Since we were so focused on the wedding, the stuff that happened beforehand was pretty much a blur, and not very well documented. We have no photos for our three days in New York, and a very cursory journal entry. Once we leave New York the photos pick up but the journal dies completely. So this post will be more made-up than usual.
Our plan was to stay in our SoHo apartment, which we were in the process of selling. As you no doubt recall, we had bought the apartment and spent a year renovating it. By the time it had finished, I had already moved to Hong Kong so I never lived in it apart from our previously blogged Millennium party. So I thought it would be fun/romantic to stay here, which was a stupid thought. The place was basically empty, so it was bound to be uncomfortable, but I also had a crisis at work that evening. This was annoying because I had been flying for the last 27 hours and really wanted to go to sleep, but also because the apartment didn't have a phone and my mobile doesn't work in the US. I tried using payphones, which is a complete joke, and eventually gave up and checked into the Soho Grand hotel, basically because it had a phone.
Our plan was to stay in our SoHo apartment, which we were in the process of selling. As you no doubt recall, we had bought the apartment and spent a year renovating it. By the time it had finished, I had already moved to Hong Kong so I never lived in it apart from our previously blogged Millennium party. So I thought it would be fun/romantic to stay here, which was a stupid thought. The place was basically empty, so it was bound to be uncomfortable, but I also had a crisis at work that evening. This was annoying because I had been flying for the last 27 hours and really wanted to go to sleep, but also because the apartment didn't have a phone and my mobile doesn't work in the US. I tried using payphones, which is a complete joke, and eventually gave up and checked into the Soho Grand hotel, basically because it had a phone.
Soho is one of the few architecturally interesting places in America, and a great place to walk around. However, the Soho Grand is something of a monstrosity, many times taller than the old cast iron buildings that line Soho's cobblestone streets. It's also brick, which is never used in Soho, and completely isolated from the neighboring buildings. The interior is more sympathetic to the neighborhood, but really only the exterior matters in this regard, and it's pretty awful.
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