7 more sleeps until I fly out to:
New York City. The Big Apple. The City of Dreams. The City That Never Sleeps. Gotham City. The Centre of the Universe. The Capital of the World. The Empire City. The Five Boroughs. The Modern Gomorrah. New Amsterdam. The Melting Pot. The City So Nice They Named It Twice....
(Thank you Wikipedia)
New York, New York.
My friend, and one of my traveling companions, Marie is already there and has been for the past week and a bit. I've been reading her fabulous blog and I can't wait to get there myself.
New York is one of those iconic places that I just love to immerse myself in. The streets, the parks, the buildings, the people, the accent. Everything just seems so familiar, like you've been there before. And really we've all been there before from the comfort of our lounge chairs....
Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, CSI New York, Big, Sex and the City, When Harry Met Sally, Kramer Vs Kramer, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, Ghostbusters, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle had scenes in NYC and Titanic.....The list, like the heart, literally goes on and on!
The diner in Seinfeld
The Soup Nazi from Seinfeld
Cnr Bedford and Grove Streets - the supposed apartment building in Friends
Carry's Stoop from Sex and the City
Katz Deli - Where Harry Met Sally
New York Public Library - Where Carry nearly married Big in Sex and the City
Battery Park - with The Lady in the background - Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan
Grand Central Station - Crocodile Dundees's famous "That's not a knife, this is a knife"
Spook Central - 55 Central Park West - Ghostbusters
Riverside Park - You've Got Mail
CSI New York - There's no Horatio, but the lots of well known NYC locales
The iconic Empire State Building - on Valentine's Day
Rose arriving in the New York harbour passing The Lady in Titanic
Thank you Celine, that's enough now.
and they said watching ALL that American TV would damage my brain! What it really did was give me a permanently imprinted map in the back of my brain to automatically guide me through the neighbourhoods. That, and a plethora movie lines to be quoted each time you wander through the locale in the movie.
"I'll have what she's having."
Thank you Sesame Street and the Children's Television Network.
So with a life long televised education pertaining to all things New York City, it is not surprising that it is one of my favourite places in the world to visit.
7 more sleeps.
New York is one of those iconic places that I just love to immerse myself in. The streets, the parks, the buildings, the people, the accent. Everything just seems so familiar, like you've been there before. And really we've all been there before from the comfort of our lounge chairs....
Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, CSI New York, Big, Sex and the City, When Harry Met Sally, Kramer Vs Kramer, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, Ghostbusters, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle had scenes in NYC and Titanic.....The list, like the heart, literally goes on and on!
Kramer Vs Kramer in Central Park
and they said watching ALL that American TV would damage my brain! What it really did was give me a permanently imprinted map in the back of my brain to automatically guide me through the neighbourhoods. That, and a plethora movie lines to be quoted each time you wander through the locale in the movie.
"I'll have what she's having."
So with a life long televised education pertaining to all things New York City, it is not surprising that it is one of my favourite places in the world to visit.
7 more sleeps.
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