OK!
I'm excited to go to new york
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 13 September 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
yeah Soho also has all the chains (Uniqlo, Gap, BR, J Crew, American Apparel, Levis Store etc.)
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 September 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
you may want to try Century 21 in lower manhattan, good place for discounted luxury stuff. some of it is STILL expensive but you can get, like, $200 shirts for $75. I usually only come out of there with one or two things and you need to leave yourself a lotta time to browse but the stuff I get there I'd never be able to afford if I just went to that brand's store in soho or whatever.
― dmr, Friday, 13 September 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
I've gotten some pretty sick ties at Century 21 (Brioni and the like) for good prices -- you have to dig a bit for the ones that aren't ugly or weird colors, but you can find steals.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 September 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
feel like i havent found something i liked at century 21 in so long
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 September 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
it's usually a fuckin mess in there but I went last week and they've changed around the men's floor a lot and dialed back the chaos
― dmr, Friday, 13 September 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
yeah i was gonna rep for century 21. their shoe store is good too
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Friday, 13 September 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
oh didn't see that Hurting already mentioned C21
although it seems like women have better luck there than men
maybe in general ... my wife hates the place though ... never finds anything, won't really go there anymore.
― dmr, Friday, 13 September 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
I mean I haven't been in a while, but there's a lot of weird sort of eurofashion-looking stuff there that might technically be a good deal but is just way outside my style.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
it was somewhere on ilx that someone described it as the place where you go, get into some good deals, and then discover you just walked out with a bunch of shiny shirts.
but it's not bad for some stuff, true
― chinavision!, Friday, 13 September 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
lol otm
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
I bought my most colorful sweater ever there, and some otherwise awesome-fitting jeans that had what I could only describe as a silvery Hugo Boss "plaque" on the belt line on the back, but as long as you didn't tuck a shirt in you couldn't see it
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
oh there are def a lot of things there where I'm like hey that shirt's kinda nice and then it turns out there's a giant tiger stitched on the back. pro tip, don't buy those shirts
― dmr, Friday, 13 September 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
I know! But I'm not very good at shopping, and after three or four stitched tiger reveals I just fall to my knees and throw up my hands in despair.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
NO
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
adam, if you stay in clinton hill or fort greene i am going to make you stay out late drinking w/ me.also, not that long a commute to lincoln center -- G train transfer to the A at hoyt st gets you there in like 40 minutes or so, ime.street parking not a problem around here either.
― ian, Friday, 13 September 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Ok! Late night drinking it is.
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Saturday, 14 September 2013 04:45 (ten years ago) link
I maybe go to new york in november
who wants to come drink w/me, my wee bro & my dad lol
― cozen, Friday, 27 September 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
When in nov? I am there 13th to 23rd.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Friday, 27 September 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
short hop - 13th to 17th iirc
― cozen, Friday, 27 September 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
fuck, i'm flying to new york tomorrow. first time. v excited, but last-minute late-night packing is a real grind. will be scouring this thread for advice and ideas.
― Fizzles, Friday, 27 September 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
don't pack toothpaste, you can probably borrow some
― schlump, Friday, 27 September 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
dont bring any bagels or pizza
― ภค๓ครՇє (lag∞n), Friday, 27 September 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
It's getting cold at night now so bring a jacket and possibly a beanie cap or whatever you call them in your strange land.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Friday, 27 September 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
Fizzles I would hella fap w u btw. But no worries if not.
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 September 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
all good advice. Jon - likewise! FAP wd be really good. In theory I'm working, but can't believe all my evenings will be taken up - there till Thursday if you're around.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 28 September 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
― cozen, Friday, September 27, 2013 3:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes!
― caek, Saturday, 28 September 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Can't remember why caek is in NYC and thread is too long. You have academic position here now?
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
fap with cozen family sometime between 13th and 17th?
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
yes
yes xp
― caek, Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Where? NYU, Columbia, NJIT?
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
columbia. fixed term faculty thing. not TT. lots of teaching and not much research, which suits me fine.
― caek, Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Cool. Have you met Chris W*gg*ns?
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
chris wugguns
― ภค๓ครՇє (lag∞n), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, him too.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
i haven't! i've heard tell of him though. known to you?
― caek, Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
people weren't kidding when they said autumn is nice here btw
― caek, Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Yes, it is. And yes, I know him, he is a really nice guy. I met him at NYU when I was a grad student and he was a postdoc. Haven't seen him too much recently, he is pretty busy these days though, has three small kids.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
ha I literally just saw him on college walk I think.
― caek, Saturday, 28 September 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
Think the last time I saw him was a few years ago when his first kid was a few months old and I went with Chris and ilxor tipsy mothra to see the similarly-named fellow Columbia professor and fellow trombonist Chris Washburne play his old Sunday night gig at Smoke.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
Don't understand why all the other ppl in new york aren't in the queue for standby partridge tickets with me and six other British-looking men in their 30s
― caek, Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
several pubs called the AP film "mediocre"
I have seen about one hour of Partridge TV to date
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
Oh ja I'm sure it's a dreadful film, don't get me wrong. Coogan is here.
― caek, Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
plz tell me he was greeted with a mass shout of "ah HAAAAAAH"
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 September 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
OK so we will be staying in Crown Heights/mostly at Lincoln Center Wed-Sun. I will be trying to watch as much as possible, so not sure if I'm up for a formal FAP, but then maybe many of you don't know or care who I am anyway. Possible drinks or whatever around festival or CH sounds good though.
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Monday, 30 September 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
CH totes do-able, most of us live somewhere around or within spitting distance.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 30 September 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
couple of minor ahaaahs, and also someone in the audience tried to coax him into doing his pacino impression. he demurred.
definitely down for swift halves with adam this week.
― caek, Monday, 30 September 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Adam, what nights/hours work for you? Let's throw an idea out now so ppl can plan?
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 30 September 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Or start a fb msg thingy so when anyone updates it we can all see?
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 30 September 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link