Tomorrow is the 40th annual Atlantic Antic, the biggest street fair in NYC. It’s right outside our front door.
Two miles of food, fun, and music.
I will eat well…
Category: Brooklyn
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More Jeter
Amusingly, being an Apply fanboy and hating the Yankees must be tough. Because your best blogger is a huge Yankees fan.
And he’s a much better writer than I am…
It felt like fall, not summer, last night in the northeast. Chilly and damp, dark already by the time the ballgame started just after seven o’clock. Yankee Stadium was sold out. Full house. Electric with anticipation.
And then…
Winning run on second base. One out. Everyone in The Stadium is standing. I’m standing watching at home. My son, 10, is standing on the couch next to me. The tension is excruciating. First pitch, Jeter jumps on it with his signature inside-out swing. Single to right! Richardson beats the throw to the plate. Yankees win. Yankees win. Pandemonium. My boy jumps off the couch into my arms and we run around the house, hugging, screaming, laughing like the maniacs that we are.
Things like this just aren’t supposed to happen. Real-life endings aren’t like scripted storybook endings. Except with Jeter they so often were. That broken-bat RBI grounder in the 7th was a realistic ending. A spectacular walk-off game-winning single in the bottom of the 9th was not. It felt like the World Series. It felt like the old days.
Yes it did.
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Storybook
Even the weather behaves for Derek Jeter. The forecast was for rain all night. The papers were saying that ticket brokers could lose a million dollars if the game got rained out. But no, the weather changed and Jeter got another story book night.
If you wrote this in a story it wouldn’t be believable. Of course the Yankees blow a three run lead in the ninth so that Jeter can come up in the bottom of the ninth with a chance to win his last game at Yankee Stadium.
And of course he does it.
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Remembering
Another 9/11 anniversary. As always, I’ll link to my post remembering the friends we lost.
I actually flew home today. I had a meeting in Chicago yesterday. When I booked the trip for a meeting on the 10th it didn’t dawn on me right away when I’d be flying home. Clicking on the return date, there was a real pause, should I really do this?
I was only slightly freaked out this morning…
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S’Long Jeet
Regular readers know I’m a Yankee fan and that Mariano Rivera was my favorite ever. Jeter has to be second.
Via The New Yorker. Cover art by a Red Sox fan.
The Yankees aren’t much this year, so Jeter’s last year is the story. He’s earned it.
#6 all time for hits (#4 modern era).
That’s first ballot Hall of Fame right there.
The career was story book.
– World Series his rookie year
– MVP of Subway World Series
– The Flip. The signature moment of his career, in my opinion. The live broadcast play by play as it happened:
Derek Jeter with one of the most unbelievable plays you will ever see by a shortstop
Just watch it:
– Mr. November. You can’t make this stuff up. Bottom of the 10th, World Series, pushed back because of 9/11. First MLB game in November. Walk off home run.
– 3000 hits.
3000. History. With an exclamation point.
He starts the game two hits shy. Gets a lead-off single. Next at bat, against David Price (no slouch) he gets 3000 with a home run. Not to rest, he finishes the day 5-5.
And he dates well too…
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My Joint
The NY Times has an interesting article about restaurants near hospitals. It talks about my favorite joint, the Waterfront Ale House (there are two, one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn).
Several people recommended the Waterfront Ale House in Kips Bay, a popular option for the families of patients at both NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue, along with the hospital staffs. It has become a bona fide foodie destination as well, thanks to the celebrity chef April Bloomfield, who has professed her love of Waterfront’s hot wings everywhere from Food & Wine to The Financial Times. Waterfront’s owner, Sam Barbieri, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, and operates a smoker in Brooklyn, where the ale house has another branch.
Amusingly, while I was at my favorite joint, my favorite bartender showed me that article and gave me my favorite beer. Then I read my RSS feed on my phone and saw this:
The beer I was drinking.
From Business Insider: How 16 Of The Oldest Companies On Earth Have Been Making Money For Centuries
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Walls Should Have No Holes
For the tiny minority who care about my personal blogs, an update to the Floors Should be Flat post.
The follow up truth is that the leak was not due to their dishwasher and the “fact” that they had a dishwasher leak wasn’t even true. That was a big fat red herring.
The reality is that the building has a pipe leak somewhere which caused both leaks. Unfortunately they haven’t figured out exactly where the leak is.
So now we have two holes in our walls to expose the pipes that are leaking (but only occasionally). Our superintendent cut them but couldn’t determine the cause this afternoon so he’s showing up early tomorrow because the leaks seem to be caused by showers upstairs. Hopefully he can figure it out.
The good news is that the building will pay for all of this. The bad news is that it’s going to get worse before it gets better…
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Floor should be flat
I mentioned our great weekend in Nantucket but didn’t mention the return home. When we walked in, I headed to the kitchen and nearly tripped. Because our wood floors had buckled.
Our neighbor apparently had a dishwasher leak. Their dishwasher is directly opposite the wall where the buckling starts. But they are arguing that this could not have caused so much damage and there must be some other issue.
Possibly true.
But the facts as of today are:
- There was a dishwasher leak in their apartment
- Right after that, we had water damage
- The water damage started exactly opposite their dishwasher
This is tricky because we really like our neighbors. And regardless of the cause, it’s not like they wanted to flood our place. So we can’t be mad. But at the end of the day, replacing wood floors isn’t cheap, so who wouldn’t want to put the blame elsewhere? (in a co-op, a building leak would be paid for by the building). So I get their reaction.
The bad thing here is that this could drag on for a while. I don’t care who is to blame, I just want my floors fixed.
We’ll see how this plays out…
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RE2PECT
The Jeter haters out there won’t like this…
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Construction
I’ve posted a few times about the garage across from my office that got knocked down and the construction currently going on. I now know that there will be 5 luxury townhouses built at a minimum price of $4.1 million.
I don’t think I can afford this neighborhood…
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