We've been in New York for almost a week now... The weather has been very bad for the first three days. Here is the best shot I got from the Statue of Liberty during this period of time.
We walked a lot this week, believe me Manhattan is way bigger than it looks like. The weather got much better this weekend, so we walked even more... We went on the ferry to Staten Island at sunset time (or should I say right after sunset).
Here is a picture of Gustav on the top of the Rock (the Rockefeller center), which gives a good view on the Empire State building, and the financial district in the background.
We also went to Central Park yesterday with Vincent, before going to see the last movie of Clint Eastwood "Gran Torino" on Times Square - we highly recommend this movie.
Some more pictures of Central Park...
I obviously had to go to the Blue Note once, so we did that too, for the 70th birthday of McCoy (check
that out...). For these who dont know, most of the jazz you can hear at my place have been recorded live in this bar :-).
Hum.... During the rainy days, we went to the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA). Here are some of our favorite masterpieces.
We also saw Little Italy, ChinaTown, Greenwich village,Times Square, the 5th avenue (and the apple store). We are waiting for your suggestions for this week. On the next rainy day, we'll try to visit the Met, and eventually do the christmas shopping.
We walked a lot this week, believe me Manhattan is way bigger than it looks like. The weather got much better this weekend, so we walked even more... We went on the ferry to Staten Island at sunset time (or should I say right after sunset).
Here is a picture of Gustav on the top of the Rock (the Rockefeller center), which gives a good view on the Empire State building, and the financial district in the background.
We also went to Central Park yesterday with Vincent, before going to see the last movie of Clint Eastwood "Gran Torino" on Times Square - we highly recommend this movie.
Some more pictures of Central Park...
I obviously had to go to the Blue Note once, so we did that too, for the 70th birthday of McCoy (check that out...). For these who dont know, most of the jazz you can hear at my place have been recorded live in this bar :-).
Hum.... During the rainy days, we went to the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA). Here are some of our favorite masterpieces.
We also saw Little Italy, ChinaTown, Greenwich village,Times Square, the 5th avenue (and the apple store). We are waiting for your suggestions for this week. On the next rainy day, we'll try to visit the Met, and eventually do the christmas shopping.
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Hey, cool d'avoir des nouvelles !
Pour NYC, au moins, je connais ;-)
Je vous conseille d'aller faire un tour à l'ONU, c'est pas tous les jours que l'on peut y aller : on peut visiter les salles de conseils, etc. (et il y a une machine à café au sous sol ! :) )
Sinon, vous pouvez vous balader sur le pont de Brooklyn, au dessus des bagnoles, c'est sympa et ça donne une belle vue du quartier financier.
Et vous pouvez monter sur le toit (enfin presque) de l'Empire State aussi :)
Ahhh! Flamenco, NY style, blue. The only non-obvious thing to see I can think of is the Holography museum. Don't know if it even exists any longer, but it was very hot some 25 years ago ... Have a nice day!
Ahah i took exactly the same picture in toy's R us in time square... The statue must have been there for quite a long time...
Oh and i almost forgot to tell you, you should check out the hard rock café, and if you're feeling handsome there's some playboy building on the way from time square to central park you can try to infiltrate it but i doubt you will succeed ;)
pffff... Dont doubt too much bro.
And we already went on the Brooklyn bridge, although we still have to see the Brooklyn heights. The UN nations building is also in queue for the visits (thx Pouic).
Greg, are you talking about the Hard Rock Cafe on Times Square? I thought it was only a shop.
Oh, and what do you think of the pieces of Art (with a capital A...).
Yeah I highly recommend a visit of Brooklyn!
Harlem and a Gospel Mass can be fun too.
Oh and btw, we definitely have to celebrate Raph phd when you come back (yes, he did it!)
Oh pierre it's a lot more than just a shop... :) Here's some general knowledge you should have ...
"
It started with an Eric Clapton guitar (a Fender Lead II, for the gearheads in the audience). The beginning of something that nobody even knew was beginning.
It was just a goof. A laugh. A joke among friends.
Back in the seventies, Clapton - the original guitar god, founder of Cream and Derek & the Dominoes, creator of the immortal "Layla" - liked to eat at this quirky American diner in London called the Hard Rock Cafe. The place was this funky old building that used to be a Rolls Royce dealership, and it was run by a couple of young Americans who liked to keep it loose. Founded by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, two enterprising and music-loving Americans, Hard Rock Cafe was an instant classic. You could be yourself at the Hard Rock. It was good food and a good time.
So Clapton got to be friends with the proprietors and asked them to save him a regular table, put up a brass plaque or something. And the young proprietors said, “Why don't we put up your guitar?” They all had a chuckle, and he handed over a guitar, and they slapped it on the wall.
No one thought much more about it. Until a week later, when another guitar arrived (a Gibson Les Paul, by the way). With it was a note from Pete Townshend of The Who which read: "Mine's as good as his. Love, Pete."
The young proprietors put it on the wall. After that, the guitars never stopped coming. Today there are more than 70,000 guitars, drums, pianos, harmonicas, microphones, shirts, pants, scarves, shoes, handwritten lyrics, cars, bikes, a bus and assorted rock memorabilia - by far, the largest, most valuable such collection in the world - on the walls of over 138 Hard Rock Cafes, Hotels and Casinos in 42 countries around the world.
But it all started with the one. "
PS : loved the art,but from this point of view i think my trash can is full of Art ...
I mean... I know that Hard Rock Cafe is a bar! Just that the one on Times Square looks more like a store delivering propaganda for the other Hard Rock Cafes than an actual bar. And the original one is in London if I understand properly...
I will go and have a look though... Whenever it starts snowing.
I obviously meant "whenever it stops showing..."
snowing...
Rough night ?
Have you taken any photos of the Christmas decorationa in NY yet?
UN... done!
It was quite easy to find my way, for some reason, everything is written in english and french!
I have not seen anything in Swedish though ahahah.
Gustav and I realized yesterday, talking with the financial people in NYC, that the petrol cost had totally dropped off... We thought it was still above 150$ per barrel!
It means we had a really really good trip.
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Je suis un peu decu, personne n'a remarqué qu'une photo était a l'envers... Ou sont les lecteurs attentifs??
effectivement, maintenant que tu le dis, bel effet sur Central Park...
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