It was another scorcher of a day, but at least we didn't have to go to work.
Headed down Fifth Ave. and had a nice lunch at Press 195. Continued on our way to the Pavilion movie theater to see The Break-Up. Our expectations were low so it ended up surprising us and did have some funny moments, like this one from IMDB:
Brooke: I think you're just a little embarrassed that Richard kicked your ass. Gary: There's a really big gap between getting your ass kicked and having a dancing, singing sprite fool you with trickery and then strike your throat before you know that you're even *in* a fight.
There were some good Chicago references that made us long for our old home city:
- Tour Bus/Boat on Michigan Ave./Chicago River
- Water Tower
- Smith and Wolensky
- Fireside Bowl
- Skylark
- The Riviera (Old 97's playing there)
- Cubs/Sox
- Weiner Circle
- Notre Dame/Michigan football game
- Lakefront
- And of course, the real estate market (compared to NYC)
All in all, it wasn't a bad movie and not nearly as awful as the trailers we saw for Step Up.
Meanwhile we headed home walking down Prospect Park West and saw that 8th Ave had been blocked off due to a bomb threat! We ended up going to 7th Ave. to grab dinner at Santa Fe Grill, which was serviceable but nothing to write home about. Turned on NY1 and News 12 Brooklyn but no info! Of course, the only place to find out anything was the local Park Slope message boards! And I needed to pick up dry cleaning on 7th but couldn't because the street it was on had been blocked off by the police too. Will be interesting to see what the cops find out. Weird to think about all this commotion taking place in The Slope.
UPDATE: Still no coverage on this story in the local news! Was it a mere practice run?
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