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Another year, another opportunity to get in line and see some places in NY that you have never been before! This year I tried some not so popular sites to avoid the lines. Unfortunately, this weekend a lot of things were going on in the city, from the Food & Wine Festival to the Breast Cancer Walk, and the worst of all – the mother of Subway repairs! 18 out of all 20 subway lines were in some kind of irregular schedules, be it skipping stops or replace by …
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Today I went to the New Amsterdam Village at Bowling Green that was set up to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival at what is now the New York Harbor. There are tons of events setup to celebrate through out this NY400 Week, the New Amsterdam Village is one of them. The village is consist of traditional Dutch canal houses, a windmill, a modern greenhouse. It showcases Dutch crafts from wooden shoes to blue painting to glass blowing. Not to mention Dutch flowers and traditional foods including cheese, …
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The High Line at night takes on a completely different character. The carefully positioned lighting showed that this is no ordinary park, it’s more of an urban art work! I hope it will continue to thrive and develop because the City needs to keep adding unique urban characters to remind relevant. We can’t rely on the same old landmarks forever~…
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I heard of MOMA’s P.S.1 Contemporary Center in Long Island City for the longest time, but never really went to check it out until now. Maybe because I just dunno how to appreciate Art, but almost everything in PS1 are too “contemporary” for my taste! The whole time I was like, “What am I looking at? Why?” And for your information I don’t have that problem when I go to the Main MOMA in midtown, I enjoyed it there.
Each summer the courtyard of PS1 would have an eye-catching structure built …
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My plans for today, Fourth of July was to either go to the Central Park Zoo to visit the snow leopard or head to P.S.1 contemporary center for their new exhibits. Neither of the plans become a reality. P.S.1 has the warmup concert going on today, so when I see the lines outside, I already said hell no! Then on my way to the City, I realize my brand new low-rise jeans is hanging too low, it’s falling down every 2 mins and I didn’t wear a belt today (Because …
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Today is the opening day for the Northern end of the Gantry Plaza State Park. Since the weather was extremely pleasant with no rain and not too hot at all, I went to explore this new green space after work!
The original Gantry Plaza State Park was unique with its piers and the restored gantries, but the problem with it is it’s too small, too narrow with not enough green space, it was less of a park but more of a very nice looking waterfront. This new Northern addition remedied the …
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When I first saw the picture of Ernesto Neto’s anthropodino art installation, I thought it’s futuristic and beautiful. But I didn’t have a chance to see it for myself until now. Maybe it’s the end of the exhibit and then too many people have been tampering it, it just doesn’t look as good up close and personal! The scale of this thing is still huge,, but maybe because the color was more subtle than I thought, it just mostly appeared as a giant white drip cloth than anything else. Plus …
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The High Line is finally opened! The long wait is so worth it because it is a park that like nothing you have seen before. 3 stories above the street, this garden in the sky changes your perspective of the city. It somehow has the same affect as a zen garden, it really calm you down. You feel peaceful. It is just so well designed that not only it combined industrial landscape with the nature, but history with contemporary designs as well. It’s magical in so many way! It’s just …
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Just got a new camera, so of course I would like to test-drive it somewhere. But given the murderous sun and the 80 degree weather. I didn’t make it far. Only up to Williamsburg, which happens to have Bedford closed off for the Pedestrians again this summer! The event is called Williamsburg Walks, it’s not those stupid street fair but more a plaza with some chairs and table for people to relax. And given the location, you know it would turn artsy, so you got musicians and artists showing their …
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The High Line is set to open next month and looks like the wave of promotion has already begun! For people who don’t know about the High Line, it is a elevated freight rail track on the Far West Side that was abandoned since the 80s. Over the years plants and grass started to grow and it become a hidden garden in the sky that very few people have a chance to see. In 2006 a project was started to…
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