NYC from a urban perspective...
What the hell is with Zagat's survey? 70% of the restaurants we walked by in Little Italy, SoHo, and plenty of the under midtown areas, you could not escape a Zagat's review clippings next to ever posted menu outside a restaurant. As far as I could tell it said "EAT HERE FRIGHTENED OUT-OF-TOWNERS." Thats not the way to have a goo time on vacation, and its not the way to get me into your shop. Its surprising though, I wonder who is these people that treat that book like its the freaking bible.
I like older cities though, unlike newer cities, you see big name shops and restaurants and even chain stores you recognize, in buildings that they do not belong in and it looks awesome for that. An Applebee's in a 5 flat, barely 600 ft wide but 4 stories high, thats cool. Times square is small chunk of the Las Vegas strip, cool. The various neighborhoods all felt like areas of Chicago, just bigger. In fact the whole town, just felt a lot like Chicago, but bigger, except our tallest building is taller. :P
The only time I ever thought, "...only in New York" was when we visited 3-4 art galleries where we saw the largest collection of Tiffany lamp and pieces in the world. There is only about 10 Tiffany dealers in the nation, they all know each other, and they all have showrooms or collections in New York, I saw 5-6 different styles of Tiffany then I ever knew existed. Sotheby's and Christi's often have auctions of these lamps because they are simply amazing.
Tiffanies are incredible works of art and I've just been awestruck by them. But the most surreal thing I can think of though is that people own these things AND are in museums, hell I kept having scenes from Indiana Jones pop in my head where Indy beats up some guy for a artifact yelling "That belongs in a museum!" And then I saw this... that piece is modest in market value, but very nice piece of large turtleback glass and glass beads all around, there is a nob missing on the base though. This lists in on my desk. I own something that could be in a museum. Wow, I just can't get over it.
Lastly though, the 6-8 year old girls in Uggs and big sunglasses made me realize something, these coasties just weren't raised to know the difference between right and wrong, they cant help it. I won't look at them with irritation and disapproval.... now its more like...oh well...
I'll post more probably.
I like older cities though, unlike newer cities, you see big name shops and restaurants and even chain stores you recognize, in buildings that they do not belong in and it looks awesome for that. An Applebee's in a 5 flat, barely 600 ft wide but 4 stories high, thats cool. Times square is small chunk of the Las Vegas strip, cool. The various neighborhoods all felt like areas of Chicago, just bigger. In fact the whole town, just felt a lot like Chicago, but bigger, except our tallest building is taller. :P
The only time I ever thought, "...only in New York" was when we visited 3-4 art galleries where we saw the largest collection of Tiffany lamp and pieces in the world. There is only about 10 Tiffany dealers in the nation, they all know each other, and they all have showrooms or collections in New York, I saw 5-6 different styles of Tiffany then I ever knew existed. Sotheby's and Christi's often have auctions of these lamps because they are simply amazing.
Tiffanies are incredible works of art and I've just been awestruck by them. But the most surreal thing I can think of though is that people own these things AND are in museums, hell I kept having scenes from Indiana Jones pop in my head where Indy beats up some guy for a artifact yelling "That belongs in a museum!" And then I saw this... that piece is modest in market value, but very nice piece of large turtleback glass and glass beads all around, there is a nob missing on the base though. This lists in on my desk. I own something that could be in a museum. Wow, I just can't get over it.
Lastly though, the 6-8 year old girls in Uggs and big sunglasses made me realize something, these coasties just weren't raised to know the difference between right and wrong, they cant help it. I won't look at them with irritation and disapproval.... now its more like...oh well...
I'll post more probably.
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