invinoveritas’s posterous

Going to be busy as usual in New York City. Have many people to meet and places to go...all over the place.  Luckily transport is a snap and characters on board make for great entertainment. 

Here's a few things of what's on my short agenda:

Sunday visiting my best friend and her three gorgeous children in Lido Beach on Long Island. Takes me about 1 hour from Manhattan to get there. I love chillin' out on board Long Island Railroad watching those who act wacky in Manhattan suddenly become well behaved exit Jamaica, Queens station ;-P

22nd High School Reunion. Going to be at my high school in Manhattan a block away from my Mom's apartment.  After will go out bar hopping with my childhood classmate friend.  Last time we did that I ended up walking home without shoes in sub zero weather. Hate when that happens!

Meeting for first time with his wife a "Web 2.0" long time contact. Giving them a native New Yorker tour of less known hot spots with fran-tastic views. They have been to NYC many times but I'm going to surprise them with a few spots.

I can do my Manhattan tours in a flash. I've also hit the five boroughs in one day. It's not for the faint at heart or slow paced. Where I walk no grass grows. I kind of walk and talk fast.  When taking family and friends around NYC I usually offer them a side trip walks around West Harlem, South Bronx and other assorted rough around the edges hide-a-ways of Brooklyn and Queens. Until this day the only people in past 39 years to take me up on the offer were my cousins from Palermo, Sicily. They did though not want me to walk them around. They said seeing from taste of subway rides and platforms was enough! :-P

I always get asked about Ground Zero.  I take people there even though it makes me sad and do so with a heavy heart. Since Wall Street is usually on my tour I give them option to visit Ground Zero.

Art & Culture highlights:

New York University - Grey Art Gallery
icons of the desert: http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Watteau, Music, and Theater
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={BCE73368-B734-45EC-8263-6BD867EB4D4F}

MoMA
Freedom of the Press: Artist Publish on the American Presidency

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1005

40th Birthday happens to be around this time. I never have too many set plans in NYC. It's not that kind of city ;-)

My hometown New York City, there is no other place like it. You must see and experience it, if only once in your lifetime.

I have another Posterous www.posterous.com/newyorkology  Will start posting all things New York when remember. Until then please feel free to enjoy In Vino Veritas...