I LOVE New York!

Hey kids,

Just got home a bit ago from a fantastic trip to NYC. Stayed at the Melrose at 63rd and Lex (Upper East Side ...... fa! fa! fa!)

Hung out in the Village on Thursday night and had wonderful Cuban food. Went downtown on Friday and cried my eyes out at Ground Zero and at Battery Park to see the globe from WTC.

Got tickets to see "Boy From Oz" for friday night. If any of you want to see a show, go to the 1/2 off ticket place downtown. Our seats weren't together, but when Hugh Jackson takes that stage ..... fugitabout! What a wonderful show.

Had dinner in the East Village last night and got back to hotel just in time to avoid a fantastic lightning storm.

AND saw Ed Kotch in SoHo.

To my fellow DU'ers in New York City ....... I love your city! :loveya:

PS. I'm loving these newest poll numbers for W!!!

I love NYC
The real US capital
The subway kicks ass

I love NY too...go there usually every year or so. The energy is incredible.

Glad you had a great time in the great city.

I'd love to see the "Boy From OZ" so I'm a tad jealous, I must say.

But you should have gone and stepped on Ed Koch's toes or something, jerk that he is.
Cannot stand that guy.

I'm spoiled now. This was my first Broadway show (in New York). Get the half price tickets, there is not a bad seat in the house. We paid $36 for seats. It's well worth it.

I've never stayed there overnight, I was jet-lagged on all my visits - but still: WOW. It is THE city, all others are upstarts.

Hugh Jackman was phenomenal! I've got tickets to see it again next week - I just had to see him one more time. He really is amazing!

I got to see Peter Allen perform at Radio City in the early 80s and Jackman does an awesome job of capturing his magic. Even if you're not familiar with Allen, it's worth the money to see Jackman - a performance like this doesn't happen very often. And if a great performance isn't enough ... you've got Jackman in tight pants, shaking his butt for 2 hours ... how can you go wrong? :loveya:

Ok ... I'm done gushing now. :)

There was this wonderful lady sitting behind me that had seen Peter Allen and she said that Hugh catupred his energy.

What a wonderful show.

I used to live in Queens and I'm hoping one day I can move back there. But Ronny, you realize you couldn't possibly go there without hitting one of the pizzerias. Broadway, at least when I was a kid, had some real captivating stuff there... I see it's still pretty good. How much were the tickets?

BTW, Ground Zero is cleaned up now, compared to when I saw it. I detoured there in December 2001 and it made me angry. I 10-story mound of rubble that covered I don't know how many acres.... but the thing that I found real disturbing was all the vendors near the observer's platform (which was just built the day I was there), hawking NYPD merch. Trying to profit off the 3000 corpses 5 blocks down the street. I even got into an argument with my father after he bought one of those caps....

One other thing: I'm hoping you didn't try driving :scared:

We got half price tix and they were $36 each.

Driving? Oh my god. LA is bad enought, I would never drive in the city. Gotta say that I LOVE me some NYC cab drivers. It's an E Ticket ride.

would have loved to meet you

All week, I was sick and didn't know if we were going. But trust me, next trip will be longer and I plan on seeing my DU'ers.

I'm a DC'er, but I LOVE New York. My ex-wife was from Brooklyn, and I've been to the city a bunch of times. Alway something new -- never gets old.

I get to go about once a year on business. I'd always wanted to go to NYC but never made it until about four years ago. It was love at first sight. I've explored almost every part of the city as this point, and I love it all.

I miss it - I saw that thread the other night that asked - who was at the corner of Pico and LaCienaga - and I was like, not me! But I wish I was!

How come you didn't tell any of us you was coming? Would have been fun to hang out a bit, share a meal, break some bread.

But I'm glad you had a great time!

But the trip was on again off again. This last week it almost didn't happen. I was sick and when we got to NY, Michael was sick. But we had fun.

Next time, I want more time to plan.

and yeah .... that storm was somthing!