To Homeboy Richard/Favorite things in NYC

It's late, I'm tired but I want to give a shout out to my homey Richard.

He is a bro I used to skate with in Hawaii and he just moved to the East Coast Metropolitan Area to get a change from Hawaii. 

I feel for the bro, because I know how difficult it can be for a Hawaii free bird to move into a hight intensity rat race, especially if it isn't the territory he grew up in.

To be in a place without family is no easy task.

I can speak from personal experience.

Anyway Chard as we call him, if you are out there and ever read this, I wanted to share some of my favorite things about NYC that can make the rat race worth it.

And for anyone living or visiting the place, here are some of the things that never got old even after 30 years of living in New York.

•Chicken Parm Sandwiches on a hero from your average joe pizza place or corner deli

•Meat Ball Parm on a hero

•Mid-day Early evening order of Calamari and a Pint

•Hopping on a train with a Honey or Homey to find shelter at the Museum of Modern Art on a freezing snowy day.

•Giving 25cents or a $1 for two at the Metropolitan Museum while watching everyone else pay $20 each (Suggested Donation) then seeing all the art that you can't see in one day then going out for lunch or a beer mid day.  or Grabbing a bottle of wine and going into Central Park with your lady to post up on a big rock and bake under the mid-day sun. (don't forget the wine opener)

•Seeing your favorite bands (or new bands) or comedians at the numerous venus all over mid-town/downtown.

•Dont get stuck in 42nd street at night seeing the lights. Just pop out of the subway check it out, then hop back into the subway Downtown and go eat or drink.

• Unreal bagels. Remember not every bagel shop has good bagels. Very few in NYC have epic bagels. Ask a local where the best bagels are and drive to that spot. Mostly Jersey, Upstate New York, and random spots in Manhattan/Brooklyn have the best bagels. David's Bagels in NYC (pretty good)

•Bagel toasted with butter.

•Bagel with cream cheese

•Bagel with cream cheese and lox

•East a cinammon raison bagel plain

•Order a dozen and bring them home to your fam

•BACON EGG AND CHEESE ON A ROLL WITH Salt Pepper Ketchup. (ALWAYS EPIC pretty much anywhere)

My homey James and I along with millions of others order this everyday sometimes. 

•Ordering a "Coffee Regular" everyday - a coffee with perfect amount of milk and sugar 

•A street vendor cart hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut. 

• A street vendor cart Kinish with mustard and onions

•Chinatown. You almost can't go wrong walking into any Chinese Restaurant.

But Mid/Radical grade is "Hop Kee" or "Wo Hop" both right next door to each other.

•Any Random Broadway show is worth it. The more you go to the more you learn about theater.

•Spring and Fall

•A mid day walk through SoHo ending up in Little Italy

•The Museum of Natural History

• If you're going to explore Central Park, a good place to start is at Linclon Center or Near the Metropoloitan Museum. Find a Rock Hill and take a break there and enjoy the view of the buildings to a lunch or a glass of wine.

•Any of the epic restaurants that you hear about, Tons of new ones down town, lower east side area.

If you are going to drive into Manhattan on any day besides Sunday when there is a lot of free parking, Park in Hoboken an catch the Path train, to Manhattan, but before you park stop off at Maria's Bakery at 

261 2nd St

and pick up any random loaf of bread that looks good to you and OMG you are stoked.

Hoboken Bakeries have some of the best bread on the planet earth hands down.

munch on that bread while walking to a some nearby store which sells fresh mozzarella and olives

then throw that in your back pack for a snack in the park.

Remember if you go into the city during the winter, be prepared wearing your most efficient cold gear or layers with gloves, scarf, hat, thermal underwear, so you can be a True "40 below Troopah"

**for me thermal underwear aka-long johns top and bottoms** were the top secret tools that got me through da wicked winter.

A trip to Europe from Newark or JFK... like to Italy, London, Amsterdam, Paris, is like 4-600 bucks sometimes. Hmmm. Much cheaper than from Hawaii. Take advantage brah!

So that's what I got Chard Braddah.

Enjoy the East Coast, and I hope to see you back on the island when your done catching your East Coast Frills.

Aloha,

Call me anytime.

Man Dog