SE meetup - Wine & Roses 7pm, May 21st (Thurs)

I'm so disappointed I can't come. I have to be upstate at a planning board hearing re my neighbor who wants to start a tool-rental business on his property. West81, since you know where I live, maybe a raincheck on that pinot?

trinityparent: You're on. Sorry you can't make it.

Have a great time guys! Hope so much I could be there!

Hmm. Maybe I should attend.

have fun everyone! sorry i can't make it, would love to talk downtown properties with everyone. hopefully there will be a "next time"!

I will not be there, other commitments won't allow. ENJOY!

Although I was hoping to meeting my fellow Upper Westsiders, it's looking like it's going to be a late night at the office...Enjoy!

"my neighbor who wants to start a tool-rental business on his property. "

trinity: at least it's not a slaughter house; not yet, anyway. Good luck with that!!

NYCMatt, there's no maybe about it.

Think about it. You could bring your laundry, toss it into nyc10023's multiple W/Ds, quaff a few, and your laundry will be ready for you at the end of an uproarious evening.

What could be more perfect?

oh gee I can't make it after all. I'm going out of town tomorrow and have lots to do 2-nite.

Please somebody post an amusing acct of the gathering after the fact! To all -- have fun, and no fighting!

GG

have fun tonight

enjoy all, report in on Friday pls.

That was fun.

No fair West81st! That's your shortest post ever.
Review it like it was an open house for those of us who live vicariously through you!!
Tina
(Brooklyn broker)

West81st, yes indeedy. Who needs deconstruction? Tina, come next time.

JM and CC, you have seriously disappointed me.

Sorry I missed you guys last night!

Morning guys - that was fun!. What a joy getting up at 5:55 this am. AR - when did you leave?

I just want to apologize for that bizarrely sweet bottle of organic pinot blanc. Otherwise, a lovely evening, and W&R treated us very well.

Tina: No snark attacks allowed here. You were missed.

Great idea, and good meeting all who were there. I look forward to the next occasion. Perfect location, too. Can we try to keep these within five blocks of my apartment? That'd be great.

NWT: where were you? P09: you were missed. LP: where were you? UWSmom: ditto. I was looking forward to meeting my fellow UWSers. And Julia?

I stayed till the bitter end (closing on midnight) - AR, W81 were there. I was a wuss and took a cab a few blocks home as my feet were hurting.

I'm too zonked and grouchy at 6:30. And too much danger of getting past my one-glass limit. Next time, though.

W81 - I wasn't asking for snark, silly. I never thought your open house reports were snarky. (I never thought you were snarky at all, especially when I thought you were a lady.)
But I'll take aboutready's point and let it be like one of those closed door cabinet meetings the results of which you discover only gradually, through policy changes.
Tina
(Brooklyn broker)

Sorry I missed it. Must have been a blast! Next time for certain...

nyc10023....thanks for missing me...I told wifey what I was missing as we cabbed right past it(she seemed disinterested) on the way to an important dinner meeting at LeBernardin. I will make the next one.

cccharley, as the keeper of the cash i felt compelled to stay until the bitter end as well. once spouseofAR showed up, i knew that my safe passage home was guaranteed. this was my third evening event of the week, and I am so spent. I am WAAAY too old for this. I am trying to review an offering plan but I just gave up.

mucho kudos to 10023 for suggesting this lovely event.

my husband told me that there is a bar in London named S'wine.

OMG - near midnight - I really did miss most of the fun! Who was left near the end. I need to be filled in. If I didn't have to take this 3.5 hour bus ride today I would have stayed. Oh yeah - I didn't sleep at all and my eye is twitching!

Great to see everyone -- including Teri K. Rogers from the Times, and the streeteasy crew of Derrick, Alexa and Dawn, who are of course responsible for all this.

tina, you have to come to the next one, I want to introduce you to kimerama.

ali r.
{downtown broker}

Well, as I told my partner - I can go on for hours about real estate, schools, the economy, real estate, schools, the economy ...

cccharley, we don't tell tales (this is to my benefit, of course). Next time stay until the end and you shall see!!!

So great to meet each of you: aboutready, alanhart, dwell, nyc10023, front_porch, yournamehere, west81, and others whose screen names I forget; great time, looking forward to the next gathering!

WELL - seems like everyone had a grand time; so glad! Apparently the police weren't called; no restraining orders issued; not even any dancing on tables??? I don't know if I'm relieved or disappointed.

nyc10023...i wanted to go but i have friends visiting and they said nooo...thanks for your suggestions we're going to brklyn hts.

The police WERE called -- but they heard there were no warm cookies.

I stumbled in on the late side, but everyone I met was truly amazing!!! I hope to see you guys again, and meet others who left early or couldn't make it.

sorry I missed it but I wasn't feeling well all day. Might have just been nerves, you know that "7th grade dance" feeling you never quite get over. (I have delivered speeches to hundreds and presentations to CEOs and government dignitaries but its different when its social)

Sorry to miss folks - very little excuse when you're within 5 blocks, but dear wife is preggers and our toddler is a handful. Next time for sure!

I had a great time. Next time, we'll have to convince some of the bulls to come. For those I spoke to about exchanging contact info, I'm reachable at wishhouse1 at gmail.

jsfitz22, pursuant to part of our discussion, have you ever been to the mountainy/woodsy/lakey parts of Harriman State Park? Not the official lake beaches, but the light-hike-to parts? I think you'd like it.

Bulls in a wine shop?

Sorry AR, I actually did plan on attending but it didn't work out. Next time.

JM, i'll forgive you as long as you show up at the next one. i think you would have had a great time.

alanhart, just the Bear Mtn. part - had a great hike - went a little off trail because we were getting very closely followed by the "aggressive/tamed" deer looking for food from us and stepped on a bee hive that was in the ground - the friend I was with had a purple fleece on and she got stung about a dozen times (I was only stung a few times). I just checked out the park online and didn't realize there was much more to it then just Bear Mtn. - may have to check it out again soon - thanks for the suggestion. Have you been to the trails behind Cold Spring? There are some good hikes there, too.

our daughter did hiking camp at mohonk and the hubby and i took our own hikes there daily. highly recommend it.

wish i could have been there. sounds like fun. hubby neglected to tell me prior to 4pm that he had a summer associate event last night. thought about swinging by w/ the little one at the very beginning to say a quick hello but she was STILL NAPPING at 6:30! Oh, summers in the park! Hope there will be a next time.

So, how many people showed up?

The Times?

ar, a close friend of mine is a third-generation Mohonk guest. It sounds really great, but I've never been. Were you able to switch to all swine and no wine, though?

jsfitz22, I've never been to Cold Spring -- I didn't even figure it's woodsy because (if I'm not mistaken) it has a Metro North stop.

Is this off-topic?

it's no swine and no wine for me for the next month or so. then it's Europe, where i'll indulge to my little heart's content.

just start a recreation outside of NYC thread. QOL issues are relevant to real estate, methinks.

Sorry to be so late chiming in, but had a busy morning at work. It was so lovely to meet everyone last night! I had so much fun and I can't wait until the next meetup!

great to meet all last night and props to organizer! Looking forward to the next meetup, but I have on request. Can it be at a place that has liquor?

The Cold Spring hike is nice, especially if it helps you make room to eat at that little bistro -- Le Bouchon -- afterwards.

ali r.
{downtown broker}

Great to meet you too, JSfitz22 & great to meet everyone else. Thank you 10023 for organizing this. Very interesting people on this board, a good crosscut of Nyers. I also liked W&R, nice, friendly atmosphere. Let's do it again.

Urban - maybe midtown or downtown and we'll make sure they have scotch -many kinds of scotch