NYC

We spent Sunday night-Wednesday morning in New York, staying with one of my best friend's from high school, Meghann, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. We were greeted with a dinner party in honor of Meghann's roommate's birthday. We got to talk to a lot of different people that lived in different areas of Brooklyn and Queens. None were caught on camera, as it was a bit too loud in the apartment. 


Monday we strolled around SoHo and met our aunt Kathy for a tremendous lunch at Balthazar. When I go to NY I tend to stay around that area because the scale is much more human oriented and tends to not be as crowded as Midtown. That evening we met my friend Kelsey in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. I fell in love with this area. The architecture is great, endless amount of brownstones and tree-lined sidewalks. On Tuesday we walked a little through Central Park and tried to go to the MoMA, but as our luck would have it they are closed on Tuesdays. We even had a free pass! I was really eager to see Auburn's Rural Studio exhibit, but I guess I'll have to go back before it's gone. We got to meet up with another one of my friends from college, William, who lives in Hell's Kitchen. We interviewed him in his great back patio.


Anyway, we did walk through Williamsburg, the hipster's playground. It was intimidating, but I find it funny that all those people are dying to be different than mainstream America and they end up all looking the same. Artists and writers and the like all started to move to Williamsburg because the rent was cheaper and still convenient to get into Manhattan. Now it's probably not too much more expensive than parts of Manhattan. It's so much more busier than Greenpoint or Fort Greene and might be a little too much for me to handle. It is nice because there are so many restaurant and bar options, as well as shopping. 


I'm not feeling very inspired to write at this moment. I'll try to get back to this later and actually write about something interesting and/or witty.


bye.