Carrie: "Welcome to the age of un-innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's and no one has affairs to remember."
This one sentence is the essence of New York.. at least the Big Apple I've known..
I guess for the first time I've visited NYC in 1997. It absorbed me completely. You look around you and you can see almost everything: some people running around Financial District wearing famous sneakers ( yep, every American got one, I never managed to buy), others wearing suits from last Ralph Lauren collection paired with Manolos.. extremely wealthy people driving thir limos, well- known yellow cabs, hoots all around.. SOHO, TriBeCa, Upper East Side, Central Park.. Robert De Niro, SJP, Anna Wintour, Annie Leibovitz, Woody Allen..
Later on I got to know this gorgeous city from Carrie's point of view.. One summer I bought all SATC DVDs and just kept watching. It is addictive... and it used to be very fashionable. Probably by that time I fell in love with fabulous Michael Kors and Ralph Lauren..
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| CARRE & MR BIG |
Museums. There is no place like MoMa (Museum of Modern Art. Must see: Andy Warhol's or Mark Rothko's masterpieces.
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| MoMA 2010 |
The Guggenheim- a great home for contemporary, early modern art, renowned Impressionists and Post- Impressionists.
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| The Guggenheim. 2010 |
Most famous- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Louvre- on the other side of the Globe. It's big enough to spend a whole day inside ( plus it's always pretty crowded). But it's worth it !
http://www.metmuseum.org/
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| Inside the Met. 2011 |
What I always liked to do, when I had a free afternoon in the City... I walked to Bryant Park and The Public Library. It's magical inside. Not only because this place holds all the greatest love stories... I turned those visits into a nasty habit. First I used to buy - chicken and avocado sandwich- @ Pret A Manger across the street ( plus a little fruit salad), I sat down like every other American with my head up- staring at the sky and trying to get some tan. Most of men get their shirts off :-) No shame in it. Nothing you do in New York City could make you feel mortified... 20 minutes later... you are ready to storm the Library ; -)
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| Bryant Park |
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| The Public Library inside. 2010 |
Speaking about the green zones... There is one place left to go. Central Park. Opened in 1857, on 341 ha. It's situated in the middle of the Manhattan island and it surely looks spectacular! See yourself !
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| Manhattan, the view from The Empire State Building. 2010 |
I guess that's all I could tell tonight.. Favorite places to be- on Sunday !
