So I've had two good trips to NYC in the last month's time AND I'm moving there in a week! I'M MOVING TO NYC!! Washington Heights ((because that's all I can afford)) here I come, yay! It hasn't even sunk in one bit that I'm moving to New York Fucking City but I'm totally ready for it... I've loved the place for as long as I've known it, which in my case goes back to 1991 when I was 8 years old.
Anyway for the October trip I stayed at the freaking W Hotel on Lexington right by Grand Central Terminal, one block from the Seagram Building, expenses paid... I mean sheeeeeeeeeeeit. Then this week I stayed at an apartment in Harlem that had been ransacked while they were away for a week and a half in Boston with me (no joke, my grand introduction to their place was seeing what a heartfelt turn-the-whole-place-upside-down home invasion looks like) while making various work trips up and down the island of Manhattan in a bloated 15 passenger van with trailer in tow (OMFG PARKING THAT THING BLOWS). Why massive van in Manhattan? Because rock band.
And now that I've rambled on for way too long, who's up for some boring architecture shots...
Thurr's mah gurrrl ^
View from the W Hotel:
Penn Station:
And into the night:
And now we leave that ^ lonely dude behind and fast forward to November!
Quick stop to the lunch counter at Cafe Edison before it disappears forever:
Another doomed institution:
This one's been long gone:
But heyyyy progress!
__________________ Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Nice pictures of the Skyscrapers! Welcome to our City and I'm sure you'll enjoy it here. FYI- When I first moved here 18 years ago -guess where I ended up my first night?....Yeap- Washington Heights! Back then it was a much rougher neighborhood- I only lasted ONE night then I split! Much improved area since then but it was one of those classic first move to NYC kind of stories! LOL-Too funny! Good Luck
FYI- When I first moved here 18 years ago -guess where I ended up my first night?....Yeap- Washington Heights! Back then it was a much rougher neighborhood- I only lasted ONE night then I split! Much improved area since then but it was one of those classic first move to NYC kind of stories! LOL-Too funny! Good Luck
Ha, even though I'm just moving there, my friends who got robbed are moving to Washington Heights and that in turn is prompting my move (I had been looking to move down for some time). And I'm hoping that with their bad fortune that that's all there'll be of it and it'll be nothing but smooth sailing from here on out... HOPEFULLY.
Anyway thank you
__________________ Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
nice work and good job hitting up the edison diner before it closes. i dk what it is, but the staff have always been the nicest people in there. tasty diner food too. loved that place. i wish they would turn it back into the ballroom it was, but i doubt it. i suppose it will end up some clever space only open to the rich. oh well. welcome to new gentrify city!
I have some friends in Washington Heights and they love it. It's a neighborhood with bones as good as any in the city. Heck, the country. I wish I had the money to buy a building there, that place is exploding right now.
There's something about this pic... likely a bunch of separate little things... that all combine to make the scene and the pic just sooo typical of (what I recall from my times in) NYC.
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