Experiencing Greenwich Village

This evening, Wife and I officially give up our Greenwich Village apartment. When we moved into the apartment last August, we were initially dismayed with the thought of squeezing into a studio apartment for a year. Within a week, we began to love our double studio overlooking Broadway. Earlier this week, we moved all of our stuff out of the old apartment and into the new one. As we started carrying boxes out, Wife actually started to cry – we really did grow fond of the place over the last year.

We also grew very fond of Greenwich Village. I remember our first evening in the city. Wife and I decided to take a walk to find something for dinner. We had arrived earlier in the day after taking a red-eye from the West Coast. By dinner time, we were completely disoriented. We were exhausted, annoyed, and starving. We wanted a quick, cheap bite to eat, but, after walking for what felt like hours, we couldn’t find anything reasonably priced to eat. The best we could find were pathetic little sandwiches. Wife was annoyed because she was so tired and hungry. I was annoyed because I just paid $20 for two small take-out sandwiches. As we sat and ate our sandwiches we really didn’t know what the year would bring. As it turns out, we lived around the corner from a plethora of amazing, cheap eateries. But it did take us a while to find them.

Over the next week or so, we will highlight some of our favorite places to eat in the Village. Frequently, tourists stop us on the street and ask us where they should go to eat (I suppose we look like friendly New Yorkers). We’ve been giving solicited advice on the street for going on a year – now we’ll give some unsolicited advice on the internet. To date, my post on my favorite bagel shops is the most post on the blog. Maybe people will be just as interested in our opinion on where to get pizza, falafel, Hallal, Chinese, and Italian.