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Non-obvious awesome things to do on holiday in northeast USA
IronOxide:
--- Quote from: Ballard on 09 Dec 2008, 11:19 ---Dinosaur BBQ - totally fucking authentic barbecue, despite being quite a distance from the BBQ Belt (the American Southwest and parts of the Southeast where barbecue is not so much a food but a way of life). This one's also in Harlem, same trip but completely worth it.
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YES. Yes, you will go to the Dinosaur BBQ. Yes, you will have the best barbecue you have ever had in your life. Period.
Boro_Bandito:
Man but just don't get Eugene to plan it for you. I mean, it all turned out really good when him, me, Huda and Katie(KTkat I think) went to Max Brenner's, but reserving like a table for what was it, 12 people at Dinosaur?
Ballard:
It was more like 8, and it would have been fine if most of those people had bothered to show up.
I'm looking at you Tyler, Huda, Misha, Tommy who's flight got delayed.
ViolentDove:
--- Quote from: Ballard on 09 Dec 2008, 11:19 ---There's plenty to do in New York.
I dunno what that other graffiti suggestion was but if you're really into that sort of thing, check out the Freedom Tunnel which runs from 125th St. to Midtown under Riverside Park. The grates from the park illuminate large alcoves in the walls; this creates what is essentially a natural gallery space and has made the place an attractive display area for street artists. The work on display there generally goes above and beyond your typical street tagging, ranging from murals depicting the eviction of the mole people (when the tunnel originally fell out of use by Amtrak, shanty towns sprung up inside and flourished for years. When Amtrak decided to use the tunnel again, they bulldozed the shanty towns and kicked out arrested all the homeless. Evidence of their lives, everything from school bags to novels to cheese graters, and in one spacious area even an electric chandelier, still lies scattered on the ground) to a chiaroscuro study of the Venus de Milo. Even a recreation of Goya's "The Third of May".
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This sounds so completely wonderful. If I'm ever in New York, I'm going to check this out for sure.
Tyler:
--- Quote from: Ballard on 09 Dec 2008, 14:39 ---It was more like 8, and it would have been fine if most of those people had bothered to show up.
I'm looking at you Tyler, Huda, Misha, Tommy who's flight got delayed.
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I was fashionably late.
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