Maciej is moving to a new place (Part I)

Today we were helping Maciej move to his new apartment - the story is broken into two parts because it will take two days to move.  The current apartment needs him out by 12:00 noon - but they gave him a break and let him stay until 5:00 PM - the new apartment does not allow Maciej to move in until 12:00 noon the next day - so in between... well here is the story...


So the day started after my morning Vinyasa class - I went and caught the 12:49PM train to Penn Station - followed by the E train to 50th street.  The cargo van to rent is from Enterprise Rent a-car, but the store does not open until 15:00, and I arrived at 14:00 to 50th street, since it was lunch time, I decided to get something to eat, specifically a falafel from a place near by, which was highly recommended by Ewa: Azuri Cafe, located on 465 51st Street, between 10th and 9th Aves.

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And I ordered a platter... what a platter - delicious - see for yourself:

a bit pricey - but the taste is very worthy, and one doesn't leave hungry after the platter, but the next time I will order what others proposed, going for the Falafel on pita (not the platter) that should run for about $5.00 instead of $14.00.


After my meal, I still had about 1 hr before heading for the rental van... eventually the time arrived and I headed to the rental agency on 48St on 11th Ave.  When I approached the attendant, I found out that the Enterprise Rent-a-Car office for cargo-vans was not the current location, but rather 48St between 5th & 6th Ave.  It was not too bad of a walk, but that also meant that I would be 30 minutes late to meet with Maciej.


I finally attained the cargo-van, without any issues, and Maciej had disassembled all the furniture (good man!) - so by the time I arrived, all we had to do was to go down 3 flies of stairs and load the van - we were parked very close to the main building's entrance - near a fire-hydrant.  Within 2 hrs, we were totally packed - and ready to go.


Here is the last set of itmes that Maciej and I had to carry to the van - as you can see, he is ready and happy to start our moving adventure.

  Here is a picture of the cargo-van, fully packed.

The last picture of Maciej standing and closing the doors (while taking this picture I lost one of my gloves, which Maciej found on the road - good thing because I was about to give up on the glove, but the night was going to be very cold - so I am very happy Maciej did not give up on finding my lost glove)


Now that we were packed, we had to figure out a plan, we decided that driving the car to LI would put additional cost on gas, and also risk additional chances of avoidable events, so we opted to stay in the city - but it was only 19:30, and we had lots of hours ahead of us prior the arriving of the next day...  So we headed to Lincoln Square's Movie Theaters and purchased the latest show, 23:20, of the movie Avatar.  On our way to purchase the tickets, we took a memorable picture at the entrance of Lincoln Center's Plaza:

  And since the movie would not start until another 3 hours, we headed for the near by Barnes and Noble's Bookstore, where Maciej grabbed a couple books (one of them about Rockefeller).

  And then... we headed to watch the movie...the theater was practically empty - perhaps 15 people... it was nice and quiet...


(to be continued...)