I really enjoyed living in Chelsea (23rd & 8th) and "Hells Kitchen" (52nd between 9th & 10th). Old haunts like Columbus Circle, Chelsea Pier & Meatpacking District, Gansevoort Hotel, etc etc and the Lower Eastside (Rivington, Ludlow, Delancy, etc). I miss the city more and more of late as the ravages of the pandemic (first surge of still ongoing first wave) become clearer even from down here in Atlanta. Some of my old lifelong New Yorker friends are moving out of Manhattan or out of NYC altogether.

Yeah, there are people moving out, but it still is the most exciting city in the world. My wife and I do the Chelsea Piers...and take lots of evening jazz cruises down to the Statue...and around up the East River under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Here's the sight we all look forward to:

:up:

One of my go-to NYC pastimes is slowly working my way through the classic pizza joints. A recent gem that's new school but near the top of the list is L'Industrie. A recent COVID casualty is Sal's, a neighborhood joint in Carroll Gardens that appears to be gone; opened in 1956. :sad:

A recent COVID casualty is Sal's, a neighborhood joint in Carroll Gardens that appears to be gone; opened in 1956. :sad: — Noble Dust

Damn.

Thankfully all of the more famous classic spots are still operational.

I've only passed by New York, viewing the gray gloomy cityscape on the horizon from the comfort of a passenger train, and even after reading the fourth Paul Auster book in a row have no real sense of it. Is every New Yorker a baseball fan?

Hopefully we can at least keep the closed streets and outdoor dining. The city is better without so many cars.

Do you not feel weird about dining out without a mask, while your server has one?

I mean after Covid is over, I haven't done outdoor dining myself