We went to Astoria. First we had drinks at a place called Kinship Coffee. It was so large & unpeopled that I felt like we had been driving for days & had found the cutest place in Jackson, Mississippi. Look! there's all that space they aren't even using! So chill on a sweltering day. We parked where we wanted. Let's move, we all thought. Then we strolled down to the water, which I guess is the East River? But from the other side. For once I didn't see the Manhattan skyline & long to be there right this second.