Nan’s top 5

• Candle 79
• the Guggenheim
• Central Park
• Strand Bookstore
• the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA)

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From B’s New York diary

Context, Originally uploaded by Kitty LaRoux

5th April, Thursday.

Aside from Central Park, green appears in the most unexpected places in this grey city. On the tops and sides of buildings by way of small and large trees – even just the moss on the building across the road viewed from our small apartment window. A pigeon is pecking at it as I write. These birds fly in and out of the traffic and I’ve never seen one lie in the road – streetwise!

- As published in Going Places, the output of a book workshop run by Ed Hutchins, also of Manhattan.

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“A New York story”

is the sub-title of Frances Kiernan’s “The last Mrs Astor” … I bought this while in Australia over Christmas.  Bought where? The most fantasticist bookshop in Oxford Street, Sydney – Darlinghurst.   The Brooke Astor story;  anyone read it?

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