Dore orchid, Le Grillon Voyageur Origines, Sezanne, France.
As I've received a second review copy of Candace Bushnell's new book One Fifth Avenue, here's your chance to win. Leave a comment saying what you appreciate most about New York City. I'll draw the winner's name at noon Paris time on Saturday, Nov. 29th. Good luck!
I like the bookstores and the pretzels. I am going there Dec 12th weekend, so short but money is tight. I keep ordering the books on your sidebar. Amazon is going to be my financial ruin.
Posted by: Yoli | 29 November 2008 at 00:38
I love all the people from everywhere who come together and love the city.
Posted by: Jill | 27 November 2008 at 23:27
What I appreciate most about NY City is that it has a meaning ''the clear visible presence of a woman's''.
So I love NYC.
Thanks for giving this opportunity to enter in your generous giveaway.
Posted by: Nihal | 27 November 2008 at 17:01
Ha, easy - the ability to buy whatever it is you are looking for and there is even so many choices.
xo
Posted by: Judy Wilkenfeld | 27 November 2008 at 13:52
Gill, I think you will love New York. Of course you won't have much time there, but it is hoped your appetite will be whetted for more visits! Central Park is lovely, but best viewed in the fall or spring. Am looking forward to hitting some of the city's highlights with you!
Posted by: Tara Bradford | 26 November 2008 at 23:24
Maia, as a former New York resident, I, too, appreciate the walking everywhere aspect of the city. I miss the city's myriad attractions and am always happy for any opportunity to spend time there.
Posted by: Tara Bradford | 26 November 2008 at 23:23
Since I lived there for six years, I can answer this in retrospect...I love the fact that New York is a walking city. I love to walk. There is nowhere you can't walk to in Manhattan, and while walking, it is an unsleeping, ever-changing feast for the eyes. Oh, and the windows at ABC carpet & home. I appreciate those.
Posted by: Maia | 26 November 2008 at 21:40
I'm hazarding a guess, that besides seeing Tiffany's, Rockefeller Center and YOU! Central Park will come a close second. I'm hoping to love it, and I think I will!
So count me out of the drawing, for in all fairness I can't answer this yet!
I'll know in six days.
xoxo
Posted by: Gillian daSilva | 26 November 2008 at 16:50
I am wondering why my picture pops up each time I leave a comment. Hmm.. I hope you don't mind seeing my face this much. lol
Harlem... seeing all the history, the brownstones on Malcolm X blvd, crossing the street to see the mosque, then settling into Sylvia's soul food restaurant. ; )
Posted by: Christina | 26 November 2008 at 16:27
Happy Thanksgiving Tara!
My favorite thing about New York is the combination of people from all over the world in one city living together. Makes me happy!
xox
Constance
Posted by: rochambeau | 26 November 2008 at 14:00
Tara I have yet to visit New York city!
Talk about going however not had the pleasure yet.Have had several opportunities that never panned out.I will get there one day and I suppose it would be to shop til I drop,take in a Broadway Show,dinner..see the statue of Liberty although I did see it in Paris and in the Alace region in France!
A gathering of Blogging friends in New York city..that would be FUN!!
Posted by: naturegirl | 26 November 2008 at 07:04
What I really want it to know who to get on the list so that I can get advanced copies of my own. I love that idea!
Posted by: Relyn | 26 November 2008 at 03:35
I love it that my oldest daughter is there, and that is is her second home. I love it that SHE loves it, and is embracing her life, with all its challenges and questions, there.
Posted by: debra | 26 November 2008 at 00:44
I appreciate that when I'm hyped and hyperventilating from running from one great location to the next -- I can count on a street vendor to give me an ethnic, delicious and cheap meal on many a street corner...this way I can keep going without wasting any time or breaking the bank! I LOVE that! Thank God for those aluminum, heated carts and the people who run them every day!
Posted by: Susan Elliott | 25 November 2008 at 23:59
I love all the "differentness" of NYC! It feels like you've got the whole world at your fingertips. So much to see and so much to do, and so many people to do it with!
Posted by: RD | 25 November 2008 at 23:10
oh that question is easy. i honestly (don't laugh now) have gone to New York only once and i was mesmerized by central park. i know, i know not terribly original. but the big deal was all the people everywhere and how interesting they all seemed to me. exotic even! but i think they really were interesting and that i was not imagining it. being 90 and playing chess in the cold, singing in your underwear, running the New York marathon with thousands of strangers... it was everything i had ever imagined it to be and more!
XOX love to you and thanks for your visits while i was away!
Posted by: Robin Laws | 25 November 2008 at 22:49
Give my regards to Broadway! That's what I appreciate most -- good theatre, excellent musicals, marquees, splendid old theatres. Gotta dance!
Posted by: jeanie | 25 November 2008 at 22:33