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New York City Slideshow
Travel Blogs from New York City, United States
Midtown Madness
This is a top pick! So I arrived gloomy, dark and freezing cold. Gotham City. Even with the intractable weather there was a certain magic energy, like something mysterious and brooding in the night. I braved it and headed for my hostel which was surprisingly simple ...
Doing this to support my kids....
This is a top pick! ... all the same. For some reason, it just seemed funny now. The two men, both Australians shared the room. They are in New York together. For whatever reason - maybe because they are on holiday, maybe just because (they are Australians after all) - ...
Take a Biatch to Queens Muther ............
This is a top pick! As we walked along 23rd Street away from the boat the clock passed 3am. New York Streets are still as busy as the day time with the added bonus that nobody seems to be able to walk in a straight line. The colour of the language has also become slightly ...
The End
This is a top pick! Well, I almost missed my plane because I confused the time arriving in New York with the time leaving Zurich. I ended up with just under an hour to make my flight. Luckily, I was right next to the airport and it wasn't very busy this morning, so I made ...
Thanks for all the support, and a final farewell
This is a top pick! ... hard job, but also unbelievably worthwhile. From DC, I made my way to by bus to New York and spent my last night in the United States in a swank manhattan restaurant with Lauren Kopple and John. Honestly trendy New York restaurants are probably as ...
Avoiding travel scams
This is a top pick! ... of travel scams just published this week by the Sun Herald: If there is a sucker born every day, there is probably also a new travel scam. Thousands of travellers every year are parted from their luggage or money and many of these incidents can be ...
Harlem, Central Park, Guggenhiem & Retail Therapy
This is a top pick! ... was to explore Central Park. We had kept aside a whole day for this because we knew how huge the park would be. In a huge city like New York, where the pace of life is hectic and crazy, Central Park is a wonderful oasis of calm. I believe it was very ...
If you are into coffee, roast at home and save
This is a top pick! ... downturn in sales for independents, in particular, and coffee chains in general have been reported here in the United States, although temporary fluctuations have been recorded, said Hetzel, and European and Asian coffee retailers are experiencing ...
So good they named it twice
This is a top pick! ... hanging out at Carolines and Becca's watching films and having a laugh (at my expense......again) And this is my last entry from New York. Shit, I would have never thought I'd ever go to New York and now it's been and gone. Overall, I thought I ...
One door closes...
This is a top pick! ... and gone... it's only appropriate that we end this travelogue in the same country as it began. we have arrived safely in new york, and while we definitely have some mixed feelings about it, we are certainly happy to be reunited with family and ...
More words of the year 2008
This is a top pick! ... a last-resort measure to put the chronically youth-obsessed out of their misery ... Think of it as mercy lifting." -Armand Limnander, New York Times[17] Webster's New World Dictionary's final Word of the Year selection will be announced via streaming ...
Notorious hotel rooms
This is a top pick! ... in December, 1980. The sex scandal, with allegations of rape and hush money, brought down Bakker's ministry empire. 6. Hotel Chelsea, New York Sex Pistol Sid Vicious awoke in Room 100 of New York's Hotel Chelsea in 1978 to find girlfriend Nancy ...
The bad side of travel writing
This is a top pick! ... interest to me inasmuch as it was published at roughly the time I was stumbling into the business. A magazine had flown me to New York to produce a feel-good feature on a group of Russian classical musicians who'd fled the chaos of Moscow and formed a ...
I Love New York
This is a top pick! ... place where the staff uniforms appeared to all be Hawaiian shirts. I had been saving what would be the highlight of my time in New York for tonight a sort of high point to end on (no pun intended) taking a risk that the perfect weather since ...
Manhattan Mermaid
This is a top pick! While in Washington I met Shelly from Vancouver and Lee from Korea who were now both staying at this same hostel in New York, not exactly a coincidence though after we were looking for the best place to stay together - the free breakfast won it over for ...
Time's Up
This is a top pick! ... triggered a mass scramble for spare seats after take off. I was not sure what I feel other than a headache watching the lights of New York, America and this journey slip away beneath as we climbed into the clouds. The end of a year of traveling, I ...
worst travel experiences and places
This is a top pick! ... in the media, but when was the last time you saw someone say a destination was awful? Or that they disliked a fancy new resort?" he asks on the site. "The Titanic Awards seeks to take a different approach to these often spectacular underachievements in ...
Best free things to do
This is a top pick! ... : In Europe, 27 InterCity Hotels throughout Germany and one in Vienna offer free local public transportation to guests while visitors to New York can't beat the spectacular view of the skyline during the 25-minute ride on the Staten Island Ferry. 5. ...
Uptown girls. We've been living in an uptown etc
This is a top pick! We go in search of yet another meeting set up by Robert with a producer who could give us some advice on publicizing Shit Theatre. With our maps we eventually track it down and find ourselves bang in the middle of times square looking at ...
One Year in NYC!
This is a top pick! ... the time. She is also doing promotions part-time. I hope all is well and will keep you updated on everything soon. Best, Koury www.kouryangelo.com new site i designed and took photos for... ...
Vote for wonders of the world
This is a top pick! Kinda funny, but you have to use real new modern technology to vote for the world's top natural wonders. Voting is now open, and closes at the end of the year. To view the nominated places and vote, go to ...
Word of the year 2008 hypermiling
This is a top pick! ... this year with a helpful how-to ecodrive website. Or maybe that should be how-to hypermile. That's the problem with new words. "Hypermiling" has been around since 2004, but it's still got competitors in the name-the-trend marketplace. Maybe becoming ...
Wierdy Beardy
This is a top pick! In the morning we go see Lois at her apartment also in the East Village – it's a beautiful 'one room’ apartment with kitsch furniture and pictures everywhere and a classic NY fire escape decorated with flowers. (the massive stiletto chair ...
New York Nights
This is a top pick! ... included a series of photos from New Orleans that I took a couple of years ago. Best wishes from New York. Take care, -Koury www.kouryangelo.com new work... ...
Manhattan - better late than never
This is a top pick! Hi to everyone from The Big Apple.... we were due to arrive last Saturday but ended up flying out Sunday so arrived a day later instead. We had said our goodbyes to my sister Michelle & family at the airport in Paris and were preparing for a chaotic ...
New York
This is a top pick! ... I am also doing a photo story and website for the Federation of Black Cowboys. They are Black Cowboys that have a huge ranch in the city with over 30 members and 40 horses. I have been going out there to document the ranch, the kids they mentor and I ...
Broadway and a Movie in with a view
This is a top pick! I checked CouchSurfing for events that were happening in the New York Area. Two things seemed very interesting and fun. There was a preview of some Broadway shows in Bryant Park, and there was an outdoor showing of 'Annie Hall' at Pier 1 in Brooklyn and a ...
Goodbye London, Hello New York
This is a top pick! ... who is lovely and has left us clean towels/bottle of wine/the TV fire burning, invites us up to the party with him. We put on new faces and meet him up there. The view of Manhattan’s entire skyline is a great start to our trip. Ben who’s party ...
Where to people watch and know a place
This is a top pick! ... ; It’s a people-watcher’s paradise. Plus, these are often interesting spaces beyond the human component—think of New York’s Grand Central, or the art in the Moscow Metro. Laundromats Getting laundry done overseas, ironing out (har) ...