5pm Central Park West & 64th. That black spot in the middle of the third floor up (which is actually about 6 floors from the ground) is the window cleaner. No hat, no boots, no scaffold. Just a rope clipped from his waist to either side of the window. The doorman made sure he turned [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Apartment Living #2
Posted in New York on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Falling in lerv all over again
Posted in Eating, New York on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Somewhere between the traffic jam on 6th avenue, lunch at The Modern at MOMA, an afternoon on the Upper West Side starting with blintzes at Barney Greengrass, dinner at Picholine and a set of jivy tunes high above Central Park in the magnificant Dizzy Club Coca Cola, NYC seduced me all over again. Eveything here is happening [...]
Blossom in the jungle
Posted in New York on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK OK this is the last ‘spring in NY’ shot
Organic Gifts
Posted in Eating, New York on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Had dinner last night at Blue Hill, one of the pioneering purveyors of SOL (seasonal organic local) fine dining here. Most of their produce comes from the Rockefeller-gifted Stone Barns farm in the Hudson Valley. Chose it at the last minute, and had to sit at the bar. One of the more comfortable eating-at-the-bar experiences I’ve had. [...]
Grown-up Cordial
Posted in Eating, New York on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Always on the look out for grown-up non-alcoholic drinks…found some great examples today at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Perry Street. Very cool, very calm, very scandie feel. Small plates are the go here. And a fab choice of house-made “sodas”. I had a ginger one and a lemon-thyme one. Passed on the passonfruit-chilli one. Both delicious, both went [...]
NYC Apartment Living
Posted in New York on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to my very generous, very travelling friend Nevada, long lost since our student days in Canada but recently found again, I am staying in his vrai NYC apartment. I have had dinner with him twice in the last month – once in Melbourne and one in Paris, where he kindly made an early arrival from [...]
God Bless America?
Posted in New York, Street Art on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On one of the dreary street corners on my way across from SoHo to Chelsea I came across this fenced-off lot. Two sides of the lot were covered in hand painted tiles. Once, there was a “title” – Tile America – but now some of the tiles have fallen off. I assume it was a [...]
Spring in the Village
Posted in New York on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aint nature wonderful? Just can’t keep Spring from pushing through all the dirt and potholes and concrete.
New York At Last
Posted in New York on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was late by the time I went in search of dinner and the camera flash was running out of juice. Can you see the detail on the balcony of the second floor? Gold figures twisting across the buidling. Bond Street. Designer street. Fab renewal of buildings. Pity about the rest of the landscape – [...]
Lost in Transit
Posted in Airports, Departures, Paris on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The new terminal at CDG. It’s big, it’s full of natural light, it’s got groovy chairs and internet access screens…but it still can’t get a plane off the ground on time!! We’ll call it the Terminal5 Syndrom – the one where you build a groovy new piece of architecture but don’t fix the underlying processes. [...]
