Delicious desserts at Rocco's Pastry Shop.
Good friend Maris. Former Chicagoan, now Brooklynite.
Upright Citizens Brigade. I like Second City better, but this was fun.
Peanut butter and jelly, dulce de leche, and rose petal donuts.
Cuteness.
Holiday Inn Soho.
The New Museum.
Chinese New Year.
We didn't go in, but we should've.
New York-ish street.
The Empire State Building
I was trying to put my finger on what makes Chicago different from New York. I came up with this:
- Chicago is more spacious. Bigger apartments, streets, and restaurants.
- Chicago has balconies, NYC has fire escapes.
- As many cool restaurants, stores, bars, and events as Chicago's got, it seems to just be multiplied in New York.
- Chicago is more casual, NYC is more stylish.
- Chicago's cleaner. I guess that's because we have alleys to put our trash in.
- I think NYC's got a weirdness factor (a good weirdness factor) that Chicago doesn't. The Far Rockaways? Bizarre and awesome.
- Cooler public transit in Chicago (I always prefer elevated lines to subways) but faster and more efficient transit in NYC.
- You can't beat Lake Michigan. The water in NYC isn't nearly as pretty.
- Chicago's way better at snow removal.
For as much as I've always loved NYC, I would never trade it for Chicago. Our city is the best!!!
ReplyDeleteI am not about to concede Second City's superiority to the Big Apple, but Apple, you make a convincing argument: every restaurant is so small and good that it feels like a "find," the cabs accept credit cards without issue, each bar has its own line-up of beers that seem like they might surprise even the snobbiest of beer snobs, and the newspaper is tops. Still, give me a deeper dish, a breezier beach, and white socks. At least for now ...
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