Comments on: Get me into the New York state of mind http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/02/04/get-me-into-the-new-york-state-of-mind/ Travel stories, world music, travel books, and a close peek at unique destinations. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Antonia Malchik http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/02/04/get-me-into-the-new-york-state-of-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-29333 Antonia Malchik Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:44:28 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=289#comment-29333 Thank you, Traci! Not only is the book now on my list--so is the image of where I'm going to read it. One of my complaints about New York is the seeming lack of good, cozy places to escape with a book. After Viennese coffeehouses, nothing else really compares. But am I getting the feeling that these places are reserves of insiders' knowledge? May is a wonderful for the city. What's keeping me away right now is not the weather for myself, but the infant son I've got to tow along, plus diaper bag. I don't mind sleet, but he probably does. So ... what first gave you that twinge of "Wow, I love this place" when you moved there? The first time I ever thought of seeing it as 'home' was while visiting a friend who lives in the Lower East Side, walking through all those leafy neighborhoods -- as you say, the human-sized buildings. And Brooklyn. I think I could like Brooklyn. Thank you, Traci! Not only is the book now on my list–so is the image of where I’m going to read it. One of my complaints about New York is the seeming lack of good, cozy places to escape with a book. After Viennese coffeehouses, nothing else really compares. But am I getting the feeling that these places are reserves of insiders’ knowledge?

May is a wonderful for the city. What’s keeping me away right now is not the weather for myself, but the infant son I’ve got to tow along, plus diaper bag. I don’t mind sleet, but he probably does.

So … what first gave you that twinge of “Wow, I love this place” when you moved there? The first time I ever thought of seeing it as ‘home’ was while visiting a friend who lives in the Lower East Side, walking through all those leafy neighborhoods — as you say, the human-sized buildings. And Brooklyn. I think I could like Brooklyn.

]]> By: Traci http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/02/04/get-me-into-the-new-york-state-of-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-29141 Traci Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:39:59 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=289#comment-29141 Antonia, you have to check out Paul Auster's "City of Glass", the first novella in his New York Trilogy. It's a strange and intriguing story that is perfect to think about while wandering the streets of NYC. If you can, read this short book in a cozy spot downtown (how about La Lanterna on MacDougal?). Then wander until you are lost in the West Village, where the buildings are human-sized (about the height of a 200 year old trees) and the streets haphazard and surprising. I am also a western US transplant who has lived in NYC for almost a decade. I continually fall deeper in love with this place. I admit that Feb. is the most miserable month to try to give NYC a chance - why not May when everyone shakes free of their winter sadness? Antonia, you have to check out Paul Auster’s “City of Glass”, the first novella in his New York Trilogy. It’s a strange and intriguing story that is perfect to think about while wandering the streets of NYC.

If you can, read this short book in a cozy spot downtown (how about La Lanterna on MacDougal?). Then wander until you are lost in the West Village, where the buildings are human-sized (about the height of a 200 year old trees) and the streets haphazard and surprising.

I am also a western US transplant who has lived in NYC for almost a decade. I continually fall deeper in love with this place. I admit that Feb. is the most miserable month to try to give NYC a chance – why not May when everyone shakes free of their winter sadness?

]]> By: Antonia Malchik http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/02/04/get-me-into-the-new-york-state-of-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-28387 Antonia Malchik Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:13:55 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=289#comment-28387 Thanks for the tip Kelly. I'll take anything and everything. I've had some suggestions from a friend to reread some EB White, too, since he's often called the quintessential New York writer. But wouldn't O. Henry fit that description, too? Thanks for the tip Kelly. I’ll take anything and everything. I’ve had some suggestions from a friend to reread some EB White, too, since he’s often called the quintessential New York writer. But wouldn’t O. Henry fit that description, too?

]]> By: Kelly http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/02/04/get-me-into-the-new-york-state-of-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-28122 Kelly Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:07:42 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=289#comment-28122 Some wonderful suggestions here, a few of which I have added to my Goodreads "to read" list for this year. Since I am moving into Manhattan this month, I'm eager for some titles about Gotham. I'm having trouble coming up with some NY-themed titles of my own to suggest right now (I guess I have not read that many?!) but I did just finish a brand new novel set in several upper west side 'hoods of Manhattan. If the Morningside Heights/Manhattan Valley sections of the city interest you, this one might be worth a go: it's called Ellington Boulevard by Adam Langer. Some wonderful suggestions here, a few of which I have added to my Goodreads “to read” list for this year. Since I am moving into Manhattan this month, I’m eager for some titles about Gotham.

I’m having trouble coming up with some NY-themed titles of my own to suggest right now (I guess I have not read that many?!) but I did just finish a brand new novel set in several upper west side ‘hoods of Manhattan. If the Morningside Heights/Manhattan Valley sections of the city interest you, this one might be worth a go: it’s called Ellington Boulevard by Adam Langer.

]]> By: Antonia Malchik http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/02/04/get-me-into-the-new-york-state-of-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-26962 Antonia Malchik Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:28:44 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=289#comment-26962 Movies, good. Yes, you're right, Caitlin. But you might have to drug me to get me to like a Woody Allen movie! Alison, I'm very interested in that strong anti-NYC response. So many people truly do love New York, either through having grown up there, or having moved there and fallen in love with it. It's sad that the assumption of its attractiveness to everyone has in fact prompted the opposite reaction. So yes, I definitely think it's worth writing more about! Movies, good. Yes, you’re right, Caitlin. But you might have to drug me to get me to like a Woody Allen movie!

Alison, I’m very interested in that strong anti-NYC response. So many people truly do love New York, either through having grown up there, or having moved there and fallen in love with it. It’s sad that the assumption of its attractiveness to everyone has in fact prompted the opposite reaction. So yes, I definitely think it’s worth writing more about!

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