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PiercingMetal Goes To Toy Fair 2011

This past week in NYC was the 108th Annual Toy Fair and as with many events of its scope would be held over at the Jacob Javits Center on Manhattan’s West Side.  You might recall that PiercingMetal.com was on point at this very location for the NY Comic Con back in the last 1/4 of 2010, and if not, we suggest you hit this LINK to enjoy all of our narratives about the event.

Toy Fair 2011 would be no less the daunting effort and while I am still coming to grips with my some of my own coverage, you can see the chapters that are currently online by clicking the Toy Fair logo above.  I attended this incredible event with my comrade in arms Skeleton Pete who was a busy little bee as well.  He even wrote up a few narratives that can be enjoyed over on his own website SkeletonPete.com – Click the image below to be taken to them.  This was an amazing convention and an experience that I will never forget.

Skeleton Pete & The Skeleton Man

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Features, Food and Drink

A Quick Visit To Pho Hoai Bay Ridge

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pho hoai vietnamese restaurant

When your day kind of looks like this outside there is really only one sure fire cure to get you back into proper order and in my opinion that thing is a big bowl of Vietnamese chicken noodle soup. Now, don’t get me wrong here because while there is nothing like good ole Mom’s brand of the stuff, it’s not always something that is immediately at hand. That being said, today I headed over to Pho Hoai to pick up some lunch as I love the place but since I was on my own I brought my treats home and wanted to share the visuals with you to inspire interest.

A Snow Covered Urbania

To my knowledge this is one of the only full on Vietnamese restaurants in Bay Ridge.  We do have quite a few sushi places and Chinese take outs, along with a couple of Thai but so far this is the only Vietnamese place I have been made aware of.  At the restaurant I ordered a simple chicken noodle with vegetables soup.  I am not sure of its exact phrasing on the menu, but they always seem to get it correct when I say it like that.  When you take this home with you, you get to put it all together and that is what led me to blogging it up for our “Dining Adventures” category.  You don’t mind that we were not in the restaurant for this I hope, but if so, too bad.  Next time.
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New York Sights & Scenes

Have A Merry Christmas 2010 New York City :)

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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” la la la la la la laaaaaa! OK so let me get this out of the way right now. I am not going to get into the debate about whether one should say “Merry Christmas” or opt for “Happy Holidays” to avoid insulting or leaving out other cultures. I celebrate Christmas, as does all of my family so I say that. At the end of the day I mean no slight to my friends of other faiths and will gladly raise a glass of whatever is available for their own celebrations.

Santa Says Hello

Celebrating Christmas brings me to the rationale behind this blog posting.  Since I did a Halloween themed post and scared up a lot of spooky images over there I decided to try my hand at one of the other most decorated holidays that I knew of.  So without any further adieu please enjoy the bevy of photos that I will hope bring a little more of the holiday season in you.  I’ll start with the Wall Street “Holiday Tree”.  They call it that to be fair to everyone obviously.  Can’t have people picketing the Stock Exchange now can we.

NYSE Holiday Tree

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New York Sights & Scenes

The End Is Here…….

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Kinda sorta.  I am speaking figuratively of course but wow talk about a “Dead End” (yes that is a cemetery right behind the cast iron fence).

I chanced upon this while doing some visiting in Middle Village Queens. It struck me as something interesting to share with you so here it is……

New York Sights & Scenes

Citigroup Center’s Holiday Trains Display (12/2008)

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These photos are a couple of years old as you can see by the date in the title that I gave to the posting, but they have never been presented to the readers of the PiercingKen blog since it did not yet exist. Since its overall goal is to share some of the adventures in life and photography that I have taken I wanted to post these for all of you to enjoy.

the station at citigroup center, holiday trains display

One of the coolest things that a corporate entity can do is deliver something that makes people smile and engages the spirit of the holidays for free. Such was the case found with the annual model train display that was set up in the lower level of the Citigroup Center for many years. Taking a couple of sentences from its description the massive display is said to feature thirty-one trains circle through the display, which portrays a journey from Weehawken, New Jersey, just outside New York City, to a fictional town in the Hudson River valley, then up to the Catskills and the Adirondacks.” Let’s begin our walking tour of this massive train setup.

the station at citigroup center, holiday trains display

My timing of the visit was not the smartest one as it was only a day after the Christmas holiday and that pretty much meant that EVERY tourist in the city was interested in seeing these same trains in all their glory.

the station at citigroup center, holiday trains display
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