I Dream Awake

I finally went to Trader Joe’s today. Hadn’t been since it opened a few months ago. Huge mistake. The place isn’t as large as I’d like but it’s food heaven at amazing prices. Addicted to carrot juice? 4 bucks and change! That’s a 3rd less than anywhere else in the city. Want some goat cheese on that slice of pizza? Half the price of Fairway… And they had been the lowest price I’d found so far. Want to fill your freezer with potstickers but don’t want to spend all the time and mess it takes to follow Alton Brown’s recipe? TJ has ‘em for the same price as the bulk dumpling shop I go to in Chinatown but at much better quality. I picked up a bag of shrimp and a bag of pork, but for my Kosher keeping friends out there they have vegetable too…

Well at least now I know what my next target with a camera is. I’ll go back and post the proof here of the too good to be true selection and prices.

Was just at the Shake Shack earlier tonight, in a rush from picking someone up at Newark Airport, and those s.o.b’s didn’t give me my burger! We ordered two Shacks and two Double Shacks (for 4 of us total) and they only put 3 burgers in the bag. Of course since we were already running late and jumped right in a cab heading up to Grand Central (total ride time: less than 2 mins!!!) no one checked in the bag to see if they were all there. Ooops!

Oh well.. we shared the ones we had and it was all it’s usual goodness anyway.

Ah, but this might explain why one of the burgers went missing:

As you can plainly see, the Shack doesn’t exist. Crafty food service employees, aren’t they?

I’ve been a strong supporter of Moynihan station for a very longtime. Back when he was still alive, was my favorite Senator, and the station didn’t yet share his name, in fact. If this is what it takes to get it done, I’m all for it:

Not only would Mr. Roth build Moynihan Station, but he would remake the cramped and dreary Pennsylvania Station itself, turning it into a monumental gateway to New York under a sweeping glass canopy.

The Garden would move a block west to the rear of the Farley building, allowing Mr. Roth, the chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, and his partner, Stephen M. Ross, the chairman of Related Companies, to build a commercial complex on top of Penn Station akin to Rockefeller Center, with five towers and seven million square feet of office space, apartments and stores.

Just don’t get rid of the intermodal hall. That’s the whole game for me.

That pretty much sums it up.

Another great visual event by way of Gothamist.