If you ever find yourself near 56th and 6th and in dire need of a great, cheap meal -- or if you live anywhere in NYC and ever want an unpretentious, beer-and-burgers dinner, check out Burger Joint. It's located - believe it or not - off the lobby of the posh Parker Meridien hotel. Burger Joint has an awesome, unaffected dive-bar atmosphere, gourmet-level patties, fries with just the right amount of grease and salt, and Sam Adams on tap.
Aside from an ultimately pointless community meeting Sunday night and a quick brunch with a college friend, Burger Joint was this weekend's sole social venture. We dropped Asher off at the in-laws on Saturday evening, and met Karen and Jeremy there for dinner.
Karen and Jeremy are cut from one of the many classic New York cloths. She practices international law, and is part of the team that issued the Volker report on the U.N. oil-for-food scandal. He is a classical music critic for the New York Times and a Ph.D. student at Columbia University. They currently live in a cramped upper west side apartment, but we're trying the get them to immigrate down to Park Slope.
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On an entirely unrelated note, Sarah called me this morning kind of freaking out. Asher was dozing in his bouncy seat in the kitchen when the glass cover to the overhead light fixture just randomly fell ten feet to the ground, inches from his head. Shards of glass went in every direction - all of them missing him as he looked disinterestedly on in in his post-nap haze. Sarah said she almost had a heart attack. It scared the hell out of me to hear about it. Thankfully, Asher displays no emotional or physical scars.
Aside from an ultimately pointless community meeting Sunday night and a quick brunch with a college friend, Burger Joint was this weekend's sole social venture. We dropped Asher off at the in-laws on Saturday evening, and met Karen and Jeremy there for dinner.
Karen and Jeremy are cut from one of the many classic New York cloths. She practices international law, and is part of the team that issued the Volker report on the U.N. oil-for-food scandal. He is a classical music critic for the New York Times and a Ph.D. student at Columbia University. They currently live in a cramped upper west side apartment, but we're trying the get them to immigrate down to Park Slope.
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On an entirely unrelated note, Sarah called me this morning kind of freaking out. Asher was dozing in his bouncy seat in the kitchen when the glass cover to the overhead light fixture just randomly fell ten feet to the ground, inches from his head. Shards of glass went in every direction - all of them missing him as he looked disinterestedly on in in his post-nap haze. Sarah said she almost had a heart attack. It scared the hell out of me to hear about it. Thankfully, Asher displays no emotional or physical scars.
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