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NREC34 said:
Guys I’m at the Best Western next to JFK. Got all day to kill before my wife’s flight comes in late tonight. Going to catch the lirr into Manhattan and see what I can get into. If anyone has any suggestions let me know. I wish I could tout the stock market but can’t do that anymore I guess after 9/11...

also what a ##### it was driving here yesterday from Virginia
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I'd get as far north and west as I was going and start there, which for me would be the Museum of Natural History on 81st and Central Park West. Spend a couple of hours there, then get out and head gradually south and east, hitting Central Park, Rockefeller Center, perhaps Times Square, maybe Bryant Park. Dress warm, hop some cabs, etc. Have fun.

 
Looking to catch some live music this Saturday night. Looking at Bill's Place in Harlem, would walking a few blocks from the 135 subway station be safe? Other option is the Fat Cat.

Any thoughts on these or anyone know of a good live band playing in a small venue on Saturday? Prefer to stay on Manhattan. 

 
dmac37 said:
Looking to catch some live music this Saturday night. Looking at Bill's Place in Harlem, would walking a few blocks from the 135 subway station be safe? Other option is the Fat Cat.

Any thoughts on these or anyone know of a good live band playing in a small venue on Saturday? Prefer to stay on Manhattan. 
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it's Harlem, not East New York - just always be mindful of your surroundings, as per usual  :coffee:

 
dmac37 said:
Looking to catch some live music this Saturday night. Looking at Bill's Place in Harlem, would walking a few blocks from the 135 subway station be safe? Other option is the Fat Cat.

Any thoughts on these or anyone know of a good live band playing in a small venue on Saturday? Prefer to stay on Manhattan. 
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is there a particular style of music or band you want to see? there are a dozen spots or more in a 4 block radius from my LES/EVil apt.

 
Grace Under Pressure said:
I'd get as far north and west as I was going and start there, which for me would be the Museum of Natural History on 81st and Central Park West. Spend a couple of hours there, then get out and head gradually south and east, hitting Central Park, Rockefeller Center, perhaps Times Square, maybe Bryant Park. Dress warm, hop some cabs, etc. Have fun.
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Sort of what I’m doing. Was at Nasdaq Times Square and watched the opening bell from the outside. Already forgot the name of the company that got listed today but still cool anyway. Walked north got a pic of trump tower and a very hot model in front of Tiffany’s. Went into saks 5th ave for a minute and found out I’m waaaay too poor to go in there. Went up to Central Park and walked some of it. Now I’m at the Met taking a break. Just saw that Van Gogh painting The Cypresses they said is worth 16 million bucks. 

 
NREC34 said:
Sort of what I’m doing. Was at Nasdaq Times Square and watched the opening bell from the outside. Already forgot the name of the company that got listed today but still cool anyway. Walked north got a pic of trump tower and a very hot model in front of Tiffany’s. Went into saks 5th ave for a minute and found out I’m waaaay too poor to go in there. Went up to Central Park and walked some of it. Now I’m at the Met taking a break. Just saw that Van Gogh painting The Cypresses they said is worth 16 million bucks. 
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you've done more in three hours than I've done in 3 months.

 
NREC34 said:
Sort of what I’m doing. Was at Nasdaq Times Square and watched the opening bell from the outside. Already forgot the name of the company that got listed today but still cool anyway. Walked north got a pic of trump tower and a very hot model in front of Tiffany’s. Went into saks 5th ave for a minute and found out I’m waaaay too poor to go in there. Went up to Central Park and walked some of it. Now I’m at the Met taking a break. Just saw that Van Gogh painting The Cypresses they said is worth 16 million bucks. 
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Dude walked right by my office.  I'm going to go look for that model.  

 
El Floppo said:
is there a particular style of music or band you want to see? there are a dozen spots or more in a 4 block radius from my LES/EVil apt.
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Open to most any style as long as it is good. Preference would be some type of Jazz, Latin, Bluegrass, Irish, violin/cello- not crazy high cover or drink prices.

 
Well guys I got my fill of art. Walked over to the west side of the park. Got 2 slices of NY pizza at a place called Sacco’s and now I’m at a place called House of Brews. Going to drink a couple before I head back over to Queens. I also donated 20 bucks to some guys working for a thing called Care which they say will help with human trafficking. I’m questioning if I should’ve done that. Gave them a debit card number lol. 

 
NREC34 said:
Well guys I got my fill of art. Walked over to the west side of the park. Got 2 slices of NY pizza at a place called Sacco’s and now I’m at a place called House of Brews. Going to drink a couple before I head back over to Queens. I also donated 20 bucks to some guys working for a thing called Care which they say will help with human trafficking. I’m questioning if I should’ve done that. Gave them a debit card number lol. 
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Obviously I read this at "Sbarros" and laughed my ### off in my head. 

And on the donation, you're fine...as long as you gave someone else's debit card number.

 
NREC34 said:
I also donated 20 bucks to some guys working for a thing called Care which they say will help with human trafficking. I’m questioning if I should’ve done that. Gave them a debit card number lol. 
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if it was the crew down at the Rock you should be ok  :thumbup:

 
The NY School system seems horribly broken to my outside eyes. I cannot imagine having to prep my 3yo for kindergarten admissions, having to have a kid born 12/28 start kindergarten when he's 4 or the arbitrary rezoning that can occur due to the percentage of reduced lunches.

The next example in the litany of the idiocy is the same administration that made mandatory sick leave for workers a priority also pushing a policy that causes,
 

good attendance records by prospective students are given more weight than their science and social-studies grades in the admissions process.
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With kids dying from the flu, any policy that encourages sick kids to go to school feels draconian and backwards to me.

https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/why-parents-keep-sending-their-flu-ridden-kids-to-school/

 
Koya said:
So, as of when I'm typing this, www.nydailynews.com gets you to a webpage with this following text, in maybe a 65 font - nothing else on the page. 

It works here! 162

WTF?
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Faced with struggling print subscriptions and the supremacy of the Post, even the News has to turn to horrible MLM schemes.

Have you tried that crazy wrap thing?

 
Gawain said:
The NY School system seems horribly broken to my outside eyes. I cannot imagine having to prep my 3yo for kindergarten admissions, having to have a kid born 12/28 start kindergarten when he's 4 or the arbitrary rezoning that can occur due to the percentage of reduced lunches.

The next example in the litany of the idiocy is the same administration that made mandatory sick leave for workers a priority also pushing a policy that causes,
 

With kids dying from the flu, any policy that encourages sick kids to go to school feels draconian and backwards to me.

https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/why-parents-keep-sending-their-flu-ridden-kids-to-school/
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This is actually NY state law (not NYC) but given the size of NYC student body it is much harder to deal with.  Albany really needs to fix it.  

 
Went to Westminster dog show last night, which is a classic NYC event I had always wanted to attend.  Really enjoyed it especially the ability to meet the Dogs prior to the show.  It is so much fun to have actual meet the handlers and the Dogs before they go to the floor.  

 
Redwes25 said:
This is actually NY state law (not NYC) but given the size of NYC student body it is much harder to deal with.  Albany really needs to fix it.  
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It must be recent (relatively speaking to a board of middle aged guys). When I went to school upstate, this was decidedly not the case. I have a son born 11/21. I'll fight like heck to get him held back

 
Gawain said:
It must be recent (relatively speaking to a board of middle aged guys). When I went to school upstate, this was decidedly not the case. I have a son born 11/21. I'll fight like heck to get him held back
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Local jurisdictions can make exemptions to the rule and most do automatically.  Problem is NYC has so many kids they try to apply a hard and fast rule that doesn't work so well.

Also, my son was born on Christmas Eve so very familiar on the process and I have posted in this thread about what we did.  Happy to give you input on process but my piece of advice is you should send him to Kindgarden on schedule and work to have him repeat Kindgarden.  If you don't they will just put him in first grade.  

 
Redwes25 said:
Local jurisdictions can make exemptions to the rule and most do automatically.  Problem is NYC has so many kids they try to apply a hard and fast rule that doesn't work so well.

Also, my son was born on Christmas Eve so very familiar on the process and I have posted in this thread about what we did.  Happy to give you input on process but my piece of advice is you should send him to Kindgarden on schedule and work to have him repeat Kindgarden.  If you don't they will just put him in first grade.  
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Got a little while to figure it out (he'll be three months on the 21st), but I may have to bend your ear in a few years time.

That being said if we stay on Long Island I'll just be planning to move to Great Neck and live in a 700K hovel.

 
Gawain said:
Got a little while to figure it out (he'll be three months on the 21st), but I may have to bend your ear in a few years time.

That being said if we stay on Long Island I'll just be planning to move to Great Neck and live in a 700K hovel.
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Only place you would have an issue is NYC so if you move you won't have a problem.  Congrats on the kid and hope you are getting some rest!

 
Redwes25 said:
Local jurisdictions can make exemptions to the rule and most do automatically.  Problem is NYC has so many kids they try to apply a hard and fast rule that doesn't work so well.

Also, my son was born on Christmas Eve so very familiar on the process and I have posted in this thread about what we did.  Happy to give you input on process but my piece of advice is you should send him to Kindgarden on schedule and work to have him repeat Kindgarden.  If you don't they will just put him in first grade.  
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Also previously posted, but my son was born on Christmas and we did PreK twice at a private school.  He's in K now at the same school but we are exploring charter schools in the area with a similar progressive approach.  They will all honor his current grade but if we go to regular public we can't move him until 2nd grade without being advanced.  

There are 2 kids in his current K class that have similar birthdays but they were not held back. The two of them are derailing the entire class with their maturity level.  The rule is no good for anybody.  

 
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Gawain said:
The NY School system seems horribly broken to my outside eyes. I cannot imagine having to prep my 3yo for kindergarten admissions, having to have a kid born 12/28 start kindergarten when he's 4 or the arbitrary rezoning that can occur due to the percentage of reduced lunches.

The next example in the litany of the idiocy is the same administration that made mandatory sick leave for workers a priority also pushing a policy that causes,
 

With kids dying from the flu, any policy that encourages sick kids to go to school feels draconian and backwards to me.

https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/why-parents-keep-sending-their-flu-ridden-kids-to-school/
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We've lived this first hand... Especially fourth grade when attendance counts for middle school admissions. 

Some middle schools take points away for missing as little as 3 days (most others at five)- which considering that's over an entire school year surrounded by legions of the walking dead, is insane to expect. 

The workaround for admissions is that once the kid is counted as present at the beginning of the day, they can go home sick without it being marked against them.  So, nobody keeps their kids home... It's like a MASH unit in there at the beginning of the day. Ashamed to say, we did it too (never with a bad fever or throwing up like other kids who walk into school...our kid caught Scarlet ####### fever in K because of this- as opposed to the other parents who inflected typoid Timmy on the world, we kept Jr home for a week).

And considering a lot of these kids are getting all 4s for grades and tests, the difference in the middle schools' admissions rubric can and will come down to those points marked down for absences. Our son missed three days- which basically eliminated him from one of the schools he was interested in.

It's so dismally wrong.

As is the ranking process. The better schools will only interview kids who rank them first. But you can only rank one school first, so that eliminates even consideration of up to half a dozen great schools that lil Skippy might have thrived in.

 
Nick Vermeil said:
Also previously posted, but my son was born on Christmas and we did PreK twice at a private school.  He's in K now at the same school but we are exploring charter schools in the area with a similar progressive approach.  They will all honor his current grade but if we go to regular public we can't move him until 2nd grade without being advanced.  

There are 2 kids in his current K class that have similar birthdays but they were not held back. The two of them are derailing the entire class with their maturity level.  The rule is no good for anybody.  
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I've said this before- it all even out PDQ. But in those first year or two, it really is staggering how different (more developed) the Jan kids are in all ways vs the Dec.

 
El Floppo said:
We've lived this first hand... Especially fourth grade when attendance counts for middle school admissions. 

Some middle schools take points away for missing as little as 3 days (most others at five)- which considering that's over an entire school year surrounded by legions of the walking dead, is insane to expect. 

The workaround for admissions is that once the kid is counted as present at the beginning of the day, they can go home sick without it being marked against them.  So, nobody keeps their kids home... It's like a MASH unit in there at the beginning of the day. Ashamed to say, we did it too (never with a bad fever or throwing up like other kids who walk into school...our kid caught Scarlet ####### fever in K because of this- as opposed to the other parents who inflected typoid Timmy on the world, we kept Jr home for a week).

And considering a lot of these kids are getting all 4s for grades and tests, the difference in the middle schools' admissions rubric can and will come down to those points marked down for absences. Our son missed three days- which basically eliminated him from one of the schools he was interested in.

It's so dismally wrong.

As is the ranking process. The better schools will only interview kids who rank them first. But you can only rank one school first, so that eliminates even consideration of up to half a dozen great schools that lil Skippy might have thrived in.
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Now imagine there is only one really good middle school in you district (UWS).

 
And heaven forbid you want to take a trip when the travel industry can't gauge your eyes out outside of designated school holidays. Because travel and new experiences are bad for kids.

 
The question for me today is do I do the errands I wanted to do, even though it will mean walking about 20 blocks in the snow?

 
We are definitely going to get at least a foot in total, but it looks like it will be in the mid-40s tomorrow and for the next few days, and then into the 50s next week so hopefully all of this snow will melt relatively quickly.  I love a good snow storm like today, but I hate having to deal with tons of ice and snow for weeks afterwards.  It's the best of both worlds when we get a great storm like today and then it gets warm so it melts in a few days.

 
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We are definitely going to get at least a foot in total, but it looks like it will be in the mid-40s tomorrow and for the next few days, and then into the 50s next week so hopefully all of this snow will melt relatively quickly.  I love a good snow storm like today, but I hate having to deal with tons of ice and snow for weeks afterwards.  It's the best of both worlds when we get a great storm like today and then it gets warm so it melts in a few days.
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I just shoveled and it's not too bad right now, maybe 3-4 inches. Doesn't look like much coming down now but I'm sure there's more to come.

 
jamny said:
I just shoveled and it's not too bad right now, maybe 3-4 inches. Doesn't look like much coming down now but I'm sure there's more to come.
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It's more than that in Hoboken, but it's supposed to continue snowing until 3am, according to weather.com

 
It seems to be slowing down so maybe we won't get as much as they said we would.  Still, we have gotten a good amount and if it wasn't going to warm up starting tomorrow it could stick around for a while.  I'm really hoping they are right about the temperature so it does melt quickly.

 
RC94 said:
I've walked by that place thousands of times since it's on the way to the PATH, but I have never been inside.  It's always come across as a "I drink alone" kind of place.
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I said something similar to otb the last time he mentioned that place. Never been inside and don't know a soul who has.

 
Oh my god. Saw Springsteen last night. One of the best shows I have ever seen. Period. I’m not even a huge fan, but damn. Took my wife, his music got her through her turbulent teens. She was crying, I was crying. Fantastic. 

 
My mother just told me NY is expecting ANOTHER storm, 3-6 now? Supposed to be flying in Saturday as she's bein honored by a charity she's done tons of work for, but this may be my third cancelled NY trip of the season (illness then snow)

 
Koya said:
My mother just told me NY is expecting ANOTHER storm, 3-6 now? Supposed to be flying in Saturday as she's bein honored by a charity she's done tons of work for, but this may be my third cancelled NY trip of the season (illness then snow)
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Think it is just supposed to be rain in the city supposed to happen Friday.  Not sure upstate, etc.  

 
Koya said:
My mother just told me NY is expecting ANOTHER storm, 3-6 now? Supposed to be flying in Saturday as she's bein honored by a charity she's done tons of work for, but this may be my third cancelled NY trip of the season (illness then snow)
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Latest update has snow moving further south slightly but yes more snow is possible.

 
Even if the 6 inches or so materializes, that would be the accumulation on grass. Don't expect to see much hanging on NYC streets or the airport runways. 

 
Well this has been a lot of ####### rain.

I encourage anyone looking for some sad entertainment to go find videos of flooded subways on Twitter.

 
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