Top of the World

Flowers at the fountain in Madison Square Park

A stunning spring day in NYC. Eileen and I headed for the Flatiron district to meet up with Andy Schiff, Eileen's dear friend from the year abroad program in Padova, Italy. She had not seen him in 15 years or so and I had not seen him in about 23.

Really nice, nice guy. His brother is Dr. Doom who predicted the financial crisis and the video is kind of amazing.




Pat, Eileen and Andy in Madison Square Park

Andy is also licensed tour guide and gave a quick tour of this historic area. It was great to see him and have lunch al fresco just like in the old Italia days.

Afterwards it was up to the top of the Empire State Building right around the corner from where our dad grew up.


The evening was pre-theatre dinner with our friend Nancy on Restaurant Row.
Eileen and Nancy are old friends and Nancy and I are now good NYC pals thanks to my sis.


Eileen and I then dashed to the Manhattan Theatre Club to see David Hyde Pierce in "Accent on Youth." He really is a fantastic actor and he brought this old chestnut to life wonderfully. He is also a friend of friends of mine and we got to go backstage and hang for a bit in his dressing room while he took off his make-up. What a truly nice man. He was so gracious to Eileen and me. Just a capper to a fine visit. But wait.....


We then ascended the new RED STAIRCASE in Times Square and looked out over all the people and the lights and knew that this brother and sister act was big time lucky and still on top of the world.


grazie dio