NYC prospects

[jay]

Another week, another business trip... this time to a strange land where I haven't been in 14 years -- Manhattan. There's a robotics company in the SoHo/downtown area. For some reason, this seems weird... why more than if it were, say, in downtown Boston or LA? I'm staying in the southeastern tip of Manhattan, near Canal St. and Lafayette -- any friends (clairaide ?)have any suggestions for restaurants or things to do down there?

Wednesday night I will meet a friend (for the first time) that I've been communicating online with for months, in the alt.poly newsgroup and in chat. I've never tried the "meet online and then in person" approach to making friendships before, and I'm a bit nervous...

I also feel a bit strange because this meeting with Honeybee has been already postponed twice... originally it was set for 9/11, then bumped to 9/13 because Honeywell moved their RLV review to 9/10-11 in Phoenix. I was due then to stay in the WTC Marriott, across the street from one of the towers. I don't think the hotel exists anymore. Creepy. And the 9/13 meeting obviously got bumped again, ultimately to this week.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks. That's more than I can manage in one 36-hour business trip, but maybe I can hit a couple and wander. I admit that I'm slightly apprehensive about this trip because it is unfamiliar ground. Almost anywhere that I visit in the US will be smaller, less teeming and complex than the SF Bay area, generally, but this time the converse will apply. Overseas, I give myself time to acclimate and observe. (I won't debate whether there's a language barrier here :-) Thanks for the pointers and encouragement :-). And I noted that you didn't mention South St. Seaport...

Actually, I found myself sitting in the cab from Penn Station, watching the streets and visualizing you there in your jacket with buttons... in your native environment, so to speak.

Now, out of the hotel and off to dinner, somewhere.

[rosefox]

There is nothing to mention about the South Street Seaport. Don't bother. *) The best thing I can say for it is that a Discordian I know who worked in the Financial District used to get his Friday hotdogs there.

My native environment... yes, it is that. Maybe sometime I'll get to show you around in person and you'll see just how much I change--watch the set of my shoulders relax as I cross West 14th Street from Chelsea into the Village, and no matter where I am I'll be walking at roughly 1.5 times the speed I walk in SF and environs. I feel at home here, but when I'm in New York, the city welcomes me, wraps around me and hugs me and sets up a big neon sign over my head that says "I belong here". Ask wcg or kshandra what it's like to walk through the Village with me. *grin* I don't really know what it looks like, I just know how it feels.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Shown around in person? Now *that* would be fun sometime... not just because it is Your City, but to watch how it changes you. (Imagining Rose in Washington Square or walking up Greenwich Avenue... grin)

[rosefox]

Heh. Yeah. I look... different. Maybe sometime we can walk through the Haight on a Saturday night or something... that might approximate it. Sort of. *)