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Top Of The Evening To You: A Quiet New Year’s Eve, A Merry Christmas

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December 31, 2007

Posted by neillevine

About This Editor: I am a writer. Have been writing for other sites, but expect to do most of my future work HERE! My expertise extends from the esoteric such as burning hydrogen to the unpredictability of the stock market and my writing makes me a jack of all trades and exasperated master of none. I have had some influence over national wildfire and water policy and there are hints of a change in energy policy, BUT as Samuel Goldwyn once said, "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it is written on."

         

I intend to have a quiet New Year’s Eve.  While I live in New York, I have never seen any need to stand out in the cold and wind and watch a lighted ball drop from the top of The Times Tower.  I do not even watch this on television.  I think it is boring to say the least.

I did have a nice Christmas Eve this year.

Karen Shwartz, my colleague here at ArsCompendium, contacted me by email.  She said she was coming to New York and asked if I was interested in a “Meet and Greet.”

I said, Fine.”

She first suggested we meet on Canal Street and go to a Chinese restaurant.  I was not particularly fond of this since Canal Street is not one of New York’s more inviting streets and I was not that interested in Chinese food.  I have a couple of Chinese restaurants in my neighborhood and while the food is good and Canal Street  is in New York’s big Chinese neighborhood, I have never been fond of China Town, even though when I worked near Wall Street I was able to enjoy a nice lunch there on occasion.

So Karen suggested Jekyll and Hyde, a restaurant on 58th Street and Sixth Avenue.

I replied, “Fine.”

We talked at around 5 pm Christmas evening and I said I thought it would take me around two hours to get to our rendezvous since it was a Holiday and I expected the subways to be slow.

I actually arrived early because I caught the train right away and it made good time to Manhattan.  I was so early I walked up from Rockefeller Center to Central Park and checked out the horse drawn carriages and pedicabs that tourists use to enhance their stay.

In front of the restaurant, I ended up talking to the friendly door man, who was dressed in a period costume and kept shouting “Boo” at passersby and his co-worker, a nice woman also wearing a period costume, who also acts in local theater.

Somehow, though I was in front of the restaurant for more than an hour, Karen and her lovely daughter managed to slip by without meeting me and had to come out and invite me in.

Jekyll and Hyde’s a very commercial establishment with an interesting combination of half live and half animatronic entertainment to catch you attention and distract you from the cold food and expensive drinks.

Afterwards, we walked to Rockefeller Center to see the ice skaters.  Even though I have lived in New York City all my life I managed to forget that the ice skating rink is behind Radio City Music Hall towards Fifth Avenue.  This, by the way, is where “The Today Show” is broadcast and the entire Center was, for some reason, packed.

I must say I had a nice time and if Karen ever wants to meet up again it would be hunky dory with me, despite her liberal tendencies on this site.

She certainly expresses herself well and you can check out her articles by clicking on any one that interests you.

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