Info About Jay’s Home on Bedford

Welcome to my beloved home! Please make yourself at home, and please take care of it like your own home. 🙂

Keys

You’ll find two keys: one for the building (the jagged one) and the other for the apartment’s deadbolt (the smoother one).

Don’t lock the doorknob as there’s no key for it. Always lock the deadbolt when you exit the apartment.

Subway

• 27-second walk to the L train at Bedford, which will take you to Manhattan in less than 5 minutes
• 3 min walk to Whole Foods on Bedford Ave
• 5 min walk to the waterfront and Williamsburg pier + boardwalk
• 7 min walk to McCarren Park and McCarren Park Running Track
• Citibike is one block away on N 6th and Bedford, or N 7th and Driggs.
• For a scenic route, bike ride or Uber across the Williamsburg Bridge to the Lower East Side.

Neighborhood

• My favorite coffee shop is Partners
• Bodega: Sunac Natural Deli, 150 N 7th Street. Mr. Lee. Tell him “the green kombucha guy” sent you and you’ll get special treatment
• Waterfront: North 5th Street Pier and Park🔗
• Domino Park
• McCarren Park

Favorite restaurants in the neighborhood

• The Bedford
• Allswell
• Terasa North Ninth
• Santa Fe BK
• Surf Bar

Favorite bars in the neighborhood

• St. Mazie
• Hotel Del Mano

Some spectacular rooftop bars

• William Vale
• The Williamsburg Hotel
• Wythe Hotel

Amenities

Bedroom

Queen-sized bed with linen bedding. Dark curtains and windows with thick glass for warmth and quiet. Two three-seat sofas in the living room (also good for sleeping one person each).

Kitchen

Full kitchen with gas stove, oven, toaster oven, and Vitamix blender.

Wifi

Superfast gigabit wifi. The wifi network is The Rainforest. The password is: thereisanothersky

... which is the first line of an Emily Dickinson poem🔗

It should be fast and good to go.

Sound System

High-fidelity Q Acoustics sound system with speakers in the living room and the bedroom. Once you’re on the wifi network, you can connect to them via Airplay. Speaker system is called Ghost Town.

To play music:

1. Connect to The Rainforest wifi
2. Start music on your phone
3. On your iPhone, select audio output “Ghost Town”

Projector

There’s a movie projector on top of the bookcase. Projector should turn on automatically if you hit Menu on the Apple TV remote. If for some reason projector doesn’t turn on, you can stand on the couch and push the power button on the projector. Be very gentle so as not to move the projection angle of the projector.

Remember to turn off the projector when done.

Apple TV

Projector is connected to Apple TV, which has all the streaming services (Netflix, Max, Amazon Prime, Paramount Plus, and Hulu). Apple TV network is called Foreign Correspondents Club.

There’s an Apple TV remote. To play movie audio through the fancy speakers, long-press the top right button on the remote and change audio output to “Ghost Town.” (Due to a design flaw in that generation of Apple TV, there’s no way to change the default audio output to play over Airplay, so you may have to change it yourself.)

Bedroom TV

There’s a 65-inch 4K Ultra HDTV in the bedroom. Network is called Camera Obscura if you want to Airplay to it.

By the bed there’s a Roku TV remote for the TV.

Workstation

Large work desk in the bedroom with 4k monitor, vertical mouse, ring light, and webcam. You can connect to all at once by plugging into the dock via USBC.

Note that Ghost Town speakers play in the bedroom also.

Theragun

There’s a Theragun by the bed.

Piano

Feel free to play the piano, but please be super careful, and close and cover it, because it costs like $20k or something and it’s not mine.

Cleaning and Check-Out

Please leave the place super clean. Thanksss!!