Appreciating Location
I have lived all over the north east in every environment. I grew up on the super suburbs of Smithtowon Long Island. I went to college in the little city of Albany, NY. I’ve lived in the suburbs of Vermont in Norwich, VT and in the rural farmlands of Canaan, NH. I lived in a fabricated company town in Herndon, VA and in the gritty streets of Brooklyn’s East Williamsburg/Bushwick. After a few weeks, The East Village feels like the promise land.
There are a lot of subtlies of your neighborhood that you start to appreciate when you move around a lot. Today’s simple pleasure was bagel’s and coffee… let me explain…
This morning I picked up bagels at David’s Bagels. In a lot of parts of this country, that means you pick up coffee at the Bagel place. It’s often inconvenient or time consuming to get your coffee elsewhere. Ultimately this means you wind up with a “bagel shop” coffee. However, in the East Village you can pick up a bagel from one of the cities most highly rates bagel shops and pick up coffee on the way back home at my favorite coffee shop Trallucci e Vino. It’s a funny thing to appreciate but being able to pick up my favorite cup of coffee and a damn fine NYC bagel is not something that goes unnoticed.
