Area code in Baton Rouge = 225
I've started following some Baton Rouge blogs/twitterers, and noticed @cheekycherry tweeting a list of 225 things to miss about the red stick. I'll be watching that closely and gleaning the goodness from her experience!
I'd like to do a similar list for NYC -- although is it possible to find two hundred and twelve things that I will miss about New York? Here it is:
- The cachet of living here
- FreshDirect grocery delivery
- Walkable, walkable, walkable
- Public transportation
- The New York Times, especially the New York section (and recognizing the 'hoods)
- Sunday Styles, including Modern Love
- The New York Times Magazine, especially Cooking with Dexter
- Convenient gyms -- Coles and Palladium
- Washington Square Park (after renovations!)
- The view up 5th Avenue through the WSP arch
- Duane Reade (love hate, but it's so New York)
- Staten Island Ferry (free transport/entertainment/views)
- 5th Avenue bus
- Macy's
- Rockaway Beach (in one hour I could be at the ocean!)
- Coney Island
- The Wonder Wheel
- Hot dogs
- Hawt cawfee
- Oren's Daily Roast latte
- Tim Horton's latte (technically Canadian chain BUT I will miss them)
- Mercado's Pizza
- Top of the Rock (where I received my rock)
- Central Park
- Specifically Bow Bridge
- The Ramble
- Sheep's Meadow
- Turtle Pond
- Broadway shows
- Off-Broadway shows
- NYU Tisch Theater
- St. Mark's Place
- Street Festivals!
- Street fair food -- corn dogs, $5 Thai and gyros
- Street fair purchases -- scarves, hats, jewelry, cheapie toys
- Brooklyn Bridge (free views!)
- People watching everywhere
- Union Square Farmer's Market
- Union Square Holiday Fair
- Bryant Park's Holiday Fair
- Grand Central Station's Holiday Fair
- Bagels
- PAUMC (my church)
- Forced to be efficient in space usage
- Purple flowers all around NYU campus
- NYU women's basketball team
- Empire State Building
- Flat Iron Building
- Chrysler Building
- Skyline in general -- especially from New Jersey or a bridge
- Pearl River Mart
- The Met
- Museum of Natural History (esp the whale room)
- Street performers (sometimes)
- Sidewalk art
- Street vendors -- purses, scarves, magnets, etc.
- Money saving (for us anyway)
- People want to come visit us here -- it's a destination
- The weather in the spring and fall
- The leaves changing -- esp. around the reservoir in CP
- Cheap, tasty sushi
- Our super-fast Chinese delivery joint
- Delivery Five Guys Burgers
- No need for a car (or its upkeep and expense)
- Feeling justified at buying plane tickets BECAUSE I don't have the expense of a car
- Free water taxi to Ikea!
- Bleecker Street -- history and good eats
- Fourth of July fireworks over the East River (last year the Hudson)
- The Highline
- Chelsea Market (TBD -- on my bucket list, but I imagine I'll enjoy!)
- The chance that at any moment you could see a celebrity (Vincent D'Onofrio, Minnie Driver, Chris Noth, Scott Speedman, Leonardo DiCaprio, etc.)
- Gawker Stalker (although I rarely check it, nice to know it's there so I can look up a celebrity I spot and see if anyone else noticed too!)
- Paper Source stationery store
- M&J Trimming
- Margaritas at Dallas BBQ
- Times Square, even at its most crowded -- it sparkles
- Toys R Us in Times Square (for my Owen Jay)
- FAO Schwarz
- Delivery.com and the choices in general
- Jefferson Market Library branch and its DVD collection
- The main NYC Library -- read between the lions
- Cozy Diner
- Silver Spurs Diner
- The Red Lion -- live music and pub food, a winning combination
- Views down canyoned streets
- Manhattan solstice when sunset/sunrise light and streets align
- The evening light on the buildings
- Water towers on tops of buildings
- Double decker tour bus trips!
- Statue of Liberty
- Ellis Island
- Random film sets -- on location
- My neighborhood on the big screen (not that I ever saw Remember Me, but I will!)
- Constant access -- 24 hour sections of town if needed
- The vintage stores, even though I'm too intimidated to enter
- Our Mexican place across 6th Ave
- Jane Street
- Free Bumble & Bumble haircuts
- Meatpacking District (just sounds cool ... and it is)
- Hudson River Park
- The N train to Astoria when it curves to the north -- the view
- Tompkins Square Park - so shady
- MoMA (specifically its stores/shopping!)
- Sartorial design blogs all based here -- recognizing places on those blogs
- The view from our window
- The view from our window on a rainy day -- of the students' open umbrellas - colorful!
- Law & Order courthouse steps
- Law & Order filming around town (cancellation sob)
- My chiropractor and her receptionist
- Easy access to Penn Station and Amtrak
- Madison Square Garden (even if the Knicks are terrible the games are fun)
- Discounted tickets from NYU
- Lincoln Center -- high culture is available and accessible to me!
- Window shopping on 5th Avenue -- Tiffany's, etc.
- Everything constantly changes
- The city itself is a constant
- "Empire State of Mind"
- "New York, New York"
- Snow falling on snow -- deep mounds of white beauty
- The city, silent after a heavy snowfall
- And yet never totally silent
- My ZIP code
- Our apartment's hardwood floors
- Our giant chalk board
- Walking distance to Shawn's office
- Magazines are MADE here!
- Strand Bookstore
- Giant Barnes & Noble at Union Square
- (Most of) Our Doormen
- Renegade Craft Fair
- Souvenir tents on Canal Street (and elsewhere)
- Governor's Island (another on the bucket list, but I suspect I'll enjoy!)
- The feeling downtown amid all the buildings
- Century 21
- The "abandoned" station -- Cortland Street
- PATH Train to Jersey City for suburban paradise excursion
- The I *Heart* NY logo
- Free transfer to the bus from the subway (or vice versa)
- Bronx Zoo
- Central Park Zoo (although a little pricey)
- Museum of NYC
- Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
- Smithsonian free museum day!
- Aspects of working from home
- Anonymity even among huge crowds
- Window displays at Christmas
- Saks Fifth Avenue snowflakes at Christmas
- Rockefeller Christmas Tree and lights
- Rockettes and Christmas Spectacular
- So many TV shows set in NYC (although most not filmed here!)
- No smoking in restaurants or bars
- Calorie counts everywhere (although that's a curse if you're looking to indulge!)
- Access to any movie that's out
- The Angelika movie theater
- City Cinemas Village East (main theater used to be a Yiddish live action theater and is LOVELY with an ornate ceiling and plush, wide seats)
- IFC Theater - independent and foreign!
- Broadway Panhandler
- Surprise! Surprise! (a cool some-of-everything store ~12th Street)
- Shake Shack burgers in Madison Square Park (nom, nom, nom)
- Fresh air after rising from the stank of the subway
- Feeling like I know this place
- I can navigate the subway to any spot and feel in control
- I can figure out where I am on the island relatively easily
- Little Italy -- yummy food
- Upper West Side -- just a fun vibe in the neighborhood, especially along Columbus
- Waldorf-Astoria (despite being part of a minor shoot out)
- United Nations (another bucket list item I expect to like)
- Plethora of taxis when needed
- Car services to the airport
- Book signings - if I got my act together to go
- Internet access in the parks -- and many coffee shops
- Chumley's - secret and 86 that!
- Yankees and Mets baseball games
- Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village
- Greenflea Market
- The crazy countdown clock in Union Square
- The smell of roasted nuts on the street -- OMG, heaven
- Grand Central Station
- South Street Seaport -- and the views of Brooklyn Bridge
- Washington Square Art Show
- Music in the Park (another bucket list ... want to do this KNOW I'll love it)
- The volume of food choices -- intimidating but nice to know it's there
- New York Aquarium
- B&H Photo
- Magnolia Bakery
- Pop Up Shops that come and go
- There's a restaurant for Peanut Butter Sandwiches!
- Wall Street -- the bull statue
- Photo ops around every turn
- Including interesting graffiti
- Our neighborhood and the local NYU cops that keep things safe
- It's an island!
- NYC tap water is pretty darn tasty
- All kinds of people -- and no one will care what you wear
- Fishs Eddy
- Shopping in general
- Top Shop and H&M dotted throughout the city
- Mud Truck coffee
- Museum Mile
- Anything you need -- it's right here (almost)
- Temporary clean smell after a rain
- Loads of cool people live here
- Shops at Time Warner Center
- Ironic T-shirts
- Overhearing hipster doofus conversations
- Being within reach of culture, feeling like it rubs off on me!
- Economy Candy store
- Bodegas -- the word itself
- Times Square musicians -- subway performers
- The beauty of the city in all its grotesqueness
- A million little things I've forgotten or never knew
- It's the place where I became a wife and started my life as MW
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