the bacon brothers

EAST
HARLEM
MORNINGSIDE
HEIGHTS
40 PULSE
SPANISH
HARLEM
MY NEW YORK
new york post
Sunday, March 22, 2009
SPANISH
HARLEM
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CENTRAL
PARK
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YORKVILLE
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EAST
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SUTTON
PLACE
HELL’S
KITCHEN
MIDTOWN
TURTLE
BAY
TUDOR
CITY
FLATIRON DISTRICT
MURRAY
HILL
CHELSEA
LINCOLN
SQUARE
SOHO
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SUTTON
PLACE
STUYVESANT
TOWN
LITTLE
ITALY
MIDTOWN
HELL’S
KITCHEN
EAST VILLAGE
GREENWICH
VILLAGE
LENOX
HILL
GRAMERCY
LOWER
EAST SIDE
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TURTLE
BAY
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TRIBECA
TUDOR
CITY
MURRAY
HILL
CHINATOWN
Gennaro, 665 Amsterdam Ave., at 93rd Street
KEVIN: “I’ve traveled far and wide, but without a doubt it’s one
of the best Italian restaurants I’ve ever been to. I’ve never had a bad
meal there. There are a couple of things I always get, one of which
is so good I started trying to make it at home. It’s this kale salad
with currants and some kind of cheese. It’s warm and amazing.”
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Lorenzo Ciniglio
LOWER
EAST SIDE
TRIBECA
Central Park
KEVIN: “Central Park, to me, is the heart — or maybe the kidneys or the spleen — of the city. I like to think
I know every square inch of it, but every once in awhile
I find something [new]. One of the ways it survives is
through the Central Park Conservancy, and you can
donate by buying a bench or a tree. It’s yours to share
with the rest of the world. I decided to buy a bench for
[my wife] Kyra near our house. It was a surprise. She
loves the park as much as I do, so she burst into tears.”
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CHINATOWN
ARK C
ERY P
ITY
Imagine this: You’re looking for the new Magnolia Bakery and suddenly you’re one degree away
from Kevin Bacon. “If I see people with their
heads in a map, I stop and ask them if they [need
help],” says the actor, an 89th Street resident
who’s lived on the Upper West Side since 1976.
“It’s amazing to see some of the reactions I get.”
Just a few blocks south, in what he calls the more
“fashionable” part of the UWS (the 70s), Kevin’s
older brother Michael also lives a quintessentially local lifestyle, complete with summer visits to
the Boat Basin Café and $20 day-of-show tickets
to the opera. Together, they’ll release their fifth
studio album, “New Year’s Day,” Tuesday. This is
their New York. — SARA LIEBERMAN
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STUYVESANT
TOWN
LITTLE
ITALY
Good Enough To Eat, 483 Amsterdam Ave.,
at 83rd Street
KEVIN: “It’s my neighborhood joint. It’s
home cooking like
mac and cheese, plus
they’ve got killer desserts — the carrot
cake is the best you’ll
ever have.”
MICHAEL: “It’s also
close to our manager’s office, which is
halfway between our
apartments, so we often have breakfast meetings
there. It’s quiet and you can talk.”
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EAST VILLAGE
SOHO
Stogo Vegan
Ice cream, 159
Second Ave.,
at 10th Street
KEVIN: “I don’t eat
things with feet,
but I’m also not
100 percent
vegan either.
This stuff is just
so delicious you
cannot believe
you’re eating
vegan ice cream.
It doesn’t taste
like it’s pretending to be ice
cream; it just
tastes like
something else
that’s hard to
explain. They
have a lot of
amazing flavors.
The best one, in
my opinion, is
the mint chip or
coffee.”
GRAMERCY
BATT
“One likes to go through
life without regrets, and
I think if you make a life
in New York, you would
never say, ‘What if. . .?’ ”
— Michael Bacon
FLATIRON DISTRICT
ITY
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ERY P
BATT
THE BACON
BROTHERS
BB King
CHELSEA
Blues Club,
237 W. 42nd St.,
between Seventh and
Eighth Avenues
MICHAEL: “This is the venue Kevin
and I play most often. We’ve been
there almost twice a year for the
GREENWICH
last five or six years. To walk
VILLIAGE
down 42nd Street and see
our names on the marquee is quite a thrill
for me.”
Fairway, 2127 Broadway, between 74th and 75th streets
Whole Foods, 10 Columbus Circle, at 59th Street
“The one thing we have no issues with in our neighbor2 Kevin:
hood is obtaining good food. Within a 10-block radius, you have
Fairway, Citarella, Zabars and Whole Foods. We shop at Whole Foods.”
MICHAEL: “I call it Whole Paycheck. You don’t like Fairway?”
KEVIN: “I can’t take it.”
MICHAEL: “You’re not supposed to be able to take it. You’re supposed to
go in there and hate it and curse and push because it’s very, very
cheap. It’s just insane. The secret is, you go upstairs [to] check out
where there’s a lot less people. But they have the slowest elevator in
the world. It will only hold three carts and there’s a special way to enter. It’s almost like a puzzle. The first cart has to go in and take a hard
right, and the next one can go straight back. And people know how to
do this! You can’t get up any other way.”
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FINANCIAL
DISTRICT
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NYPost: Victoria Will
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LENOX
HILL
LINCOLN
SQUARE
YORKVILLE
Lorenzo Ciniglio
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EAST
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Rudys
Music, 169 W. 48th
St., between Sixth and
Seventh avenues
Kevin: “Anchored between two big
rival music stores — Sam Ash and
Manny’s Music — Rudys is high end,
almost like a guitar museum.When
my son was little, I’d take him to 48th
Street and they’d give him a guitar
and an amp, and were just extremely open to talking to
him about music and
guitars.”
Caitlin Thorne
Metropolitan Opera
MICHAEL: “My son was a
member of the Metropolitan children’s chorus when
he was a little kid. He would
walk over there by himself
and we’d pick him up at the
stage door at night, so I have
a soft spot in my heart for
the whole organization. On
opera nights they have a
certain amount of tickets
— particularly if it snows —
that go unused. So [his wife]
Betsy will go and see if she
can get some. If she can, we
go to the opera for like $20.”
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