The Things That Only NYC Can Give Me

It's hardest returning to New York after some time away. Reacclimating feels like torture.

But there are some things that I miss about New York, and that I'm happy to return to - things that help me feel complacent when I've been there for a while and don't feel like leaving again:

• pizza by the slice, good pretty much wherever you get it
• good tasting tap water
• bridges
• bodegas
• good friends, most notably the other two-thirds of Tres Equis XXX
• good theater, downtown to Broadway (including my Naked Angels weekly reading series, which unfortunately is on hiatus til the fall)
• Coney Island and the best ever bumper car ride, the El Dorado
• Flushing Meadows Corona Park and its World's Fair '64/65 relics
• walking (not up a mountain)
• rooftops
• taxis
• brunches

I wish there was more to come back to. I wish I didn't feel so lonely in my empty apartment, without a kitten meowing at me and watching me shower, nuzzling in the crook of my leg under the covers all night long.

But I'm here now for a while, at least until my lease expires at the end of August. I might as well make the most of it while I can.

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