{"id":6628,"date":"2015-05-11T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2015-05-11T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:33:26","slug":"new-york-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=6628","title":{"rendered":"New York &#8211; 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/16708995154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8774\/16708995154_b54d7e0f38_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/17329573342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8849\/17329573342_8b25e2b8d1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs my travel in April continued, Julie and I went to New York for the weekend. We managed to see some family, meet up with some friends and catch a ball game. On arrival I spent the better part of an afternoon in the <a title=\"Wikipedia:  East Village\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Village,_Manhattan\">East Village<\/a>; first at <a title=\"Wikipedia:  McSorley's Old Ale House\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McSorley's_Old_Ale_House\">McSorley&#8217;s Old Ale House<\/a>\u00a0then checking out the\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.abcbeer.co\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abcbeer.co\">Alphabet\u00a0City Beer Company<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/17145215069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7724\/17145215069_04d5e62a1c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nABC Beer is one of the new store\/bar setups but they don&#8217;t allow you to drink the bottled beer that is for sale in house. They do have a rather diverse tap selection that is kept up to date on their website so you know what&#8217;s available. After ABC Beer I met up with Julie and her friends for some Playoff Hockey at <a title=\"foolsgold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foolsgoldnyc.com\">Fools Gold<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/17143872840\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7665\/17143872840_385681f7bf_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/17143675948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7740\/17143675948_f0809504c7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/17305468546\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7661\/17305468546_d25c8744dd_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a> After Fool&#8217;s Gold and some hockey we finished off the night at <a title=\"The Meatball Shop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themeatballshop.com\">The Meatball Shop<\/a> which of course is open until 3am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mets Game<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled by Julie, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julierubes\/16633374864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8684\/16633374864_96ed03b0d3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/17124014887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7791\/17124014887_fcb8c3f512_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/17305487476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8871\/17305487476_6f1f21d014_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn Sunday we met up with Julie&#8217;s family at Citi Field for the <a title=\"ESPN:  Harvey, banged-up Mets hold off Marlins 7-6 for 8th straight win.\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/recap?gameId=350419121\">Mets &#8211; Marlin&#8217;s game<\/a>. Matt Harvey was pitching and the stadium was packed. I believe the stadium was completely unprepared for the size of the crowd. In the 5th inning I attempted to get some food and ended up walking the entire lower level of the concourse looking for a line that wasn&#8217;t 10 deep. On our way out of the parking lot, there was no one directing\u00a0traffic and it ended up taking us over an hour to leave the lot. It was nice to see a crowd (and a win) but the Mets should probably put a little more effort into handling the amount of people their ballpark was built for.<br \/>\n<strong>Side Notes<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/17145215019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8835\/17145215019_3c75c021db_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Untitled by Nik Bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/16708994684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7659\/16708994684_a3ac392607_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI managed to swing by the NHL Store when they had <a title=\"Puck Daddy:  NHL, NBC have awesome Willy Wonka gimmick for Stanley Cup Playoffs.\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/nhl-puck-daddy\/nhl--nbc-have-awesome-willy-wonka-gimmick-for-stanley-cup-playoffs-231828330.html\">Playoff Bracket Bars<\/a> available. \u00a0The matchup would have been ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my travel in April continued, Julie and I went to New York for the weekend. We managed to see some family, meet up with some friends and catch a ball game. On arrival I spent the better part of an afternoon in the East Village; first at McSorley&#8217;s Old Ale House\u00a0then checking out the\u00a0Alphabet\u00a0City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,7,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-bronder-luck","category-food","category-sports","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-1IU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6639,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}