[Rabbit01]

I’m visiting Boston and NYC for a few days. Any recommendation is very welcome.

Food, Art, Activities.

For Boston:

I am pretty certain that the Isabella Steward Garden is must go.

I talked to someone who said that the contemporary art museum could be skipped due to its “art.”

I am currently checking out the Freedom Trail but I am a bit disappointed that the history about the Puritans and Revolution is not going much in depth.

New York:

I wanted to visit the Frick collection but sadly they are not open until 2025.

I will be visiting the Metropolitan Art Museum. The fact that they have Vermeer is reason enough to go.

I don’t know if they are any sites for Objectivism. Like Ayn Rand’s apartment or the Nathaniel Branden Institute. I will search online when I arrive there but any help is appreciated.

/sb

[JoseDonis]

Re: Tristan Schuijtvlot’s post 104340 of 9/28/24

Since OCON will be in Boston next summer, maybe the Bostonians on HBL could inform us of various restaurants, museums, and concert halls near the event hotel.

If anyone could recommend a good golf course (public or semi-private), that’s where I’ll be the morning on which no OCON events are scheduled.

/sb

[Harry Binswanger]

Re: Tristan Schuijtvlot’s post 104340 of 9/28/24

Mike Berliner and Anu Seppala have done a guide to all the Ayn Rand sites in the U.S. Many are, of course, in NYC. The really important ones are walking distance from each other: The Bromley (Lexington and 35th St.) where she finished writing The Fountainhead, 36 E. 36th St., where she wrote the second half of Atlas, and “The Objectivist Ethics,” et al., and 120 E. 34th St., where she lived from 1965 to her death (there) in March 1982 (and where I visited her to play Scrabble and talk philosophy).

Food in NYC, my favorite restaurant is gone (Neary’s), but you probably would enjoy one of AR’s favorites: the Russian Tea Room, virtually next door to Carnegie Hall.

If you can get a tour of Grand Central Terminal (the inspiration for the Taggart Terminal), I would recommend that. If you like oysters, the Oyster Bar beneath Grand Central has a great selection (expensive).

Go up to the roof terrace atop Rockefeller Center (I think it’s the RCA building): it has arguably the best city view there is (better than the view from the Empire State Building, partly because you are looking at the Empire State Building).

Boston restaurant: Durgin Park, in Faneuil Hall, for prime rib of beef.

/sb

[Rabbit01]

Re: Dr. Binswanger’s post 150704 of 9/28/24

Thank you for the recommendations!

*sb

[Rabbit01]

Re: Jose Donis’ post 150703 of 9/28/24

I will be summarizing and recommending some of the activities I have done in Boston. But I also hope to see some recommendations from fellow HBL’ers.

For golfing, I am pretty certain there is this private club south west of the city.

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[Pete Jamison]

Re: Tristan Schuijtvlot’s post 104340 of 9/28/24

I’m not a local but I have an emotional attachment to Nathan’s hot dog stand at Coney Island.  Not fancy but authentic. Allan Gotthelf tipped some of us off re: this one from his list back in the 80’s. About a half dozen of us made it there in his presence at the close of a conference in ’88.

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[StephenHarper]

Re: Harry Binswanger’s post 150704 of 9/28/24

I dined twice at The Russian Tea Room when I was in Manhattan for a concert by Alma Deutscher in December, 2019 at Carnegie Hall. The first night, I had the beef stroganoff and after the concert at Carnegie Hall, the next night, I had the Chicken Kiev. A Facebook site “Old New York City” posted an article about this restaurant recently. I posted a comment in which I mentioned Ayn Rand and I asked if Sergei Rachmaninoff was a customer and I also asked if anyone ever saw them in the restaurant. I wonder if Ayn Rand ever met Rachmaninoff? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid08yBGAcz9drVtwtywommuQEYNSzHKvdvya3SMwMZRshsHdu76YMdC5Xv9qGrMZzTVl&id=100068707481560&mibextid=CDWPTG

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[JoseDonis]

Re: Stephen Harper’s post 150767 of 10/4/24

I posted a comment in which I mentioned Ayn Rand and I asked if Sergei Rachmaninoff was a customer and I also asked if anyone ever saw them in the restaurant. I wonder if Ayn Rand ever met Rachmaninoff?

Possible, but not probable.

Rachmaninoff came to New York City in 1918, eight years before Ayn Rand did, and moved to Berkeley in 1942 due to declining health.  He spent most summers in France and Switzerland until 1939.  

And, boy, did he tour!  He was always on the go.  When in NYC, some sources say that he preferred to have his favorite ice cream sodas at a local corner store rather than borscht at some fancy restaurant.

Nonetheless, it is possible that Rand and Rachmaninoff may have been in the same eatery in the 16-year time span when both lived in NYC.

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[Rabbit01]

Re: Harry Binswanger’s post 150704 of 9/28/24

The street you mentioned has the Murray Hill house, but I couldn’t find any mention of the Bromley.

Google

Google does mention a Bromley somewhere north.

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