the show was marvellous, and after I arrived, I was excited to learn that the open hours would be extended because of a projection due to be screened on the exterior of the building at 8pm that evening. So I took my time inside the building, then asked a guard if he could recommend a nearby restaurant for an inexpensive meal before the projection began. He said no, but I could have a pizza delivered on the sidewalk outside the building, & gave me the name of the place that would deliver.
So I ordered a pizza and waited on the sidewalk until it arrived, and then looked for a place to park myself that would have a good view of the projection. Others had the same idea, but there was one bench with an empty space in the middle. My pizza was larger than expected, so I invited my benchmates to share.
While we waited for the projection to start, I got into a great conversation with one of them, a curator based Asia and who had just seen the same show at the Guggenheim. It was a perfect day.
I started visiting NYC back in the 70's, and I've always have wonderful adventures there, although the city's changed greatly since then (it's now more sanitized, homogenized, Disney-fied, 1%-ified).
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