the North of 14th Street tribute thread

gotham book mart....(maybe rip)

If anything ever threatens Academy Records I will stand vigil with a pitchfork trident and a torch.

Also I decided to have my birthday at Natural Tofu. Do the flood waters somehow bypass K-Town?

There's an academy below 14th too

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I prize the 18th st one for its ever-changing hoard of classical. Does the downtown one have same?

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I don't think so but that's not really what I look for

the 18th one is turdulent with some uniquely scented customers

but if classical's your bag, then i'm sure it's manna there

jon, make sure across the street to City Bakery on 18th. expensive as fuck, but the best chocolate chip cookie i've ever had in my life.

Yeah, I end up flipping through the bins next to old blind smelly contentious guys, it's fun. Esp. when there's two of them shopping together and commenting.

Yeah, I have this weird possibly-allergy thing with intense chocolate but I've had other stuff there and found it great.

the brooklyn academy store has a basement full of classical, but is irregular with getting dispensed to the bins. tons of shit for 25-50 cents.

dmr's post makes me think: jimmy's corner!

good call! the only acceptable times sq bar

I spend a lotta time there w/ NYT folks

i used to spend more. if i end up not working in midtown soon, i'll miss it.

Nice for a date = beach by stuytown

Jimmy's corner smells like a old bar. In a good way

stop spilling my North of 14th secretsssss

sharing is caring, pal

there is so much stuff i would get from wburg classical section if i had turntable. dunno how great of shape the records are in, but there's usually tons of stuff i would want to listen to.

I don't have a turntable these days either. Hence my classical has to come from 18th st. where they got the heaps of CDs.

Best source for free classical music in nyc has to be Lincoln Center public library's CD collection. I try to go up there once a month or so. If you're an opera person the selection is pretty deep. It's so frustrating though when I find something awesome there and it's too thrashed to play when I get it home. People treat library CDs like shit.

shake shack! (glad my friend waited in line for hours or whatever it was)

my girl works near there. the vps at the company send the interns to wait in line for them and bring it back to the office.

I'M SCARED!!!!!!

I'M GONNA DIE!!!!!

who will turn my face into a heart?

i heard there are old people up there

rich old people

i miss christ coffee

I MET GABBNEB

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lol

HARRY MET SALLY RIGHT HERE BELOW THIS SIGN BELOW 14TH ST OR WHATEVER IT SAYS

AND SHE HAD A MASSIVE BODY SHAKING ORGASM TOO FYI

ILL HAVE WHAT A SHES HAVING

(BECAUSE I CRAVE PLEASURE UNDERSTAND)

OMG RELATIONSHIPS WAHT ARE THEY

oh yeah, wasnt that at katz's? thats on houston
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fucking katz's is the falsest false grail in the falsest grail neighborhood ever

I EAT WAHT I LIEK

KATZ IS SO TENDER

IT IS SOOOOOO TENDER

We drank last night at the rooftop bar of La Quinta hotel on 32nd st in K-town. I kind of liked it. It was half deserted and I could watch clouds brushing past top of Empire St. Bldg.

xposts Yona Schimmel's is true grail

By which I mean the chalice which J3sus' blood flowed into oh wait a second...

I LIKED THAT FLIRTY LITTLE JACKET SALLY WAS WEARING. WHEN WE MET I WANTED TO JUST EAT IT RIGHT OFF HER WITH MY MOUTH. BUT INSTEAD I HAD THE PASTRAMI.

Is Jon Lewis Gabbneb's "partner" or something?

PARTNER IN MIDTOWN SEXYNEZZ

Natural Tofu is awesome. This is fact. La Quinta right across street.

I KEPT SAYING TO MYSELF JUST ACT LIKE YOURE A NICE GUY JUST ACT LIKE YOURE A NICE GUY. BUT THE WAY SHE WAS EATING THAT TOFU SALAD MADE IT HARD TO CONTROL MYSELF.

So embarrassed to be looking at YouTube.. .UHHH THIS IS FOR ROFLL... U SEE?

"downtown" is a state of mind

is there a naem for the upper w + e sides? is it ok to call them the upper sides or maybe just the sides? this has bothered me for a while now.

like theyre not midtown theyre not uptown wtf are they f them

parktown?

or in horrible real estate vernacular they could be upsy

my son, an UWS native, calls em The New York Suburbs! he means that as a compliment

starski, ever frequent the muddddddd clubbbbbbb?

when the nazi artfagz guarding the front door would let me in hahaha

hows abt: grandma couture

jhosh i never once in my life thought about moving away from nyc, i was forced out ;_;

thinking abt moving is part of the secret karma of staying except sometimes you end up in vermont that way

truthfully before I moved to the upper west side I rarely went above 23rd street except for work in midtown. now I rarely go downtown.

nostalgia for the mud (not the club)

y'alls is lazy

i am so laaaaazyh

nycers get all uppity about the cultural buffet that is the city but rarely is ever take advantage of any of it

i guess its just nice to know its there

its nice to feel the vibes from

All purpose excuse for not doing shit/going places: "I kind of get it all by osmosis"

i'm in new york for the people not the culture (being poor in nyc is like being an undergrad at a top uni; being rich in nyc is like being tenured faculty at a top uni)

is being sick of all yr neighborhood restaurants a legitimate reason for wanting to move?

do you live in new jersey?

uh

[16:14] WIZARDISHUNGRY: my new hobby = acquiring servers from companies in midtown

does anyone have any advice on how to get rid of a bed at my new place -- next trash day is wed?

Just put it put on the curb, no one will blink an eye around here.

nice

and I thought I was moving to a respectable neighborhood!!!!

hi u r a qt

i am staying at hotel qt

lol

nevermind, false alarm. north of 14th disaster averted.

whew?

Shasta in NY next week?

http://www.icantbelievetheydidthat.com/Miscellaneous/what-rich-people-eat-receipt.jpg

disgusting.

cristal rose 1.5L has a wholesale cost of ~$1,000... this place is bringin da lolz, bringin da wtfz

i mean, the food cost is crazy enough, but spending $35,000 on alcohol that could be purchased from a (first class) liquor store for 1/10 of the price is just fuckkkkkkkkk.

lolwtf @ truffle carpaccio

love that they complimented all that booze with 1 (one) bottle of water

Roman Abramovich managed to spend $47k at a New York restaurant called Nello’s while his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova drank only mineral water at $10 a bottle.

The waiters were reported to be high-fiving each other in the kitchen, and rightly so, over the $7,000 service charge.

Nello’s is one of the city’s premier Italian restaurants, owned by Nello Balan who recalls how Roman, girlfriend Dasha , his son Arkady and three business associates wined and dined through the best his restaurant could provide.

Nello Balan, the restauranter said: ‘When they started ordering, it was clear that excellence and perfection was on their agenda, rather than looking at the price.’

Some of the purchases included:

* Two bottles of Chateau Petrus wine, (One of the world’s most highly rated and expensive wines)

* Three bottles of La Tache Romanee Conti pinot noir

* Two magnums of Cristal rosé champagne

* Tawny port and Johnnie Walker Blue Label whisky

A waiter working the Abramovich table at Nello’s said: ‘Roman’s son had seafood pasta and the other friends were very relaxed and shared dishes of prosciutto, calamari and pasta. They ordered the most expensive wine and champagne on the menu.

‘Roman had a glass of champagne and a couple of glasses of red wine. The men ordered 40-year-old port to end their meal but they just had a sip and left the rest. What they didn’t drink, they gave away at the end of their meal to other diners. It was amazing.

‘There was a couple at the next table who ended up being given a half-finished bottle of Petrus. They must have thought they had won the lottery.

‘Mr Abramovich is a man of great wealth and very good taste. The final total was high but that was because he ordered some very fine wines which he generously shared with others in the restaurant.’

Mr Nello presented the Chelsea owner with a commemorative football at the end of his meal. He said: ‘I love soccer and I have lots of balls that I give away to special customers. Roman was happy.

‘I told him he should buy the New York Yankees [baseball team] but he said, “No thank you, I have enough trouble with Chelsea as it is. Let me finish off what I am doing with them first.”’

Reportedly Roman Abramovich politely enquired whether service was included, not even flinching at the bill.

visit us at nello summertimes

tiramisu only $15

$585 for 3 truffle tagliolinis is a pretty good deal

We drank last night at the rooftop bar of La Quinta hotel on 32nd st in K-town. I kind of liked it. It was half deserted and I could watch clouds brushing past top of Empire St. Bldg.

― Jon Lewis, Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:46 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

planned to go here as the final leg of a Belmont Stakes --> Korean BBq --> roof bar triple but we all flaked out after boozing all day at the races. I mean we had the BBQ but not the nightcap. would still like to go there although now it's probably been in too many "NYC's best undiscovered roof bar" articles

whatever you do, skip the empire rooftop bar if you are on a roof bar thing.

roof bar season is over I think. have to wait for roof bar initiative 2010

cristal rose 1.5L has a wholesale cost of ~$1,000

yeah that russian billionaire totally should have taken nets management to a byob place.

that was more of a wtf at Nello's for their 400% mark up than a dig at Abramovich.

BUT as someone who 20 years ago was a poor Soviet orphan peasant learning how to exploit black market, you better believe that he knows something about cost mgmt.

i like that he gave away the excess booze.

yeah, esp considering 97% of the tab was beverages.

while were talking about rich people how about this malaysian arms-dealing wharton grad

did you actually calcuate that 97% or is it an estimate.

i eyeballed it :P