mardi 18 mars 2014

New York, last day + trip in review








—Sunday, March 9th: Chelsea; Antiques Garage; Niketown; the Plaza Hotel; Amsterdam Ave; can of Sofia Blanc de blancs
Monday, March 10th: Capezio; Yumiko; Grishko; Soho shopping; Union Square; ballet class at The Ailey Extension
Tuesday, March 11th: morning ballet class at Steps; Columbus Circle; beautiful weather (no jacket required) walk through the bottom of Central Park, from the zoo to the Reservoir; Café Lalo (cheese plate and coffee); Riverside Park; dinner at The Hampton Chutney
Wednesday, March 12th: (my birthday!) Cort Theatre for Waiting for Godot starring Patrick Steward and Ian McKellan; Ladurée Soho (espresso, almond-cherry religieuse, a box of macarons to go)
Thursday, March 13th: Grand Central (for pineapple and Zaro’s rainbow cookies); a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Rodin’s Orphée et Eurydice ♥)
Friday, March 14th: Bloomingdales; Uniqlo 5th Ave; Rockefeller Center; ballet class at Broadway Dance Center (my favouite!)
Saturday, March 15th: Herald Square shopping (Macy’s, etc.); Strand Books; Washington Square Park; Battery Park; Century 21 (Bloch flats!); beautiful taxi ride along the FDR drive (bridges a night, full moon)
Sunday, March 16th: Canal Street; Chinatown (green tea pocky and Japanese candies); lunch at Café Gitane; Diptyque Paris and Fjallraven; Lower East Side Tenement Museum (Irish Outsiders tour); Katz’s Deli
Monday, March 17th: avoiding midtown because of the parade; Upper West Side (Zabar’s and Lincoln Center)