the modern restaurant at the MoMA

 Koushaw, Chris, Michael, Youhana, and I went to The Modern in celebration.  it was the nicest restaurant i've ever been to and the best food i've ever had.  i ordered the fixed meal and chose the lobster, filet mignon, and chocolate cake (pictured below).  NBD.

three musicians by pablo picasso 

tim burton exhibit at the MoMA

the entrance 

downtown buildings

Woolworth building

Bleekman Tower: the new Frank Gehry building which has a curved stainless steel exterior.

City Hall


financial district 

paper cutout of new york

A cool piece of art in the NYU lobby of the woolworth building. Paper cutouts of new york landmarks and students.

Ultraviolet Live: NYU's annual talent show

poi, weinstein, 2nd place

the group from hayden, including my suitemate Christian on saxophone

Chiboucas does standup

Michael Chiboucas at the Gotham comedy club in New York, he was hilarious!

a great speech

nyu's first snow day / biggest snowball ever

check out this giant snowball I made during the first snowball fight of the semester.

 washington square park - february 10th

one of my professors said it was the first nyu snow day in more than 30 years! nbd

new york rangers game at madison square garden

rangers vs. predators at madison square garden

Me, Bobby, Toby, & Aalok

neon indian + atlas sound concert at NYU

poster advertising the show

neon indian

atlas sound (bradford cox of deerhunter) 

me + van gogh's masterpiece

probably my favorite painting in existence, 

Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night at the MoMA.  NBD

Photo courtesy of Nancy Benner, September 2009.

steve forbes speech at stern

steve forbes, ceo and editor in chief of forbes magazine, in the middle

he gave a pretty great speech mostly about the superiority of the free market system above all others, typical spiel.  pretty cool i guess.  

my trip to the United Nations headquarters

Today I headed up to the UN headquarters on 42nd street & 1st avenue to take a tour of the buildings and learn more about the organization.

the outside of the general assembly and the flags of all 192 member nations

offices for each nation next door

outdoor statue representative of the UN's peacekeeping goals

the inside of the general assembly chamber, the place where delegates from each nation come together

awesome buildings

the chrysler building

radio city music hall + rockefeller center 

the plaza hotel

The Colbert Report

Tonight I attended a taping of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central.  The tickets were free and it was really cool to see how they taped a TV show and what went on behind the scenes.  Stephen Colbert was hilarious and seemed like a really cool guy in person when he talked to the audience "out of character" during a question and answer session.  They were very strict about not taking pictures but I was able to get just this one with my iPhone.  You can see Colbert in the middle, the set of his show behind him, and the audience in the foreground.  

A pretty cool adventure for a tuesday night in new york.  nbd

free vampire weekend show

Tonight in Union Square, Barnes & Nobel hosted a special event called "Upstairs at the Square: Writers & Artists Mixed".  Author and poet Kwame Dawes and Vampire Weekend were the guests of tonight's edition of this free program for the few hundred in attendance.  Vampire Weekend played an acoustic set of 4 songs including "Horchata", "White Sky", and "Oxford Comma".  Between VW's songs Kwame Dawes, winner of an Emmy Award for his documentation of life in Jamaica, performed selections of spoken word and poetry for the audience.  This "social mixer" of creative professionals was kind of a half-baked idea as it was clear the crowd was there to see Vampire Weekend play from their new album rather than listen to poetry being recited.  In the end through, it didn't matter the band sounded great and the crowd was glad to attend a free show in a unique convert venue.

photos courtesy of Tyler York

the blakely (lol)

the hotel named after me in midtown.  nbd.