{"id":1598,"date":"2007-12-13T01:55:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T01:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/what-600-will-b\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T01:55:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T01:55:31","slug":"what-600-will-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/what-600-will-b\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT $600 WILL BUY IN MANHATTAN –OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND [STILL] LOVE NEW YORK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Room2\"<\/a>This is our room at the W Hotel <\/a>on Lexington Avenue across the street from the Waldorf.  It’s a trendy place with dark hallways (trendy), leaning mirrors at the elevators (trendy), a lobby all silver and white and wood, including a huge bowl of silver Christmas Tree balls and another of silver Hershey’s Kisses.  Our room is literally no bigger than this.  And the bathroom… well, look.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is it.  All of it.  We lived in Manhattan for 20 years so I know from New York prices and this post isn’t really about the $600 (!!!!) room.  It’s just that this is ALL you get for $600.  This event is across the street and our hosts put us here.  I’m not ungrateful; in fact, it was lovely of them to place us right there.  I’m just stunned, even after all my years both of New York living and heavy-duty traveling that this is what things cost.  Plain, old, mediocre to not-so-great things like this room.<\/p>\n

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\"Purchases1\"<\/a> THIS is what I bought in ONE DAY of getting ready for the dinner I went to tonight.  Enough makeup<\/a> and hair products and hair styling\/cutting\/coloring<\/a> to (almost) pay for this room.  It will last a very long time but I’m crazed with guilt.  Oh well.  I’m trying not to surrender to all the "I don’t need that" stuff when it’s things I want and actually might need (at least a little bit) and doesn’t cost as much as a laptop or a car.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is where we were – a benefit dinner.  This is Cheap Trick<\/a> performing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/a>.  Everyone dancing in the aisles and me vacillating between loving it and feeling weird at people channeling Beatles<\/a> wonders, but not the Beatles.  Should they?  Was it irreverant to the point of sin?  I don’t know, but it sure was fun.  <\/p>\n

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There’s lots more and I should tell you about it but I’m tired and we have to get up early to get the train home.  I will say that seeing 50 or so cancer survivors up on the stage singing "Good Day Sunshine" was pretty moving.  Goodnight for now.<\/p>\n

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