John Street Suites By Alternative Business Accommodations New York City

... just above the floor, most sitting at awkward angles. The domination of the objects really left you feeling so small and diminutive, inconsequential. The objects as still as they were felt dynamic, they really inhabited the space.

Walking downstairs from the three floors of Fischer's strange, hallucinatory world it took me a moment to orient myself back in the here and now. I stopped and sat for a cup of tea at their wee coffee shop on the ground floor. The table ...

A few tips to make a NYC visit that extra bit special...

Always a good omen when a turtle dove happens to choose the basil plant on your fire escape as the perfect nesting place.

1. stay with someone who you love and who loves you:
I am lucky that one of my favorite people in this world happens to have recently relocated to NY. Brooklyn, to be more specific. And to stay with someone and learn about what the city means to them may be the best way to ...

... t-shirts, CDs, pictures, hats etc. I swear half of the African-Americans I see are wearing some sort of MJ gear. I get to the Theater, where people are writing messages on plastic sheeting that stretched for 20m. I then head for the subway to head to the south end of Central Park.

5.30pm - I hire a bike for an hour and ride through Central Park. Despite it being so busy in NYC, I cannot get over at how peaceful it is in the park. There are LOTS of joggers ...

... best ones are the small private tours that take you and a group of friends on a personal walk.

Blue Panda Tours to take me around Soho, Little Italy and Chinatown. The tour was a lot of fun even though it was a bit odd since I was the only one on the tour. But it really didn't feel like a tour at all. The guide talked about historical facts, but he also took me to eat some of the most delicious cheesecakes I ever had. Since I was ...

... people came in droves as they got a free pass into the building. A couple of girls offered us chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, they tasted very good especially waiting for more than two hours. Once I made my way inside, I found the waiting area for precinct 89. The people with names ending in A-L were corralled into one line, the M-Zs into another. The senior citizen ...

... i´m not a big city person...and this is the daddy of them all. My "f*** you!...oh f*** YOU too!" exchange with a local within 2 minutes of arriving on the underground compounded this feeling...and my hostel, the 620 bed monster of a HI creation, certainly contributed to the preconceptions i had of NY impersonality...

It did, however, run an great line up of events and tours. My first was with Jerry, a 60+ New Yorker who ran 11 ...

... to imagine. They have started rebuilding the area now, a colossal task, as it is just a m************ in the ground, a few stories deep. I think they are erecting 5 buildings or so on the site. The area is soo big, it takes your breath away, its like seeing a war zone, even though it is now a regular building site. It reminds you that every local person I have met, every adult at least carries around the burden of that tragedy with them. New York has to be ...

... carbonated, bitter and not much else. The bottle claimed that it was brewed in the style of prohibition bootleggers and I guess that it tasted like it had been brewed in a bathtub so they were probably right. Anyway the meal was great but I made the mistake of taking a photo of the beer (no photos allowed... Apparently they get quite a few celebrities). Tim (my uncle) finally met us at the diner hopping along on ...

... das alles nicht nur einbilde, sondern auch die unterstuetzung von oben bekomme!!! Aber so werde ich derzeit hier auf die probe gestellt! ;-) Ich hoffe euch geht es allen gut und ihr haltet wacker die stellung. Bitte nehmt es mir nicht uebel wenn ich mich so selten melde, aber derzeit war im warsten sinne des wortes "land unter" gemeldet!!! Aber ich versuche in der naechsten Zeit oefter mal ein update zu schicken. Leider ist es mir nicht moeglich ...

Hi again. Today was a busy day. I did the bus tour with the girls. We hopped on and off as we please to see the sites. We went to Ground Zero, Wall Street, Went on the Stanton Island ferry to go past the Statue of Liberty but the hi-light was the Brooklyn Bridge. It ...