Design Oriented: Let's here it for New York!

I just realized I didn't mention anything about my recent trip to New York!! How I could have overlooked this, I do not know.

I went with most of my studio class and professor to New York because it's the closest thing we have to a city like Tokyo. In one word: amazing! I simply loved it. It was my first time to the east coast, let alone the Big Apple so I was very excited. The whole week we were there the weather was exceptionally beautiful. I think I was spoiled a bit. I keep thinking I wouldn't mind living there, but I know the weather will probably never be that good again.

I feel like I walked for a week straight. We met at 10:30 everyday and went until midnight or 1:00am. We saw so much, but missed so much at the same time. Times Square, the Empire State, Rockefeller Center, CENTRAL PARK, the Met, SoHo, the Noguchi Museum, Herald Square, the Staton Island Ferry, THE HIGHLINE, the Brooklyn Bridge, the World Trade Center, the Seagram building, the Guggenheim, Coney Island, the New York Library, I could go on and on.

I managed to squeeze in two shows: Avenue Q (off-Broadway) and Jersey Boys (Broadway). Jersey Boys was so much fun! The performers were great, I grew up with the music, and the audience had a great energy. Fantastic. Avenue Q was also very good, but I'd seen it before so I wasn't as enthralled.

I think the only experience I had there that could be called close to bad was the night we all went out to find a nightclub and had no luck. It was a Thursday night which probably explains why. We ended up wandering the city for three hours in the middle of the night and the one place we found with a lot of people was entrance by invitation only.

The subway does live up to its dirty and grungy reputation, but I love it because it's so convenient. I think the longest I had to wait for a train was maybe 20 minutes but that was at 2am. It truly is the city that never sleeps which I love. There's always something going on; the city's just so full of energy. I know I need to spend much more time there to get a real sense of what it's like, but I really enjoyed the week I spent there. I just can't wait to get back; there's still so much to see.

Picture Time.