Gotta mention the food…

Fluffy’s Cafe and Bakery
One 7th Avenue between 54th and 55th
Good coffee and breakfast sandwich croissants. Plus, their bakery items looked fabulous.

Times Square Hot Bagels
on 44th near Broadway, between Ollie’s and Carmine’s
Great coffee and bagels. If carbs were not an issue, it would be fun to go back and try a different variety of cream cheese and bagel every day.

Street Food – the beef and chicken over rice with dressing and hot sauce was absolutely fabulous from the vendor outside the Hilton.

Next time I want to try these places:
Cupcake Cafe
Two Little Red Hens
Katz’s Deli on Houston
Shake Shack
Island Burgers at 52nd Street and 9th
Pommes Frites at 7th St. and 2nd Ave for Belgian frites with frites sauce
Ellen’s Stardust Diner, 1650 Broadway
Brooklyn Diner, on 57th west of Carnegie Hall – according to the corporate trainer on the flight into NY, they have great cheeseburgers, bagels, and Chinese Chicken Salad.
Dim Sum Go Go
and more recommendations at Chowhound.com

Next time, before I go, review these suggestions:
Photographing Urban Landscapes
Take Better Photos: Buildings and architecture
more ideas

Also, for the next C’s, I should really get over my fear of asking people to come to my session. I was a little nervous beforehand, but it’s also a bit of a letdown when it’s over and the talking is done. For a Friday, lunch session (12:30-1:45) we had a good turnout. I’d guess that there were 30-40 people in the audience.

My “talk” was on Digital Technologies and WAC/WID. According to TM, my group didn’t do too bad a job. For the record, I read a talk meant to be read aloud, presented a slide show, and had a bibliography handout. (BTW, if you take a peek at the slides, yes, I did intend for that one slide to be duplicated. I made a little of that “new” business in 2006. Also, yes, I did intend for that different color background on the slide re: what’s new. I thought it would be a visual cue to re-interest anyone whose mind had wandered. I did hear a gasp of what sounded like shock from someone in the audience when I flipped to that slide, so it did have some affect. I used iStockphoto for the images. As I was searching that site, I did consider other images for that slide, such as books piled up, but that wouldn’t have had that “new” quality I was looking for, and the one I used is still not perfect, but oh well.) It was a good first talk at C’s experience for me.

The others on my panel did a great job. Amy talked about The Writing Project and writing about place. Faith talked about her research on personal writing and Russell provided some advice for dealing with faculty resistance to WAC.

I didn’t get to see as many people as I would have liked, but due to the costs, I really did have to limit myself to a quick trip.

Photos from the trip: