial and Freedom Tower.
I enjoyed seeing Bobby Cannavale and Chris Rock in The MF with the Hat, and Brian and I had a bizarre, memorable time wandering through the rooms, halls, and passageways of Sleep No More, a tough to describe but very enjoyable silent, interactive, film-noir-tinged re-telling of Macbeth, in which masked audience members choose their own path through a massive building filled with cast members acting out the story. It sounds silly when put that way, but was an amazing experience. Think Shakespeare + Hitchcock + Eyes Wide Shut + the Great American Songbook in a haunted version of The House on the Rock meets the original McSweeney’s Store. That’s about the size of it.
I hadn’t been to New York since 2009; I know it’s been longer for Aimee, and Grace has never been. I can’t wait until we have a chance to bring her to New York; from Central Park to the High Line, I know she’ll love it.
