are you going to see them? I could see it if they were playing the A’s.

Burning down Fenway and Yankee Stadium would be nice.

If you’re looking for a cool place around Fenway, a bar called Game On is pretty cool and it’s connected to Fenway behind the outfield. I watched the NBA games from right outside the Garden. The Greatest Bar is a more upscale four-story place (my friend ran into Wes Welker, Donte Stallworth and Brandon Merriweather, among others, there after Game 2) adjacent to the arena. Right across the street is a dive bar called Sully’s, where we watched Game 1. As much as I, too, am fed up with Boston sports, Sully’s is an awesome sports bar and is said to be the longest bar in Boston.

The Faneuil Hall area is more of a “touresty” place in downtown Boston and is certainly worth a look. Lots of cool stores (my friend manages the three-story Abercrombie & Fitch) and restaurants, and you could easily kill a few hours just taking it in. I’ve never been to The Bronx and am unsure of where else I went over the weekend in Boston, but I’m sure I could find out if I knew the area at which you’re looking. Have fun & Go A’s.

Check out Harvard Square, that’s a fun area. Closer to Fenway would be like Newbury Street and the Prudential Center. (And yeah, Faneuill Hall/Quincy Market provide a lot of touristy fun.)

I only know the bars around Northeastern since I’m only 20 still, although I did get into the Sunset on Commonwealth Ave. one time, which I’m told has the largest beer selection in the city. So, you know, if a wide array of beer choices is your thing, there’s that too. There’s a lot of bars and stuff also immediately around Fenway.

(If you’re into baseball history, there’s a statue of Cy Young commemorating where home plate was for the first ever World Series right on the Northeastern campus, too B-). )

We plan to go on a tour of Harlem and we also plan to visit the Tenement Museum. My youngest daughter will earn her master’s degree in African- American History in Dec. so she is super excited to visit Harlem. I am excited to see Yankee Stadium before they move to the new stadium. Now baseball…that’s my kinda history!

http://pacificstandardbrooklyn.com/ Its a West Coast themed bar in Brooklyn.

which I did on an August afternoon last year is to start in SoHo and walk down through Little Italy to Chinatown. These are three very different neighborhoods, but they’re all quite small and close together, so you can see them all without a lot of walking around or cabbing or transit. In SoHo I went to the only North American outpost of Uniqlo which is sort of like IKEA except with cheap, fashionable Japanese clothes instead of cheap, fashionable Swedish furniture. (Actually, I would have been better off starting in Chinatown and walking uptown since I left UNIQLO with some huge shopping bags.) Then I went to the SoHo outpost of the MOMA store which has a small selection of goods from
MUJI but it wasn’t really all that worthwhile. MUJI (which is another fabulous Japanese retailer) now has its own shop in Times Square but it wasn’t open when I was there. From there I wandered into Little Italy where there was a street fair of some kind going on, bought a slice of pizza and an Italian ice from a vendor and watched some dancers. Then I went a few more blocks and was in Chinatown, which is older than our San Francisco and Oakland Chinatowns and has a different feel. The Museum of Chinese in America is really nice; unfortunately they seem to be in the middle of moving this summer, but they are offering walking tours of the neighborhood which would be fun.

Seriously—went to Bawlahmer in May, 07 to see a game at Th’ Yords, and that’s mostly what we did. I’d forgotten, and I grew up thereabouts.

As someone once said: “if the west coast had been settled first, the east would still be wilderness.”

back to manhattan and walk along charles river esplanade back bay in boston.

Who knew?