Tag: Manhattan
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Pumpkin season
New York is in full autumn mode. The air feels crisper, the days a little shorter, and the streets are filling up with signs of fall — pumpkins, wreaths, and autumn leaves decorating stoops and shop windows. Many of these classic stoops belong to the city’s brownstones — row houses built in the late 19th…
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Radio City Music Hall
I went to a concert at Radio City Music Hall last Sunday. Opened in 1932 as part of Rockefeller Center, it was once the largest indoor theater in the world and quickly became known as the “Showplace of the Nation.” Over the years, it’s hosted everything from movie premieres to major concerts and award shows.…
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Joint Effort
Only in New York: where a prison-style bootcamp gym called Conbody takes the top floor, and right underneath it sits a cannabis shop named Conbud. Just rewind a few years and cannabis is exactly the thing that could have landed you in prison in the first place. To me, it’s such a contradiction—work out while…
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New York Fashion Week goes Underground
This year, New York Fashion Week spilled into the subway. It probably wasn’t even an official show, but that’s the charm—people just jumping on the excitement wagon. The looks ranged from sculptural headpieces to barely-there outfits, all paraded through a station hallway like it was the most natural runway in the world. Super weird, especially…
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Brooklyn Bridge Views
There are some New York views everyone has seen somewhere—on a postcard, in a movie, or in real life. For me, it’s this one. Even though I’ve only been here once before, it somehow feels instantly familiar: the Brooklyn Bridge stretching across the East River with downtown Manhattan rising just behind. The walking paths along…
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Small helpers
This week has been on fire—figuratively. A pile-up of nerve-wracking things left me with no time (or headspace) for writing. But maybe that’s a fitting lead-in to today’s post: fire trucks. In the U.S., fire trucks are hard to miss—giant, shiny red machines that dominate the streets, and impossible to ignore with sirens that stretch…
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Night construction
Only in New York is construction in the middle of the night considered “less disruptive.” When the sun goes down, the construction sites appear. The streets might quiet down, but somewhere—in my case, next door—someone is throwing wood planks, clanking scaffolding, or drilling into oblivion. In Germany, this would be unthinkable. The uproar would be…
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4th of July
This Fourth of July, I found myself not at a backyard barbecue or watching fireworks like in past years, but at a Mexican restaurant—enjoying one of the best tuna ceviches I’ve ever had, alongside tacos, quesadillas, and queso fundido. We sat outside, taking in the mild summer evening (a rarity in New York). It might…
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A Wave Of Pink
The past few weeks in New York have been a full-on heat wave—heavy, hot, sticky, smelly. Just as the city was melting, this fun little installation popped up on a corner lot: pink everywhere, in the form of flamingos, and common items you come across in the city. The artist’s idea was to remind New…
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Smile
Every time I walk past this glowing grin on the High Line, it makes me think about the universal language of facial expressions—and how a smile can cross cultures and communicate without needing translation. As you know, I’m fascinated by cultural similarities and differences. A smile feels universal—something simple that can have a real effect,…
Josephine in New York City 