Eccentric Flower:199807/report from NYC
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twenty-eight july ninety eight one p m report from NYC It's been a while. I apologize for the delay - I was hoping to write a postcard on Sunday night - but after a five-day absence, the backlog of things I must do, things I should do, and things I really want to do had stacked up to an astonishing degree. I don't really carry any awareness of my ongoing commitments until I neglect them for a while - then I become aware how many of them there are. At any rate, the trip to NYC was lovely, although it underscored my impression that to really do Manhattan properly one must have a great deal more money than I possess. I wanted to buy several dresses that probably cost more than our entire budget for the trip, for example. And we never did go south of Houston Street, where the streets stop being numbered and rectangular, and the neighborhood gets funky. This means we didn't go into SoHo (SOuth of HOuston, get it?) or Greenwich Village or the Lower East Side or any of those places. Next time. I did manage to find some Japanese culture guides which I couldn't locate in Boston, and a children's book that I didn't think was in print, and we saw some museums we hadn't managed to see on previous trips, like the Guggenheim, but in general we spent the bulk of our disposable trip money finding good food. I could eat in a different restaurant every night in NYC and never run out; they'd open faster than I could eat. One important food side trip involved Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Krispy Kreme is a southern chain, which inexplicably opened two locations in NYC a year back. They make a heavily sugared glazed donut, very much like sweetened fried air. A Krispy Kreme doughnut is astonishinly sinful if hot, and not bad even when cold. We rode the subway all the way down to 23rd at nine o'clock in the morning to get Krispy Kreme. It was so much better than Dunkin' Donuts that words fail me. The NYC locations are big successes, I'm told. (They even have a listing in Zagat's.) One can always hope they'll come to Boston. Then again, it may be best for my dietary intake if they don't. © columbine |
