I’ll be out of town for the holidays. I’ll be back Jan, 1st, 2010. Happy holidays, keep on being curious about your city. All the best. RB

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Lately, I have had two funny experiences in the city. The first one happened in Central Park while I was having lunch with a friend of mine. We were  on the grass, nibbling a salad and chatting. A group of kids where down the lawn playing with instructors. They must have been at 65 feet [...]

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Hebrew, the chosen beer
Interesting …
at the Tribeca Whole Foods

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Since 1946, each year, the MET, a very prestigious art institution, presents exhibitions on fashion. It displayed Chanel, Poiret : King of fashion, Nan Kempner : American chic etc which tends to show that fashion is part of the American culture. In Europe, particularly in France, that won’t happen. Beaubourg, or any other big museum, [...]

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Last night, Anna Wintour was at 92 Y with Jonathan Tischfor for a talk about… fashion, of course ! And she said Conde believes in excellence. There’s no pressure for changes from the biz side and they never make arrangements with advertising  at  5 : 37 pm according to the NY Mag twitter. Really ! Grab [...]

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Chambers is one of the train station, near the City Hall, where the heart of the town stands. Here is Line C via Brooklyn. Scary ? Surprising ? Call it whatever you want but the most powerful country in the world has trains that we would imagine could run in Pakistan …. Don’t you think [...]

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Replace tourists * by any other community and here you go. You are not anymore a person with a name but a person of a category which, first, doesnt’ make any sense – is every tourist a pain or a troublemaker ? – and second feed beautiful racist thinking.
Woolworth Building
* Tourists are not permitted beyond [...]

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That’s the cover of the new issue of TONY and it’s a fact, you can lower your rent in NY. I know a few people who did. It’s recession time ! Here again a big difference with the European culture. No one, out there, would ever think to call his landlord to lower his rent. [...]

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This image shows what NYC is mainly about : different worlds that can live side by side which doesn’t mean they get along. They may ignore each other but at least they have to share the space and the time. As usual religion is the most presumptuous.

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How can you live in NYC and not enroll a gym ? That’s non sense ! I enrolled Equinox. Basically it’s where the average cool new-yorker goes. It’s actually a really good way to get rid of the tensions that sometimes life brings to you but it’s above all a great spot to watch people [...]

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