Toni writes today: On St. Patrick’s Day, Sam and Kellie Dworkin arrived in NYC for five days. They stayed in the East Village with Sam’s cousin, Liz Dworkin, the real estate agent who was nice enough to give us our apartment hunting 101 crash course when we arrived here last April. We have known Sam since our school days in Overland Park, Kansas, and then we met Kellie when Sam started dating her back in 1980 when we used to frequent the Downliner and Parody Hall. Through the years our careers and families have not let us spend as much time as we have wanted to spend with them, so their New York vacation was the perfect time to catch up and recapture some of our fun glory days with them.
On St. Patty’s Sam and Kellie arrived at our apartment where we all enjoyed a take out lunch of corned beef sandwiches and matzo ball soup from Carnegie Deli. Then we walked down to the parade on 5th Avenue and viewed it for a few minutes. Next we walked down 5th Avenue into Central Park stopping at the Mall, Bethesda Fountain, the Boathouse, Strawberry Fields, and the Dakota. We took a snack break at a deli/diner as we walked south from 72nd Street down Columbus Avenue. Fortified once more we walked down to Times Square, Rockefeller Center, and back to our corner at 53rd and 7th Avenue. We met up with cousin Lizzy and her son (also named Sam) at our favorite neighborhood restaurant Maison for a wonderful 3 course dinner. It was a great day filled with food, drink, and many of the icons of the city.
The next day we met them at Washington Square Park for the requisite “Village Crawl”. First stop was Fat Cat for a game of Scrabble, then cheap drinks at the Cubby Hole, and round the corner to the back room lounge at Art Bar. Then a southern style BBQ dinner at Bone Lick. After our late dining I became the lightweight (so much for glory days), got in a cab, stumbled up to my bed, and slept for the next nine hours. The rest of the gang soldiered on to Marie’s Crisis Café to enjoy the piano bar. Unfortunately, we were only able to spend these two days of their vacation with them, as we had to finish our preparations for our two week stay in Toronto starting on Monday.
On Saturday the Dworkins went to the Tenement Museum and the Folk Art Museum, and then afterwards they stopped by our place for a view from our rooftop and good-byes. That night they were able to attend a Peter Case concert in the Lower East Side close to Liz’s apartment and we attended the Richard Thompson show at Carnegie Hall in our neighborhood.
We miss these great friends and hope they decide to be our house guests in Toronto in the next year or two. As evidenced by this writing, you can see they really know how to pack a lot of fun into life! For more photos go HERE.
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