On the way home from DON'T TELL MAMA last night - after attending a farewell party for Michael Edelstein celebrating his relocation to Florida after 33 years in NYC and 18 years at the piano in the piano bar at MAMA'S - they were putting up the barricades to close off part of Broadway and part of Seventh Avenue between 47th St. and 42nd St. in TIMES SQUARE to create a huge pedestrian mall - all traffic will now have to use the other side of the square. The tourists looked bewildered and the locals seemed ecstatic (except for the taxi cab drivers).
So I was at 4 parties yesterday: the annual LOISAIDA FESTIVAL on Avenue C, then salsa (both the sauce & dance) party in Jackson Heights, then Michael's farewell at MAMA'S and finally "Take Back the Streets" in TIMES SQUARE.
What a day - what a night!
