ooh, shiny!

Apr 11, 2011 22:47

I just learned about this one-week learning program (in July) at Yeshivat Hadar, an egalitarian yeshiva in Manhattan. The classes sound really engaging and meaty (click through for descriptions). Here's what they say is a typical day ( Read more... )

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sanpaku April 12 2011, 02:56:42 UTC
The stuff on their website seems to speak for itself. I saw one of their seminars online and it was great. Shai Held is supposed to be incredible, too. I've always managed to park cars in New York, if you have the patience to wait around for a spot.

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cellio April 12 2011, 03:06:42 UTC
One bit of cold hard reality just settled in. I'd been thinking that maybe driving there would be less annoying than flying (given current policies about flying), but my subconscious just spoke up and said: "Yo! Driving in NYC? Are you bloody crazy, you who are afraid of DC and Boston?!" So, um, maybe not, unless I find somebody local who also wants to go and who is willing to do the city driving.

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cellio April 13 2011, 00:54:04 UTC
True. And I realize I was ambiguous: I would not be talking about driving in every day (that's what the subway is for), but rather, if I drove there, parking my car upon arrival and retrieving it upon departure. Somewhere where it would still be there upon departure, I mean. :-)

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mbarr April 12 2011, 04:18:52 UTC
It's really not too bad, especially if you know anyone in NJ, and can take the train in... if you leave the car out there, you don't have to deal w/ parking it.

However, it's not that bad to drive up to the west side, and then find a spot to park... if you have some flexibility.

But it's an amazing program, and i have multiple friends that can talk to the quality.. (some of whom are from the other end of the spectrum - ortho)

And it's in my neighborhood :)

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cellio April 13 2011, 00:57:20 UTC
Yeah, I didn't mean parking on a daily basis but parking somewhere where I could leave it and go in via subway. But I think the plan of driving at all will only happen if I have a driving buddy, and at that point the buddy gets to weigh in on how we commute.

And it's in my neighborhood :)

Take it as given that I would attempt dinner or something with all the folks I know in NYC. :-)

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zevabe April 12 2011, 05:00:03 UTC
I heard both Ethan Tucker and Shai Held at the last LimmudNY. Both are amazing and I'd be happy to listen to either of them a great deal more. I am not however going to a Hadar event.

By July I may or may not still be living here, and should ask my wife before offering crash space, but... I for one would be happy to have you.

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zevabe April 12 2011, 05:00:56 UTC
I should note: train ride in will be approx 1 hr, followed by perhaps 30 minutes on the subway to the Upper West Side.

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cellio April 13 2011, 00:59:49 UTC
Thanks for the tentative offer. Do I correctly understand that the daily commute would be 1:30 each way? (How do you folks do that? :-) ) If so, it sounds like I should stay somewhere closer in if I can and come out for a group dinner or something. (If I go I'd like to take the chance to meet up with friends there too, after all.)

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zevabe April 13 2011, 05:28:14 UTC
I drive in most days to Washington Heights, another Manhattan neighborhood. This would not shorten your commute significantly, as it would be car followed by subway instead of train followed by subway.

If you do come, we (ok, I. My wife doesn't know you) would be happy to meet you in the city or have you out here for dinner.

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more information than you may have wanted tigerbright April 12 2011, 13:39:55 UTC
When we go to NYC, we stay with my parents in Riverdale (where I grew up) and take a bus to the #1 train south (downtown, street numbers get smaller). These days, anywhere along the #1 train is reasonably safe in daylight, but you'll find everything you need between 122nd St and Broadway (Jewish Theological Seminary) and 96th St and Broadway. The barrio is pretty safe and full of great front-stoop music (or so says my high-school memory), so going east can be fun but you are unlikely to have time ( ... )

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Re: more information than you may have wanted cellio April 13 2011, 01:03:29 UTC
Thanks for all the information! (Which I will compare to a map to better understand. :-) ) And thanks especially for the "vision alert" on signage. Street signs and bus signs can be challenging; one advantage of subways is that they tend to be easier to navigate in that regard. (Generalizing from Boston and Toronto.)

And ooh, I completely forgot that there was a zoo in Central Park!

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Re: more information than you may have wanted hatam_soferet April 13 2011, 01:56:38 UTC
If the vision thing means you'd rather have sourcesheets in big print, tell them beforehand, and remind them, and be pushy about it. It'll be good for their souls.

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hatam_soferet April 12 2011, 15:08:30 UTC
*wave*

here via a mutual friend

Yeshivat Hadar is super awesomecakes.

Driving in is possibly not too bad if you come in superearly for minyan and miss the worst of the traffic, but finding parking is a bitch and a half, unless you reserve space with a garage which is kind of pricey but maybe worth it for the time and rage you save.

I expect you might find a summer sublet on the UWS or in its Jewy-neighbourhood cousin Washington Heights, a little further north. Or crash space.

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cellio April 13 2011, 01:08:41 UTC
Hello and welcome! Thanks for commenting. (And making me smile -- "awesomecakes" is new vocabulary for me. :-) )

This Hadar program is for a week (not their longer programs that I don't have enough vacation time to do), so I wasn't thinking about sublet possibilities. Are there places that do by-the-week rentals for less than what a hotel would cost?

On driving, I was thinking in terms of parking the car somewhere upon arrival and ignoring it until it's time to leave, rather than driving in every day (which sounds super-stressful). I assume that places where my car would be intact at the end exist for a suitable fee. (Now does a non-local find them, if not staying at a hotel?)

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hatam_soferet April 13 2011, 01:52:34 UTC
Oh oh right, the week-long thing.

I expect there *are* week-long rentals, but I also expect that the Hadar minor deities lesser faculty are used to hooking week-long people up with crash space, spare rooms, etc. I bet if you asked them how people usually manage, they'd be able to give you some Jolly Good Ideas; and they're a nice bunch.

Fraid I don't know so much about where to leave one's car. The airports come to mind, as do the More Genteel Places To Live like Riverdale or parts of Queens.

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