If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it. Trust me.
December 15, 2013
December 11, 2013
New York Does Kitsch!
Midwesterners love to decorate their lawns during the holidays with giant inflatables. It surprised me to run across them in Manhattan. They looked so vulnerable against the abrasive, jagged edges of concrete and brick around them.
December 10, 2013
Rockefeller Christmas Tree
It's elbow to elbow at Rockefeller Center the week after Thanksgiving. Wish you were here?
December 7, 2013
December 5, 2013
December 4, 2013
December 3, 2013
Stella 34 in Macy's
The new high-end Italian restaurant, Stella 34 Trattoria, is a terrific place to eat and people-watch on Macy's 6th floor. The place is spacious and bright making it an oasis from the tourists and shoppers just steps away.
Lively artwork draws your eye to the busy chefs working in the open kitchen---or the other way around. Scoring a table near the enormous architecturally-beautiful windows lets you see the action on the streets below while you dine. To think the space was formerly used for warehousing!
December 2, 2013
Macy's Christmas Window Display
This is one of the many beautiful Christmas window displays at the 34th Street Macy's Store.
Macy's Thanksgiving Day 8:30 PM
People were still filing into Macy's flagship store on 34th Street a half hour after the doors opened on Thanksgiving Day.
There were several local, national, and international news crews out and about both inside and outside the store.
Turn Yourself Into a Macy's Balloon
This was fun: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade App for your smart phone. You can choose your outfit, take a picture of you or someone you want to make fun of, and create an elf balloon. You can then superimpose the elf balloon over any photo you take! So here is my balloon floating over the East River--that really IS the view outside my apartment.
The Good Wife and Blue Bloods Filming Here This Week
This is happening three blocks down from my apartment building this week.
December 1, 2013
Stumbling Upon Dinosaurs
Yep, just stumbled upon a display of these thousands-year-old fossils of ancient monsters while walking around Midtown Manhattan today--just a typical day in New York City.
They were a display of the famous Bonham's Auction House, and they were actually for sale by a farmer in Montana who owned the land where they were discovered. However fascinating, they didn't sell for the reserve of $7-$9 million, so I guess they'll go back to Montana. Read more here: Fossils of Dueling Dinosaurs Fail to Sell at Auction.
Walking Tour: The Seagram Building
Located at 52nd and Park is the Seagram Building built in 1958. The Frommer's guide book I was using describes it as a building that "straddled the line between the too-American Frank L. Wright and the too-European Le Corbusier."
It continues, "This building is such a success because of its meticulous attention to detail: dark bronze window mullions; a lobby that seamlessly blends interior space with the adjoining plaza; and a sheer facade of amber glass made possible by hiding all the building's 'guts' away from the street."
The open plaza was controversial at first because of the possible loss of tax revenue, but it became so popular that new zoning regulations encouraged similar designs. This one was designed to discourage people sitting, whereas future plazas would welcome people with areas to rest.
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