New York | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Bond Street | Hudson Street
It Takes A Village
by
Mark Seal
What's your favorite walk? There's a lot of stuff on Hudson
and 14th streets. Hudson Street is always a great street to walk
down. You could start at 14th Street and Ninth Avenue and follow it
all the way down through the Village, then loop around and come up.
Or you could zigzag your way through the West Village. We haven't
even talked about the East Village and Tompkins Square Park, which
is also a cool place, a great playground and very, very green.
There are a lot of vegetarian restaurants and places that are great
for college kids.
You would eventually wander into a museum, right? Well, you
have to go to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. I remember going to
the Met when I was a kid. It's just a magnificent museum. You can
always do a special show there, or you can just choose a classic
and go see the Egyptian stuff and the armor. The Museum of Modern
Art is spectacular, too, and they have just finished their
renovation. There's also a great restaurant in there, called the
Modern. But if you feel like going somewhere really casual, there
is a place called Burger Heaven in the East 50s. The Frick is kind
of fun. Way uptown is the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum,
which gives you a different way to look at things.
Okay, what about New York nightlife? I have no nightlife -
but I know Broadway! After the theater, Orso is great. The
food is
always delicious. The people are lovely. You know what? This is
actually funny: In my neighborhood, there is this place on Ninth
Avenue called Pop Burger. I've been there both at 12:30 in the
afternoon with my kids having a hot dog and french fries and at
12:30 in the morning when it is a complete club scene, when people
are coming in to get milk shakes and they're hot after having been
in a bar all night. It's just another example of how there can be
all these different lives in New York that don't intersect. They
have a whole daytime life and a nighttime life. For sushi, we like
Bond Street. We also go to Japonica, on University. The other
restaurant we love, love, love - and we go there probably at least
once a week - is Bar Pitti, which is on Sixth Avenue. Bar Pitti is
another great Italian place. It's just a wonderful restaurant with
great people in it. I think we are going there tonight, as a matter
of fact.
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