Thursday, February 13, 2020

Arranging a late Spring get together for lunch


The group that met at Karcsma, the Polish restaurant in Williamsburg, in January 2020, is talking about getting together again in the late Spring around the time of the Kentucky Derby,  maybe a little later, but certainly before the Preakness  ---  like last time,  since most of us are retired or semi-retired, mid-week looks like the best bet


We have chatted about trying to meet at Kennedy's Restaurant, which is located on the bay side inside the Breezy Point Cooperative on the Rockaway Penisula, in South Queens  ---  it has good parking and is somewhat convenient for Long Island, Queens and Brooklyn, and it is a great year-round beach spot to have lunch  ---  a second possibility is London Lennie's.  It's on Woodhaven Boulevard, just to the north of St. John's Cemetery at the intersection of  63rd Drive and Woodhaven Blvd.,  also in Queens;  parking is OK, but not great, and there's no beach,  but it's closer to the LIE and Northern Queens and Nassau.


As the plans get finalized, there will be updates


This group is happy to lunch with any and all Newmanites of all vintages,  so think about trying to be there with us, if you'd like.

For those of us that want to channel our inner Kirk Douglas,  maybe we can have a "Seven Days in May"  Preakness Pool.  Kirk made that movie in the mid-60s,  just before anybody heard about his son Michael (who is more of our age)  ---  remember,  Kirk made it well past a hundred, so there's hope for the rest of us.....

4 comments:

  1. This prospective event came up in conversation over my Valentine's Day dinner with Buddy Wisniewski as did my recent call with Jacqueline Hegsted Jansky.....

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  2. I renewed two bygone connections on Thursday, 2/20/20 --- Elizabeth Buckley Shannon and Karen Sorenson.

    Liz is living in Boynton Beach, Florida and she sounded grand, just grand..... Liz also gave me a solid lead on Karen Sorenson, who is helping to run a family vineyard in Victoria, Australia..... Liz actually visited her "Down Under" a little while ago.

    So, I dashed off an E-mail to Karen somewhere on the other side of the planet ---- and she responded with dispatch and a dollop of warm appreciation. Everything seems to have turned out pretty well for Karen and her husband Paul in that neck o' the woods, and she remembers Brooklyn and her BC Newman days quite fondly. She also said that it was OK for me to reach out to everybody with her E-mail contact info: karen@sandhurstridge.com.au.

    So it looks like little by little this blog is getting off the ground at last.

    Jim McCall (aka GM)

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  3. Richie Caputo and I have been batting dates, times and places around for a lunch together in about two weeks..... If anybody else is interested -- get in touch..... Right now, it looks like it might be Muldoons, 3rd Avenue near Grand Central Station, around the corner from St. Agnes Church.
    Jim McCall (GM)

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  4. The early May gathering has been postponed "Sine die" >>> as an obvious and necessary response to the Coronavirus, CODIV-19.....

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