diane birch @ roosevelt island

best summer outdoor concert: diane birch at roosevelt island. away from the fray of summerstage and south street seaport (shar was there yesterday for bmsr), the riverwalk commons at roosevelt island hosts a quaint venue for free tunes as part of roosevelt l!ve. not too crowded and plenty of grass to park it.

bonus: you can get a bucket of beers to enjoy with your tunes. one of the fews spots in the city where they don't crack down on you for the alchie consumption.


diane's vocals harken back to old female vocalists of yonder, namely carole king for me. jenn thought karen carpenter. listen to her set for wxpn and you be the judge.



thanks jenn for snapping this pic of diane and i. she was quite obliging. i asked if her album was on vinyl and she said soon. she was excited to have it pressed. good answer.

roosevelt island yo!

best i'm a tourist in my own state: ride the tram to roosevelt island. jenni put the awesome idea in my head to ride the tramway. it is on the ny to do list, so we finally made it out today to ride it. totally fun! it's like an adult amusement park ride really. plus, it's covered by your mta metrocard. we splurged 25 cents for the red bus. we rode the entire route south to north, which was like 10-15 minutes roundtrip. awesome! one will see the lic costco and the farmers market under the bridge.

here's a view of the north from the tram.

must after tram eats: patsy's. i've been meaning to try this pizza since i heard the folks from grimaldi's started there. it was aight, but not grimaldi's. it definitely satisfied my pizza craving tho. then, jenni came up with the brilliant idea to have dessert at levain bakery for some awesome cookies that she dreamt about the night before. seriously these cookie were not to be missed and we totally ate them. YUM!