14 April, 2009
ny muthaflippers!
chilling in L hostel, harlem. Third hostel me n seth have stayed in since i fllew in on sat evening, so nice to have a bit of a lie in today. Got up a few hours ago, maybe a mistake since late night will leave me flagging!
Went to a free comedy club last night, think it was on 26th street. Which avenue? Can't remember. One toward the left, on the blue line (have allowed seth to pretty much do all the leading, it's easier that way).
Ticked most of the boxes for places to visit here in on manhattan, went up top of the rock instead of the empire state though. Didn't fancy spending hours queueing for pretty much the same view. Weather's been pretty good so far, got a bit of rare colour in my cheeks now. Toward the end of the afternoon yesterday went to the batterires at the bottom of the island, got a nice view of the statue of lioberty from there. Lots n lots of orthodox jewish people out for a nice time in the sun, think a jewish museum's just around the corner from there. Have yet to find myself talkng to anyone who's orthodox jewish, an experience that's yet to present itself to me.
Noticed when getting the metro into town from jfk on sat just how segragated ny is. The L train through brooklyn was almost totally full of black people, then when i got off in manhattan at 1st ave, almost everyone was white. Also the difference between a few blocks down an the start of harlem from above central park. Just not the same in london, for the most part it's a complete mish mash. Be interesting to look at the history of the various peoples settling into their neighborhoods at some point. Spose the space is a big factor, in london things are tiny compared to here, groups of people not living in particular areas so much. Spose the likes of southall green street n brixton are examples of a particular type of people settling into the same general area.
pfft.
Time to give the phone a little juice upstairs, this's killing the battery a little.
Laters
doph
:o) ¶ 4:37 pm
Went to a free comedy club last night, think it was on 26th street. Which avenue? Can't remember. One toward the left, on the blue line (have allowed seth to pretty much do all the leading, it's easier that way).
Ticked most of the boxes for places to visit here in on manhattan, went up top of the rock instead of the empire state though. Didn't fancy spending hours queueing for pretty much the same view. Weather's been pretty good so far, got a bit of rare colour in my cheeks now. Toward the end of the afternoon yesterday went to the batterires at the bottom of the island, got a nice view of the statue of lioberty from there. Lots n lots of orthodox jewish people out for a nice time in the sun, think a jewish museum's just around the corner from there. Have yet to find myself talkng to anyone who's orthodox jewish, an experience that's yet to present itself to me.
Noticed when getting the metro into town from jfk on sat just how segragated ny is. The L train through brooklyn was almost totally full of black people, then when i got off in manhattan at 1st ave, almost everyone was white. Also the difference between a few blocks down an the start of harlem from above central park. Just not the same in london, for the most part it's a complete mish mash. Be interesting to look at the history of the various peoples settling into their neighborhoods at some point. Spose the space is a big factor, in london things are tiny compared to here, groups of people not living in particular areas so much. Spose the likes of southall green street n brixton are examples of a particular type of people settling into the same general area.
pfft.
Time to give the phone a little juice upstairs, this's killing the battery a little.
Laters
doph
:o) ¶ 4:37 pm
