Tri-State NY NJ CT Freeper Holiday Party and Meeting

09/17/02 | alisasny

[alisasny]

Tri-State NY NJ CT Freeper Holiday Party and Meeting

Saturday December 28th, 2002

1:00 pm

Special guest MadIvan from England

Location Tentative but could be Moran's (downtown) in the WTC area

Moran's

This landmark location, built in 1897, was formally an inn and later became St. George's Chapel during the Depression in 1929. St. George's Chapel catered to the local merchants and residents, which were mostly of Syrian Catholic descent. This area came to be known as "Little Syria." In 1979 the church retired, and the Moran family acquired and converted the site and began operating on December 26, 1986.

It also gives us a place to go to reflect on our Freeper BCM, John Moran who perished on 911 and possibly honor his family.

Lunch Menu at Moran's

Map to Moran's

You can find the current ping list on my home page and I will update it with all who show interest.

Please let me know your ideas and suggestions so this can be a wonderful gathering. I will be emailing back and forth with Firebrand planning the party/meeting.

As the date gets closer I promise to ping you all back to this thread.

[Critter]

Can pests come?

[RepubMommy]

Keep me updated on this outing please. Add me to the "potentially coming" list. Depends on whether or not it's a work night and if I can sneak away from my 3 y/o and my 10 month old for a bit.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Would you please add me to the ping list.....I'm not that far away..........it sounds like fun!

[alisasny]

Can you both post a link to this page on the NJ and CT threads....THANKYOU. I will post the link on the NY page.

The current ping list is on my home page.

[alisasny]

You better show up. I havent seen you since the infamous Israeli Day Parade in 2000.

[alisasny]

You are most welcome to attend. The more the merrier!

[Fred Mertz]

If I'm in the NY/NJ area for the holidays, can I come too? I have family in NJ.

[alisasny]

That would be great. I have added you to the list : )

[Focault's Pendulum]

can I come too?

Only if your name tag reads A+Bert.

BTW I would be interested if anyone from South Jersey would like to carpool.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Posted to the NJ Forum.

[jjm2111]

cool, If i'm in the area, I'll be there.

[Critter]

No, we don't like old bald guys... sorry. :p

[alisasny]

When we freeped Hillary at her intentions of running for Senate in Feb 2000, I wrote the after freep report. One unnamed freeper added the name ESCHOIR to the list of people in attendance. Silly me had no clue what the hell was going on and included him on the list of attendees in the post and after action report.....the forum went nuts...I will never forget that.

[dead]

If I'm not in Vermont (we often go there just after Christmas to visit the wife's parents), I will definitely attend.

Moran's is a great choice. I love that place!

[NYCVirago]

If I'm not out of town for the holidays, I definitely plan on attending this. MadIvan is one of my all-time favorite freepers!

[Ed_in_NJ]

burp

[Betteboop]

Is this the meeting you were talking about?? Let's try to make it!!
BB

[grammymoon]

I love Ivan too and would love to meet and be with other freepers. I will most likely be there!

[alisasny]

All who have shown interest ( I think) have been pinged.

Very nice response to this Holiday party and meet.

I have had an inquiry about hotel rooms in NYC under 150 for that night. If anyone has any links to good deals please add them to this thread.

I contacted Moran's and they want to know if we would like a private room. They are open for regular lunch reservations in the main room but I really dont know how many will attend at this point. I can call back and probably work out a prix fix price for lunch if we take the private room but I don't know yet about deposits.

Does everyone like the tentative location?

Is everyone in agreement about the nametags with Freeper names? I would like to order them soon.

Thats all for now. More details to follow.

Thanks Alisasny

[stanz]

Hi.
It all sounds terrific to me. Let me know if you need some help with anything.