Friday, April 25, 2008

Since I had already eaten my sandwich at my desk by the time 11:30 rolled around, I decided to take a free tour of the Grand Central neighborhood
with historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.

Well, let me tell you, it may just be the city's best kept secret (though there were well over 50 tourists there). The mustachioed and bow-tied Ferate gave an energetic one man show with a Strand tote slung over his shoulder. He played everyone from Donald Trump to the Queen of England, regaling us with all sorts of deliciously improbable history. I couldn't stay for the whole thing and the tour hadn't even left its meeting point at the Whitney Museum sculpture garden when I had to leave about half an hour later. I kept thinking that my Dad would love it.

1 comment:

Kat said...

Hey...love your stories. This is so well written! Pretty enthusiatic to go on a tour on your lunchbreak, but such is the life of a freelancer...always looking for a story :)