I love Boston, where I live, but NYC on a good day is beyond words.

Here is one very good day in New York, with my wife.

Sunday:

• Amtrak to New York.

• Library Hotel. Friendly, guest-centric, non-obsequious, relatively mid-priced, well-placed hotel. (I did much better on price by going to the hotel’s site.)

• Walk 30 blocks up 5th Ave., 10 of them in Central Park

• Frick Collection. Such an intensity of awesomeness. God bless the robber barons!

• Dinner at Candle Cafe: hearty vegan food

• Mediocre movie.(Pacific Rim. Yes, I know.)

• Back to the hotel for a drink outside.

And, what the heck, here’s Monday:

• I go to meetings with a couple of sets of incredibly smart, innovative folks, including the New York Public Library Labs.

• My wife pokes around NYPL and goes to MOMA.

• Meet in Bryant Park. Melting pot with flowers and books.

• Meh but filling lunch at SoomSoom.

• Walk 40 blocks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Go through the Greek and Roman Antiquities and the Dutch gallery. Minds blown. Hearts melted.

• Amtrak home.

It does not get better than this. I am very lucky.

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