If you’ve ever watched Gossip Girl, then you know why The New York Palace is so famous. (If you’ve never watched that show, The Palace is where Serena, the main character, and her family lived while their regular apartment was being renovated. The Palace was featured mostly in the first season of the series.) The […]
#NewYork Series: Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Probably the biggest building or structure I have ever had the opportunity to walk into (and sit inside for 3 hours) is Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Officially called the Cathedral Church of Saint John: The Great Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, it is tied with Liverpool Cathedral for the […]
#NewYork Series: The Cloisters
The Cloisters is a museum in Fort Tryon Park near the very top tip of Manhattan. It is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) and is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Its four-acre lot rests atop a hill overlooking the Hudson River, which you have to climb […]
#NewYork Series: 1 World Trade Center
8.5 years after I first saw the 2 humongous blank spaces where the Twin Towers used to be, I revisited the WTC site and its new memorial & museum. It is still hard for me to wrap my head around the enormity of what are now reflecting pools – I can’t even begin to comprehend […]
#NewYork Series: Tompkins Square Park
Keeping in line with my Washington Square Park post, today, I’ll talk about Tompkins Square Park. (Sorry if I’m already boring you with the topic of parks, but I promise you the photos will be worth it!) One of the lesser-known parks in Manhattan, Tompkins Square Park is, quite literally, a square park at the […]
#NewYork Series: Washington Square Park
As you may discover in this series of posts about my New York experience, I went to… a lot of parks. I am personally not a big fan of crowds, and despite what most people may think when they think of New York, not every single block in Manhattan is jammed with thousands of people. Just […]
