Every American loves variety. Going for a walk can sometimes get overwhelming – but in a good way –when you are flooded with food and beverage choices of different flavors or sizes or frames. So, in honor of the new soda tax that limits our sugary beverages (and our newly chosen president), we should embrace all of the things that are still encouraged to be served with an overflowing amount of goodness. Long live the land of the brave and the home of the free refills.
Start your walk with the infamous 16 Handles and fill your cup as much as you’d like. If you can successfully leave room for the overabundance of toppings after you have served yourself a few, if not all sixteen flavors of frozen yogurt, please tell me how you did it.
Photo by Daniel S. Burnstein (NYPress.com) One of the many 16 Handles locations is right by Schottenstein Residence Hall on 428 3rd Avenue (between 29th and 30th Street).
Afterwards, head to the New Museum, with its variety of art ranges from cut-up and shredded furniture, canvases painted by antelopes, history of the Bowery, and bathroom-stall inspired scribbles will fill your mind. Each floor in the museum will begin to fill the brim of your art tastes. And, you will surely have too much to say about the art breathing on the walls, hanging from the ceiling and slithering around the corners.
New Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 235 Bowery (between East Houston and Prince Street).
Then walk to the East Village and feast your senses at Physical GraffiTea, where they have one hundred choices of teas. They have the basic, organic teas, but they also have a tea for any and every taste bud. I particularly like the teas that resonate with your mood, like nostalgia — my favorite is “Paris” because it really does smell just like your walking by the Seine River at dusk.
GraffiTea is housed in a cozy space on 96 St Marks Place (between Avenue A & 1st Ave).
Happy choices!