After enduring the trials and tribulations of a computer outage at O’Hare International Airport (ORD), I made it to New York three hours later than expected (thanks United Airlines — I’ll rant about you later). So I had to make a choice between shopping in SoHo or hoofing to Central Park to see the Christo Gates installation. SoHo…Central Park…SoHo…Central Park…What would Chris Noth do? He’d probably grab a fabulous drink at a fabulous bar and say, ‘Baby’ in a Dean Martinesque manner. That’s what he’d do. Since I wasn’t feeling very fabulous, I went with my first choice of the Gates. I’m glad I did. New York was covered in snow, making the Gates pop like ripe little kumquats against the stark winter background. I’ll post pictures when I get back to Chicago.<\/p>\n
I played there for about an hour, hoping that Chris would show up, but eventually made my way to Times Square for a cup of coffee and a different shot of culture. Ooooo, cuhl-tah! Times2<\/sup> is a gaudy affair, but I love it so. Hunger and sadness (I saw the notice about Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide on the ABC scroller) drove me into a little bar on 45th<\/sup> street, where the English barkeep proceeded to act as though he knew me. I didn’t mind. We had a nice little chat about the toy show that’s in town and how the weather in Chicago was a nice predictor for NYC. He didn’t catch on that I didn’t live across the street, and he was such a dear, I didn’t feel like correcting him. I drank a few beers, toasted the memory of the good doctor, and ate dinner. Chris Noth didn’t show.<\/p>\n I’m working tomorrow in the Financial District, but I don’t have high hopes of Chris making it to Wall Street. This will make strike 4 out of 4 trips where Chris has managed to evade me. My stalking skills obviously need work.<\/p>\n Come back for the pictures. I’ll get them posted later in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After enduring the trials and tribulations of a computer outage at O’Hare International Airport (ORD), I made it to New York three hours later than expected (thanks United Airlines — I’ll rant about you later). So I had to make a choice between shopping in SoHo or hoofing to Central Park to see the Christo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}