2 spoons: NYC Day 3

Today was absolutely delightful! The suffocating heat was exchanged for a cool 70 degrees with scattered showers. perfect. We started the day by heading to Times Square to stand in line at the TKTS booth to purchase cheap tickets for a broadway show. Since it was lunch time by the time we got there we decided to get some lunch. I got a MOST delicious salad box from Maoz- a Mediterranean fast food place. Jono had a slice of pizza :)

After lunch we headed towards the TKTS booth. The line was insanely long and so we decided to come back later. As we were leaving, a dude stopped us and asked if we'd like to go to a comedy club tonight.He mentioned that some actors from SNL might be there.. we figured this was a scam, but Jono really wanted to go to a comedy club whilst we were here so we decided to take the risk.

Represent in Times Square

Hoping we hadn't made a terrible mistake by buying the comedy tickets, we headed South West towards the meat packing district to go explore the High Line. This park is soooo cool and seems as though it was designed by a bunch of "anti-starbucks cool kids", as Jono put it. The following is a little excerpt of this Park's history:

The High Line is a New York City park, built on an elevated 1930s freight rail structure on the city's west side. Prior to the HIgh Line's construction, freight train accidents on the street level caused so many fatalities that the street was known as "death avenue". Built to remove dangerous freight trains from Manhattan's streets, the High Line delivered milk, meat, produce and raw and manufactured goods into upper-floor loading docks of factories and warehouses. The last train ran on the High Line in 1980, carrying a trainload of frozen turkeys.

How cool is that? Now its this uber cool park that one can walk along amidst the west side buildings. A must see when in New York- kudos to Mark Paternostro for giving us the heads up about it.

After strolling along the High Line we decided it was time for a cup of Joe. We wanted something other than Starbucks and so started hunting for a quaint coffee shop. Although we never located this ideal place, we did walk past one restaurant and saw Bob Balaban (A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman etc) sitting at a table by the window. I would've taken a picture to prove it, but didn't want to be "that guy".

Since our hopes of finding a good coffee shop were slipping, we gave in and got Starbucks in Union Square. We realized we would have enough time to zip uptown and change before our comedy show (it had gotten a little chilly). And so we did just that. Using all our navigational skills we dashed uptown, made a quick wardrobe change and zipped back down just in time to get a slice of pizza before the show.

Ahhh the show. Other than being lied to in various ways it actually turned out to be pretty enjoyable. It was no Jerry Seinfeld, but entertaining nonetheless. By the time it was done it was just before midnight and so public transportation had thinned out quite a bit. We wanted to get to 49th and 1st ave, and so hopped on a bus going in that direction. Once on board we realized we were the only ones on the bus. The bus driver used the intercom to communicate with us even though we were two seats away from him. He asked us where we wanted to go and dropped us off right at our spot. So cool. We had our own private bus for 10 minutes. On the corner of 49th and 1st is the Beekman Tower Hotel that has a 26th floor restaurant and bar. Although they were closed we still got to go up and look at the view: a great ending to a great day!

The comedy club was just around the corner from where Dave shoots his show.