You just can't make this stuff up...
Payed a very pleasant visit to the Neue Galerie a few weeks back. Their Otto Dix exhibit is a.m.a.z.i.n.g. The permanent collection also features some brilliant pieces by Klimt and Schiele. If you're into Austrian and German art/history/culture, this is *the* museum to visit.
Plus the museum space itself, tiny as it is, is architecturally outstanding. Definitely doable in between other plans. You can make your way through two-and-a-half-ish floors of art, and their gift/book stores and then be off to lunch with friends, at say, Cafetasia. Yet *another* Asian Fusion type restaurant, and not the friendliest staff I've ever encountered... but the food is quite tasty and inexpensive. They also serve fresh, unfiltered ginger ale, by Bruce Cost, which is stupid good.
So, say you did go down to Cafetasia and were wandering around the East Village. You might just be as lucky as I was and come across one of Manhattan's wonderful oddities. Check out this dude who loves blowing bubbles near St. Marks Place. These things make me smile:
