{"id":266,"date":"2003-10-04T02:11:23","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T09:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2003-10-04T02:11:23","modified_gmt":"2003-10-04T09:11:23","slug":"new-york-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/10\/new-york-state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"New York state of mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in a New York state of mind tonight, missing the city. I was put there by an article<\/a> by Gary Shteyngart in the New York Times magazine; not so much an article really as an autobiography told through a succession of New York storiesGoogling Shteyngart takes me straight to a piece<\/a> in Slate where he drools over Toqu\u00e9’s foie gras! I once flew to Montreal for dinner there (on the occasion of Felix’s birthday) and it remains one of the standout dinners of my life. Strange, I thought I blogged it, but of course this was in the year 2 BB (before blog). It certainly would have been a bloggable event.<\/span>. Which brought back my own New York stories. I need to write those down sometime, eventhough I suspect late nineties NYC is going to be the next early nineties Prague.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what to make of Shteyngart’s assertion that NYC is regaining its old desperate grittiness. Read<\/a> LES blogs<\/a> and you hear of nothing but an accelerating schedule of hotel and bistro openings. A recent vicious rumor had 7B colonized by khaki-wearing upper east siders. I need to check New York’s pulse, and will do so when Guy and Sue get married there in a few weeks time. I’ll report back here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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