{"id":736,"date":"2014-10-09T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turneyduff2.dev\/?p=736"},"modified":"2014-10-09T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T13:49:13","slug":"i-love-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/09\/i-love-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I strategically parked on 31st Street near Kips Bay Movie Theater. I was going to see\u00a0Gone Girl\u00a0<\/i>later, but first I was meeting some friends up on 43rd Street. It was a Monday, one of those warm fall days that makes you think global warming isn’t so bad. I didn’t mind walking the 13 blocks. After getting my ticket from the garage attendant, I headed up Lexington Avenue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I passed by a bar with a TV that was showing ESPN highlights to a crowd of zero, an old hotel, an even older doorman building and a cleaners. Lexington Avenue doesn’t have the kind of identity that Park, Madison and 5th have. It’s kind of a mishmash of retail, commercial and residential buildings. But it’s not a destination for recent college grads either. If the Avenues were described as states\u2014Lexington would be Delaware. It’s just kind of there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As I got closer to my endpoint, I gazed across the street to see an old haunt of mine. It was once called the Wetbar; it now has a red sign that just says BAR. It’s still a hotel bar, and from the outside it looks exactly the same. I turned my head and caught my reflection in a glass window.\u00a0Wow, my hair is long.<\/i>\u00a0It looked like an Olympic ski jump in the back.\u00a0I need a haircut bad.<\/i>\u00a0Typically I don’t like to play Russian roulette with my hair, but this was a time for a spontaneous cut. Ironically, on the next block there was a hair salon. I prefer a barber, but I was desperate.<\/p>\n

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I strategically parked on 31st Street near Kips Bay Movie Theater. I was going to see\u00a0Gone Girl\u00a0later, but first I was meeting some friends up on 43rd Street. It was a Monday, one of those warm fall days that makes you think global warming isn’t so bad. I didn’t mind walking the 13 blocks. After … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}