#stogo

Pretty much my favorite thing about New York City, Stogo Gourmet Dairy-Free Ice Cream in the East Village, is shutting forever as of Sunday. Goddamn Hurricane Sandy, ruining everything in my life. (Actually, I'm in Colorado where the weather is always perfect, so Sandy didn't ruin anything in my life. UNTIL NOW.)

"The business had been battling high rent all year. Eight days without income during the post-hurricane blackout, combined with the upcoming wintertime slowdown in sales, led Stogo's owners to make the call to close." 

Stogo is the best vegan ice cream parlor I ever experienced. If you live near New York, get to the store this weekend and bid them farewell. If not, wish on a Tofurkey that the owners will decide to reopen somewhere. What is there to dream of anymore if not a creamy scoop from Stogo? Nothing. Nothing at all. I'm literally crying into an apple pie as I type. It's messy. Go try to have a good day.

[via DNA Info]

Get off at Union Square Station facing downtown/Wholefoods  supermarket. See the men playing chess there - ask if anyone knows  "moustache" or look for an African American guy with a moustache and play him a  game of chess for $2, lose smiling. Then walk left toward the  intersection then right onto Broadway. Walk about 4 blocks down to  Grace Church on your left. Turn left on East 10th st there and walk to  the corner of 2nd Ave - get a little ginger ice-cream from STOGO. Then cross the street and peak in the courtyard behind the old  chuch/building and cross the street again to a place on the corner of  east 11th and 2nd called Black Hound - go to the juice place next door  Liquiteria - and get something deliciously healthy!!! mmm pretty people in there  too! - next walk back toward east 10th and turn left - on the corner  of east 10th and 1st ave is an italian place called Tarallucci. Go in  and line up and order a panini - whatever one you like, to have there  with a small glass of wine or sparkling water ( between friends, the best panini -  is the smoked salmon) eat and read the NewYorker - shouts and murmurs.  Use the bathroom at Tarallucci - its big and has a good mirror. Next,  leave and walk down 1st Ave to the corner of east 9th street. See the  deli? that was my supermarket dash. turn left down East 9th til you  come to my apartment block (lime faded green) 413 East 9th street - wooden flower boxes are still probably in the airconditioner grate on the  right hand window. that was my apartment. look at the tree in front -  on the other side is where a huge branch broke one night from the  heavy snow, the winter I owned hardly any winter clothes and had a  broken heart and constant wet socks.  Walk down the street away from where you have come. Walk on the left  hand side of the street until you see a shop with kids clothes. and  little cards and pieces etc. go in the shop and ask if they sell  knitted world globes, they should have one - if they do can you buy it  for your unborn future child (all funds go to charity). It'll squish down small and it weighs nothing... I just love those globes - buy it for someone's baby... next walk into Thomkins square park feeling great... walk all over the park and think about Patti Smith.  next, walk to the south end of the park and turn right up St Marks  Place - stay on your right hand side... til you get to a little green  and white place called Yaffa's. (open 24 hrs) - walk down the stairs  and sit in a back booth and listen to more music. Have a tofu salad or  a beer here. Relax among the weirdos. Between Ave A and 1st Ave if  you want to come in the middle of the night.... next go a block over  to the corner of east 7th and 1st Ave - stay on the left hand side and  walk toward Ave A... see a place called LUKES LOBSTER ROLLS...? go in  and get a tiny little lobster roll. (trust me) Please eat it!  Next its time to look at books and vintage clothes. Cross 1st Ave, to  the corner of 7th Ave, walk up 7th toward 2nd, look on your right  strightaway - there is a shop called TOKIO 7 - best vintage clothes  shop in NY. look closely, spend wisely, or better - save your money for books.

If you feel like a coffee look directly across the road at a tiny place called ABRACO - best coffee in manhattan - get a long black, or latter and sit on  a stoop and be awaken!! next walk up east 7th to 3rd Ave turn right  for two blocks til you hit a veer off street called Styvesant - on  the corner is St Marks Bookstore. Buy a book, ask for an extra bookmark.  Next - walk to University Place and east 8th street corner  - turn left until you are standing out the gates of Washington Mews -  a cobbled road with Deutsches Haus... walk down it and think about me  in Europe.. at the end turn left down 5th Avenue... take careful steps  walking on the left hand side of the road, look through the trees and  magnolia flowers/branches in the fall - can you see a statue - that is Cervantes. Where I used to pray and read poetry. stay there for a while, before you duck  back out and turn left to walk through washington square park... play  more chess here of go straight to Chess forum on....  Thompson Street between West 3rd and Bleeker Street. Make sure its  CHESS FORUM... not the other - buy a small bag of wooden pieces, try and have a chess lesson with Raul. Next walk to Bleeker - and  if its night by now go to my fave at La Poisson Rouge, 158  Bleeker Street  or milk and honey  or five leaves in greenpoint (take the L)  or ditmas park (also lived here) (get coffee at cafe madeline)  or somewhere magnificent.

Stogo pottery from Norway.