a.) I have no idea where to vote tomorrow. I can't find the slip I was mailed (um, suprise) and the new york elections dept. website does not have a listing and their 24-hour automated telephone line has a recording that they are closed for business... grrrrr. update:While all the well known info sites to find your polling place info are pretty fucked up (in nyc, both web and phone is down), a less known about number just worked for me: 1.212.868.3692) update part deux:actually it looks like i was just lucky. I tried the number again, to double check, and it is all beep-beep busy like again... sorry.
b.) Frank Bruni, the current Times resturaunt critic (who covered GWB in 2000) is going to be writing an election night 'weblog'.
He also suggest places new yorkers should eat tomorrow night:
Posted by thickeye at November 1, 2004 09:45 PM | TrackBack
1. CRAFT, 43 E. 19th Street (212-780-0880). With all the close calls, complaints, lawsuits and other convolutions that could well greet us on Wednesday, simplicity may be the way to go on Tuesday night. At this extraordinarily handsome, inviting restaurant, the chef Tom Colicchio takes an unadorned approach toward fresh, first-rate ingredients.2. SUSHI YASUDA, 204 E. 43rd Street (212-972-1001). No matter which candidate you want to win, your nerves will be in tatters on Tuesday night. Few restaurants are as relaxing as this one, with its clean lines, light woods and pristine fish. The prices are extremely high, so think of the bill as a patriotic investment in the economy.
3. GARDEN CAFE, 620 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn (718-857-8863). Very small, very unpretentious, very out of the way. If you want to feel far, far removed from the swirling storm of last-minute jockeying by the candidates and preening prognostications by the pundits, this place could be your calm shelter. The creative American food also happens to be impressive. Call first to make sure you can get one of the few tables.
4. CAFE RIAZOR, 245 W. 16th Street (212-727-2132). In a subterranean grotto, addictive sangria, respectable paella and a friendly staff awaits. Riazor is frumpy but authentic and relatively inexpensive, and you can order that sangria by the pitcher. If the reports from Florida echo the ones in 2000, you may need to.
5. RED CAT, 227 Tenth Avenue (212-242-1122). With your vote, you are surely trying to nudge the country in a sensible direction. Why not weave the right kind of electoral karma with the most sensibile of restaurant choices? The Red Cat does not dazzle, but it delights, and it does that in an extremely warm American-bistro environment, at a fair enough price.