Puisque certains réclamaient un peu d'anglais sur mon blog, j'exauce leur souhait en ce début d'année. Voici le "résumé exhaustif" de mes deux semaines à New York en commençant bien évidemment par l'essentiel : le repas de Noel. Pour tous les petits malins qui essayaient de me faire regretter mon non retour en France, voyez plutôt ce que trois étudiants sont capables de se concocter: rassurez-vous, la culture culinaire française perdurera.
Ce post est volontairement long et j'espère qu'il vous donnera vraiment envie de découvrir New-York!!! Une ville exceptionnelle. (un petit conseil : ouvrez google maps sur new-york pour suivre plus facilement :d)
From this point, let's do it in english...
warm reunion with clem!
Clem and I washing the dishes and congratulating each other about our "gratin dauphinois"
Xmas tree and presents at its base
Appetizer : liquid, home-made tuna rillette, tzatziki and fresh crudités, olive spread and bruschetta
starter : foie gras on fig bread with fig jam and rucola. Obvisouly accompanied by Sauternes
One year waiting for this. Enjoying....
Clem and I wildly unpacking the presents... so childly.
Main course : duck breast and its raspberry sauce, served with "gratin dauphinois", green beans, mushrooms and salad and accompanied by a delicious red wine.
They passed the portrait ordeal with high honors!
Highpoint of the show : chocolate fondant with salted caramel ice cream. (and Sauternes)
After that, we were satisified but needed a few days to recover. Our program for Sunday and Monday after Xmas eve : go to the movies, enjoy a jazz performance at the Village Vanguard, sweat our meal at the gym.
But of course, before and after the Xmas Break (3 days) I have been visiting a lot. It was a busy but balanced schedule : going for a walk in the street and parks of Manhattan and Brooklyn, smelling the sea air in Rockaway, visiting museums ... Here are some pictures of the different places of New-York City I have been to :
Chelsea and the High Line :
Elodie and Clement. Winter's coming. It's getting cold out there.
Photos of the high line(in the Chelsea neighbourhood). Formerly a train line that was abandoned and lately turned into a public "park". Some really special buildings from architects such as Frank O. Gehry or Jean Nouvel are raising all around the line. A really nice place to go for a walk.
View of the majestic Empire State Building from the High Line
Some extra pictures of the high line.
Central PARK and its surroundings :
I spent almost 1.5 days in this park walking and enjoying the many different sights it offers.
Dakota Building (Upper West Side, Central park West at 72nd street): Where John Lennon and Yoko ono used to live. (yoko still lives there actually). Close to strawberry fields in Central Park (memorial in memory of John)
Bethesda Terrace : notice that all the fountains of NYC are emptied out at this time of the year to avoid frost.
Clem and Elo told me he is always here. Seems like each capital has its own accredited saxophonist (remember Praha)
squirrel
Conservatory water : this is the place where people come to play with remote-controlled boats (you might have seen it in many movies I think)
Dakota Building
Another Impressive building of the upper west side from the Ramble
Bow Bridge on the Lake
Belvedere Castle
Turtle pond and buildings of the Upper East side from Belvedere Castle
Obelisk
American people practicing the 2 national sports in Central Park
Sunset on the midtown Skyline from the north of the Reservoir.
The pool
In the Ravine
Museums :
As I told you before, I allocated two days to visit museums : essentially MoMA and Guggenheim. I didn't have time to visit the Met(ropolitan museum) which is basically the american Louvre.
a "feminist" contemporary piece of art that litteraly looks like underhung balls (excuse me for being so rude but I couldn't find another way to say it)
atomic mushroom cluddy toy : a bit awkward don't you think ?
And some famous masterpieces by Gaugin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Warhol...
Gauguin : Le germe des areois
Van Gogh : La nuit étoilée
Picasso : Les demoiselles d'Avignon
A Klimt that makes me feel home !
Matisse : Vue de Notre-Dame
2 of the three nymphéas by Monet exposed
Monroe and the King by Warhol.
Don't want to bother you with art :d.
The Famous rotunda of the Guggenheim:
Inside the Guggenheim: a famous building by Frank Lloyd Wright (upper east side : 89th street and Central Park East)
KKK Elephant ?
An original temporary exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan (a provocative italian artist.)
This museum also contains a lot of paintings by Kandinsky and other famous artists.
Brooklyn :
Brooklyn is a huge district of New-York City located on the east of the East River (with Queens). Some places are known to be the spot of artists.
Park Slope: (an upper-crust residential place in Brooklyn)
Funny timing
Prospect park: as Central Park, this is an artificial Park. It was actually designed by the same architect.
Brooklyn public library
Brooklyn flea Market : (former building of a bank). Unfortunately it was closed when I passed by.
Details of Brooklyn Opera.
Williamsburg (artists' district)
Manhattan from Williamsburg (artists' disctrict in Brooklyn)
A series of photographs for a 200° Panorama (from south to north)
Feels like Home
Manhattan: Let's take a walk in Manhattant now :Madison Square Park: (Flatiron)
New York's features : ancient and very nice skyscrapers coexist !
The Flat Iron : the first high-rise building (one of my favourites)
Lower Manhattan : CBD
Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge from the Manhattan Bridge
Details of Manhattan Bridge
Two really impressive stonework high-rise buildings located on City Hall Plaza
Streets in South Chinatown
Manhattan Bridge's gate
This is Chinatown Indeed!
Federal Plaza
Wall street and NYSE Building ! Where everything's being decided.
Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges by night from East River Piers
Lower Manhattan Skyline by night from Brooklyn Bridge's pedestrian ways.
New-York's answer to 9/11 : Freedom Tower (104 stories) on former "Ground Zero"
On City Hall Plaza (new york's Court)
Following Broadway on the way South, I finally reached Battery Park : Embarcadero for ferries to Statue of Liberty ... (but I have not been to its base, sorry folks I can just provide you with a faraway glimpse of it)
This explains the next photograph better than I would.
Guess what that is...
Greenwich and West Village :
On my way to Greenwich village passing by the Hudson river wharves.
Below are some photographs taken while walking in the streets of Greenwich village. A real taste of Englang in here : flight of steps, bricks... but still... New-York's famous fire escapes.
New-York University is ideally located in Greenwich Village, right on Washington Square.
Is that Empire State Building from Place de l'Etoile ?
Union Square:
On My way North : Union Square (Broadway and 14th Street)
On 42nd street, cult Movie places : Grand Central, Time Square...
The biggest Apple Store in NYC (in the middle of Grand Central main concourse)
Grand Central and The Chrysler Building (the most beautiful skyscraper to me)
Guessing 1 Bryant Park and Time Square
New York Public Library (Bryant Park)
ESB from the inside of NYPL
Inside the library
Market on Bryant Park
1 Bryant Park (the skyscraper)
Time Square and its famous "10-storey wide" screens
yellow cabs moving : NYC
New York Times' Headquarters not far from Time Square
Modern Architecture
Close To Empire State
Herald Square
Macy's, (galeries lafayettes) on Herald Square (34th street and 6th avenue)
On my way to Colombus Circle and Central Park, walking 8th Avenue uptown!
Hearst Tower by Norman Foster
Colombus Circle:
Colombus Circle : one of the few traffic circles in NYC
Central Park south west gate
Jazz at Lincoln Center. This is not the club I have been to but this is still another institution of Jazz in NYC (in addition to the Blue Note, Village Vanguard). For those who are curious, Elo Clem and I went to Village Vanguard to enjoy Cedar Walton's quartet's performance. This was a really freakin' awesome Xmas present buddy!
Walking alongside south Central Park until the South East corner : (upper east side limit : kind of 16th arrondissement equivalent)
Plaza Hotel : really beautiful building
The most famous Apple Store : 59th and 5th
5th Avenue
On fifth avenue, New York's Haussmann Boulevard :
Rockefeller Center
Light show at the Rockefeller Center
Southwards:
Northwards :
Eastwards
North to central park in Harlem (just the very south) :
Inside St John's Cathedral
Columbia University Main Street :
Rockaway beaches : One piece of advice, don't come to New-York if you want to get a suntan while lying on the sand. Our Atlantic beaches are much nicer. But at least I have seen the Atlantic Ocean from both sides !
"Fair Winds and Following Seas." (picture not taken on purpose).
Hope you enjoyed this post. Wishing everybody the best. Happy New Year. Missing you all.
By the way, I am back in Berkeley where weather is way nicer. I notified on Facebook that we should correct Mark Twain's quotation : "Le plus bel été de ma vie est un hiver à SF" is far more approriate these days.
Take it easy!
PS : papi et mamie vous trouverez bien un petit-enfant pour vous traduire tout ça ;)
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