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New York City 2021 – Part 3

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Third day in New York! Started it off by grabbing lunch at the border of Midtown West for some bagels at Pick a Bagel:

http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2021/11/26/pick-a-bagel/

Then headed back to near our hotel, the Warwick, (just south below Central Park) where the Moma was at (note to future self, Moma does have ticket allotment sectioned by times. Fortunately it wasn’t busy so we were able to get tickets for an hour after we bought them). We basically got to the Moma by 1pm, dropped A, and then stayed there till 5pm. Lots of different impressionists. The Starry Night by Vincent van Goh was featured. You can also drink wine at a bar they have.

After Moma, we were going to meet up with a friend, Eric, so we checked out the Whisky Trader Bar and Lounge near the Moma. They do have a good selection of Whisky, and it is a fairly large bar. Would recommend going there.

After, we got dinner at East Village, at this Greek Place:

http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2021/11/26/taverna-kyclades/

We then walked to a bar called the Mona in the same area (and listened to some blue grass music). Gotta say, not sure if I would live in the East Village. Doesn’t really have a homey feeling, the streets are too big.

After, we chilled at Erik’s place in midtown East. It’s a pretty sizable place with a great backyard.

New York City 2019

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I landed in New York City on a Monday in JFK, and headed to Manhattan to meet Ben at his place that is right beside the Empire State Building first pic below is his view).

From his place we went a bit south to a restaurant called Society Cafe: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/the-social-cafe/

After, we walked back to his place, but passing Madison Square Park.

The next day I checked into my hotel, called The Avalon. Then I headed over to Hudson Yard, where I spent a lot of time at the Vessel (but before reaching the Vessel, I checked out the Old Penn station building, which is now a post office, and passed by Madison Square Gardens).

Then I grabbed lunch at Wild Ink over at the shops at Hudson Yard, and also did some shopping: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/wild-ink/

Plus had a snack at Shake Shack and a mocha at Blue Bottle: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/shake-shack-hudson-yard/

http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/blue-bottle-hudson-yard/

After Hudson yard, I grabbed dinner at Momofuku Noodle bar: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/momofuku-noodle-bar/

Next day, I started the day late (mainly since I was in the ga area the previous night, where it was surprisingly happening on a Tuesday), and did AYCE at a Japanese / Korean restaurant: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/ichi-umi/

From there, I checked out the MOMA for and hour (they give you a discounted ticket if you go at that time).

After the MOMA, I met up with some friends at the meat packing district area, where we grabbed dinner at a place called Hudson Clearwater: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/hudson-clearwater/

From there we barhopped. We started at a place called Employees only at the meat packing district, then went to an arcade bar called ____ at lower east village (we actually spent quite a bit of time at this bar because of the beer pong arcade game. The drinks there though were not good).

We ended off the night near my hotel in K town, where we found a korean club (one floor up from the karaoke bar), where they had too 40 edm music, with a lot of ppl (girl to guy ratio was 3:2, and it was mostly Koreans).