As our regular readers may know, Wife and I have made weekly tradition out of Saturday morning breakfast. When we first moved to Greenwich Village, the excitement of real New York bagels kept us busy for our first year. Every Saturday morning, we would go to a bagel shop and enjoy a bagel (and usually share a coffee) at the most famous bagel shops in the area.
When we moved to Midtown, our Saturday tradition evolved into getting breakfast and taking it to eat in Bryant Park every Saturday morning (we went about 18 months without missing a Saturday morning). However, now that it's getting cold and we don't want Katie to freeze, we have developed a new tradition over the last couple of months: Saturday morning breakfast at Westway Diner which is located extremely close to our apartment. I realize that means nothing to everybody who reads our blog, but I thought I would share this because this diner is legendary amongst locals, and is particularly popular with tourists for one reason. Westway Diner is the spot that Larry David approached Jerry Seinfeld about what would finally become their incredibly popular "show about nothing" (rather than at Tom's Diner on the Upper West Side which is the facade that was used in the show).
Larry David (the co-creater and producer of Seinfeld) used to live in an apartment building called Manhattan Plaza just up the street from us. We understand that his neighbor, Kenny Kramer (whom the character "Kramer" was based on) still lives there.
The Manhattan Plaza offers nice apartments to those who are in the "arts" (i.e., actors and actresses). The waiting list to live there is HUGE. If you want to see some passion, ask Wife how she feels about the fact that we can't rent an apartment, but instead need to pay considerably more.
According to Wikipedia (which is always reliable), here is a partial list of current and former residents that you may have heard of:
* Al Pacino
* Alan Menken
* Alicia Keys
* Adrian Pasdar
* Zachary Quinto
* Conan O'Brien
* Terrence Howard
* Tennessee Williams
* Marin Alsop
* Dylan Baker
* Mike Freeman
* Dexter Gordon
* Charles Mingus
* James Earl Jones
* Jack Warden
* Mickey Rourke
* Andrea McArdle
* Thomas Adcock
* Lewis Black
* Larry David
* Kenny Kramer
* Tiki Barber
Samuel L. Jackson worked there as a security officer in his first and only non-acting job.
Bruce Willis used to work at the West Bank Cafe at the base of the building.
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