By Cari, on December 21st, 2007%
The list of participants for Restaurant Week: Winter 2008 is up. Other than this week where I had lunch on Monday at El Centro, yesterday at Carmine’s and dinner tonight at Monster Sushi, my NYC restaurant use is generally limited to such fine dining establishments as Bully’s Deli, Cafe Metro and Cosi. It’s not that I don’t like good food, I do! It’s more a case of running between work and school (worse so last year when I was doing: Nyack–>Suffern–>Manhattan) and not having time to breathe, let alone eat. And then of course there’s the $$…
I’m actualy thinking about . . . → Keep Going: NYC Restaurant Week: Winter 2008
By Cari, on September 19th, 2007%
For Safety, Lady Liberty’s Crown Will Stay Closed, Park Service Says
I’d like to say I get it, but I don’t.
“Our primary concerns about public access to the Statue of Liberty’s crown are safety and health concerns, not terrorism,” Daniel N. Wenk, the deputy director of the park service, said at a Congressional hearing on the subject, the first in the six years the crown has been closed.
Like others, I think that if that were really the case, it would have come up long before 9/11.
Mr. Wenk said the statue’s creator, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, “never intended or designed the Statue of . . . → Keep Going: Statue of Liberty Sadness
