[Fredslist] You just never know where Gotham leads

[Corey Bearak]

Wednesday morning I attended an informal Gotham women’s breakfast on Long Island.

When I first read the Nancy Schess post as moderator for Fredslist I thought I missed knowing about a scheduled meeting of LI Women.

Not exactly.

It was an informal get together — no rules, no format — that allowed people to attendees to let their hair down (if they so choose).

I realized that when I RSVP’d.

I was the only attendee of my agenda but there was almost another.

We gathered at an unusual location for Gotham, the Hicksville Diner.  

By the way, we enjoyed excellent service.

One attendee  — despite my attending many meeting of LI and LI Women, some joint with my “home” LI Legal group, shared that the breakfast offered an opportunity to know me better.  A takeaway that this “sharing” offers — look at a few more one on one other smaller 2-4, maybe five person meets where you get to know others in the tribe a bit better.  Sometimes you may think a person knows you but for whatever reason the registration level perhaps fell short of mutuality.  Most likely just one or the other needed to take another step but neither quite realized it.

But even beyond the Gotham angle, but still Gotham remained the only reason I found myself at a diner in Hicksville that morning, a businessman I know through politics and got to know a but better through advising a political figure, sat down at an adjoining booth; we noticed each other and exchange pleasantries while I remained with my Gotham Party.  Next thing I know, he texts me about an event he organized next week featuring appearances by both Nassau and Suffolk County Execs. 
 
After our Gotham gathering finally breaks up, I go over as he is now joined by a guest.  He introduces us. We connect.  And expect this correspondent to add more to this account at a later date.

So another benefit of Gotham, it puts you in the right place even when you expect it not at all.

Thank you Gotham!

Corey B. Bearak, Esq.
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