Caught the 8pm US Airways shuttle, last flight to LGA from BOS. A mostly empty plane, fell asleep before we left the ground. Got into LGA around 9:20. I miss Delta.
Stayed in Times Square at the new Element on 39th street. Studio-style apartments, recently opened. $119 a night, no major complaints. Had late night tea with A, a high school buddy working in finance. As a result of working A LOT, A has taken a liking to celebrating shabbat. Potential topic for doctoral dissertation: relationship between career, aging, and religious observance.
Slept like a baby, had an early midtown breakfast with N, an old and dear friend. Decided that I like turkey bacon.
Midtown New York morning traffic/hustle is totally insane. I don't miss it at all.
Work Work Work. Only in new york does a meeting end two hours early.
Took a frozen walk from Union Square to Soho, where I had coffee/dinner at Aroma on Houston. New York has changed a great deal since 2009, for the better. More smaller stores, boutiques, and experimental chains/shops. Energy of recovery/renaissance.
Inadvertently split a taxi with a snowboarding economic consultant whose father grew up in Brooklyn.
Punjabi cab driver was very amused/confused by the split cab incident, prompting a long conversation that included Indian and German political history, airline industry gossip, and values: he loves Jet Blue/Air India/Lufthansa, was relieved at the assassination of Indira Gandhi, had only recently heard about Adolf Hitler (while on a layover in Frankfurt?) and told me that he's become more religious and less materialistic as he gets older. See above bolded comment.
Talked the US Airways gate agent into bumping me onto the early flight back to DC without the $50 fee, after an unsuccessful attempt at check-in. In the words of the TSA agent: nice comes a long way.
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