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Eat, Walk, See – A snippet of New York

5/20/2016

Musings about my favourite places in NYC - from restaurants to galleries and city wanderings, including The Quarter, WILD, Keen's Steakhouse, Norma's, Izakaya NoMad, The Highline, MOMA and street art.

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New York, New York: The City of Dreams?

5/19/2016

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The Big Apple. The City of Dreams. The City that never sleeps. Whatever you call it, New York’s reputation is as giant as the buildings which shape its skyline, so I headed there with nothing but great expectations.
Scenes of the city have dominated the TV programmes of my adolescence: Friends, Sex and the City, Gossip Girl; the list is endless. Images of iconic sights like The Empire State Building and Grand Central Station were ingrained in my mind, and I was excited to see them in real life. Undeniably they were impressive, as is most of the architecture of the city: The Flatiron building, The Chrysler Building, the new Freedom Tower. As standalone buildings I appreciated their magnificence, but rammed in amongst other brick and mortar giants, tens of storeys high? It made me feel woozy. New York turns you into a tiny ant in a city built for giants, and for me I couldn’t find inspiration in that. Artificial wind tunnels bellowing through the dense city, churning up dust and throwing it into the eyes of its residents didn’t get me leaping for joy. Nor did loss of light caused by looming skyscapers, relentlessly busy roads, motorists that honk at literally any excuse, and acrid smells steaming up through street vents. And don’t even get me started on the waiter that demanded an even bigger tip (and no, that’s not the Yorkshire in me.)

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