Crossing to Brooklyn
This morning I went to the lower east side of Manhattan, to the Tenement or Immigration Museum. It is a building placed in Orchard Rd where they show us how immigrants, refugees & migrants used to live once they’d arrived to the city by boat since 1840 forward, till the building was left abandoned […]
A bit of New York in the movies.
I love listening to jazz when I write, it takes me back to my travels, especially to New York City, as you know it’s one of my favourite places in the world. Ella Fitzgerald’s notes guide my fingers on the keypad & take me to a chocolatier in Soho called MarieBelle. Virginia’s been telling […]
Ground Zero & South of Manhattan. NYC.
One day I arrived in NYC on the 11th of September, day our generation will always remember. In the morning I wanted to go to pay my respects to the Ground 0. My travel companion Peter & I took the metro heading south & entered the area called Financial District, place where the famous […]
Christmas in New York
If there is a Christmas city par excellence, that is New York, of course there are a few more, but, what is a lover of the Big Apple going to say? They don’t fall short with the decorations. 5th Avenue shines with lights and Christmas carols. Walking south, leaving Central Park behind, you’ll find the […]
A walk around Greenwich Village and Washington Square Park. New York.
A beautiful morning my friend Virginia picked me up and we went to see the UN, or United Nations. We were looking forward to seeing the headquarters of the world’s biggest international organization created after WWII. The ground floor can be visited without a tour and you can see the General Assembly whist its members […]
From old to trendy in New York City.
In New York they are experts in reconverting spaces that have finished their normal activity or have become too old, into very nice and trendy places. Walking along the Hudson River, near 42nd street, you’ll find an enormous aircraft carrier moored on the docks and retired from its service; it is, since 1982, the Intrepid […]
¿Breakfast in Central Park?
Who hasn’t heard of 5th Avenue?, the beautiful Audrey showed it to us in Breakfast at Tiffanys, another of my favourite classic movies. Mind you the avenue is a bit empty, not like nowadays, as in the city that never sleeps there is activity in its streets anytime of the day. I love getting […]
Chapter one: he adored New York.
“Chapter one: he adored New York City, he idealized it way out of proportion …” This is how the movie Manhattan starts when Woody Allen tries to discover his way to feel this city, as New York has to be felt, merged into it. They say once you get to know it you either hate it […]
