For Year 8: 2018/2019 To Do List

Well, that is it. May is pretty much over with, so I can no longer put off publishing my most recent to do list. I have been way to lenient on myself this year but it is so hard to put a finite line where no other contestants are allowed to apply. 

Of course I kid. 

I know accept that there will be numerous places I want to eat at and visit that will come my way after this posting so I am being more concise than ever as I format this year’s to do list. 

Since my blog was created in early March 2011 I usually give myself until April before I had to publish an edited to do list. This is why you don’t see these posts at the beginning of the calendar year. But this year this task got away from me rather fast. However, today I have put an end to all of that. 

Going forward these are the items I will prioritize and you will notice there is a lot more on the food list than the activities side of things, especially under what is New. 

If it still appears on this list and was on my previous list, that means I reevaluated its position and decided it still was worthy of a spot. Any discrepancy between this list and the year before, when there has been no blog reviewing my opinion, means it has gone to the waste-side. Otherwise you will see it listed as Remaining From Prior Year.

2018/2019 To Do List; Food

Remaining From Prior Year
Borough	Restaurant	Location	Reason
Manhattan	Amy Ruth’s	113 West 116th Street	Chicken and waffles
	S’Mac	157 East 33rd Street Bet. Lexington & 3rd Avenues, Murray Hill	Mac’Cheese spot
	Insomnia Cookies	482 Third Avenue at 33rd Street, Murray Hill	Delivers warm delicious cookies to those of us awake until 3am.
	Lafayette	380 Lafayette Street	French cuisine
	Murray’s Cheese	254 Bleecker Street	Cheese Mecca plus breads, meats, and olives
	Beecher’s Hand-Made Cheese	900 Broadway	Variety of cheeses and small sharable plates
	Campbell Apartment	Grand Central Station- 15 Vanderbilt Avenue NYC	Classic cocktails & light fare in the ornate Grand Central offices of a 1920's mogul.
	Rainbow Room	30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor	Iconic; Drinks, or if Brunch begins again
	Clocktower NYC	5 Madison Avenue	Brunch in a club setting with dining rooms and pool table
	Black Seed Bagels	176 1st Avenue	Hand rolled, wood oven baked bagels, creative sandwiches
	Redemption NYC	1003 2nd Avenue	Sleek lounge serving wings and burgers
	Donahue’s Steak House	845 Lexington Avenue	Vintage establishment serving quality steaks
	Delmonico’s	56 Beaver Street	Opened in 1837, premiere steakhouse
	Haven Rooftop	132 West 47th Street	Cabanas in a glassed in rooftop bar serving cocktails and French cuisine bites
	Orwasher’s Bakery	208 East 78th Street #4	Jewish bakery for cookies, doughnuts, breads, sweets
	Alleva Diary	188 Grand Street	Now owned by Tony Danza, store for all Italian goods opened over 100 years
	Stonewall Inn	53 Christopher Street	Historical Landmark for the gay rights movement
Brooklyn	Pizza Moto	338 Hamilton Avenue	Neapolitan style pizza
	Smorgasburg	Well House Drive,Prospect Park	Outdoor food market
	Jay & Lloyd’s Kosher Deli	2718 Avenue U	Traditional foods, Brooklyn institution
Bronx	Jake’s Steak House	6031 Broadway	Usually a wait, steakhouse with a view of Cortlandt Park
	La Salle Bakery	3139 East Tremont Avenue	Bread and pastries
Queens	Sal, Kris, Charlie’s Deli	33-12 23rd Avenue	Old fashioned, oversized Italian subs
	Queens Comfort	40-09 30th Avenue	Modern takes on comfort food like guacamole stuffed onion rings
Outerboroughs	Sally Apizza	237 Wooster Avenue New Haven, CT 06511	A New Haven tradition since 1938
	Coney Island Pizza	40 Hamburg Turnpike Riverdale, NJ 07457	Cooked on a wood burning oven
New
Borough	Restaurant	Location	Reason
Manhattan	Butcher and Banker	481 8th Avenue	Located in a former bank vault from the 1930s, restaurant serves up steak and cocktails
	Boucherie	225 Park Avenue South or 99 7th Avenue South	French cuisine
	Taureau	558 Broome Street	Fondue
	Black Tap	136 West 55th Streeet	Burgers and creatively massive ice-cram shakes
	The Plaza at The Palm Court Restaurant	Fifth Avenue at Central Park South	Classic piece of NYC history
	Bar Primi	325 Bowery Street	Another restaurant by Chef Andrew Carmellini
	Anchor Bar	327 West 57th Street	Buffalo’s home of the hot wing now has a location here
Brooklyn	Paulie Gee’s	60 Greenpoint Avenue	Pizza
	Lombardi’s	32 Spring Street	America’s first pizzeria
	John’s Pizzeria of Bleecker Street	278 Bleecker Street	Historic pizzeria
	Clinton Hall	247 Metropolitan Avenue	Fondue Burger
	Olmstead	659 Vanderbilt Avenue	Brunch- especially bacon, egg, and cheese eggroll
	Fornino Pizza	291 Kent Avenue	Pizza
	The Osprey	60 Furman Street/ 1 Brooklyn Bridge Hotel	Chicken salad sandwich
	Talde	369 7th Avenue	Dumplings and chicken wings
	Bamonte’s	32 Withers Street	Open since the 1950s, known for gigantic raviolis and lasagna with chicken and spinach
	Embers Steakhouse	9519 3rd Avenue	Open since 1985, uses Vinnie’s Butcher Shop right next door
	Hometown Barbeque	454 Van Brunt Street	Pulled pork, ribs
Outerboroughs	Pizzeria La Rosa	12 Russell Avenue, New Rochelle, NY, Parking available on 11 Allard Avenue	New place opened by Frank Pinello of Best Pizza
	Bar (Apizza)	254 Crown Street, New Haven CT	Mashed potato and bacon pie
	Tony Boloney’s	363 Grove Street, Jersey City or 263 1st Avenue, Hoboken, NJ	Home of the Taco Pizza and other creative ones just like it.

2018/2019 To Do List; Activities

Remaining From Prior Year
Borough	Activities	Location	Reason
Manhattan	Grants Tomb	West 122nd Street &b Riverside Drive	General Grant’s National Memorial
	Morris Jumel Mansion	65 Jumel Terrace	Oldest house in borough
	Cathedral of St. John the Divine	1047 Amsterdam Avenue	Fifth largest church in the U.S.
	City Hall Park Monuments	City Hall	Memorials for Jane Addams, Horace Greenly, Crime Victims, Declaration of Independence, Freedom Tree Marker, Joseph Pulitzer, Liberty Flagstaff, LT. Issac Barre, Underground Railway, Provost Prison
	Gracie Mansion	East End Avenue at 88th Street NYC	Mayor’s home
	Belvedere Castle	79th Street, Central Park	Dates to 1919 with exhibit rooms, observation deck
Brooklyn	Coney Island Museum	1208 Surf Avenue	History of area and exhibits
	Lefferts Historic House	452 Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Park	Built in 1783 showcases life of Brooklyn families in the 1820s
	Brooklyn Navy Yard	63 Flushing Avenue	Tour describing WWII effort and other uses for the facility
Bronx	Woodlawn Cemetery	517 East 233rd Street	Rosa Parks, FW Woolworth, Irving Berlin, Elizabeth Lady Stanton, Nellie Bly, Joseph Pulitzer, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney,
Outerboroughs	Lyndhurst Manor	635 S. Broadway Tarrytown, NY 10591	Gothic Revival Mansion
	Ferncliff Cemetery	280 Secor Road, Hartsdale NY 10530	Joan Crawford, Tom Carvel, John Lennon, Jim Henson,
	Old Westbury Gardens	71 Old Westbury Road Westbury, NY 11590	Gold Coast Mansion
	Boldt Castle	1 Heart Island Alexandria Bay, NY 13607	“If you haven’t seen Boldt Castle lately you haven't seen Boldt Caste”
	Jay Heritage Center	210  Boston Road Rye, NY 10580	John Jay Ancestor’s Home
	VanCortlandt Manor	525 South Riverside Avenue Croton On Hudson, NY 10520	Historical Landmark
New
Borough	Activities	Location	Reason
Brooklyn	Wychoff House and Museum	5816 Clarendon Road	Oldest farmhouse in borough
Outerboroughs	President Grover Cleveland Birthplace	207 Bloomfield Avenue Caldwell, NJ	Childhood home of the former President

So this is the plan. Let’s see how it goes.

For Previous To Do Lists:

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https://bit.ly/2rSxZ2j

https://bit.ly/2s0AChR

https://bit.ly/2rT6VyY

https://bit.ly/2rUwUWK

https://bit.ly/2x2WizF

https://bit.ly/2kacVQC