“I have been going to live in New York since then Girl of rumors Aired, “I heard a woman who trusts my partner in the Metropolitan Art Museum. These steps were packaged with people who had found precise years, where Blair and Serena had a yogurt in those breakfast days. Before.
For the millennium that are raised in the diet Girl of rumorsWith FriendWith Sex and cityVat The devil wears PradaNyc Dream-a fashionable and fast-paced fantasy where the jobs were built on the heel, a friendship on Branch and met in Bodegas. Now, more than a decade since the end of my favorite plays and well in adulthood, I finally made a journey to NYC pop culture – not just for surfing, but to understand what is real, what has changed, and whether New York has seen it still exists.
SPOILER: It does this-with an astronomical price tag, more queues, and only if you reach the healthy dose of self-awareness.
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I was a teenager under my impact. Girl of rumors I fell like many more, I quickly sweep by the image of the upper east. I was obsessed at the border with breakfast and enjoyed Sass Blair Waldorf and a flawless fashion. In some ways, our lives overlap – minus the burden of the generational wealth boat. Both of us attended the private schools of all girls and applied for NYU. In the case of Blair, Baba pulled the strands. In the mine, no scholarship (despite having scores) was conducted. We also shared the love of the forehead – though these days, the protest of my scalp was more than ever before.
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Even if I was destroyed from attending the NYU Journalism Program, it was not a real pleasure to live in my fantasy in New York. A friend of the town once turned his eyes when I confessed. “What kind of teenager can really get a school from school to drink a drink in the grammar pub or visit the State Empire building on Tuesday?” He asked.
Well, years later, as a journalist based with the ability to reserve my own flights, I was with my husband in New York to find out.
One of our first stops was actually the State Empire building – on Tuesday, just like Blair. We went from the Midtown Hotel to 34 West Street and stopped at Comfort Diner. Not completely Sarab, but we replaced the $ 24 toast for an all -American breakfast: eggs, breadcrumbs, fried potatoes and endless coffee for $ 11.
The streets outside of Missing in Herald Square with “Missing in Blossom”. Midtown may not have shine on the upper east side, but it has superior attractions in the walk or subway. Bryant Park has great Indy coffee, Rockefeller hosts Fallon Tapings, and the Modern Art Museum packs a century of culture in a building.
After a TSA-style security survey and a 72-minute line, we topped it at the top of the State Empire building-first 86th floor, then 102. It is not surprising that Blair lost Chuck when he asked him to meet. It costs $ 80 plus $ 5 trading per adult, with an official photo of $ 25, a magnet for $ 12 and a drink with $ 18. My friend was right – even as a financially independent adult, this was an expensive Tuesday. And it wasn’t even noon.
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Heaven was, of course, breathtaking. But a half-hour stroll on the 34th Street, a cheaper way-and of course more romantic-shows the city’s experience: a long line. Built two miles of two miles west of Manhattan, it offers street arts, performances and landscapes. On the small and old island 57 ends, where we took “sodium” in a Duane Reeade and enjoyed the roof park and presented views to the Freedom Statue. This cost is just $ 7 – much more logical than $ 235 we used a few hours before.
Waldorfs and Van der WoodSens never verify.
Just as we finished our drinks, it was raining, but the 20 -minute walk to the West Village was not very difficult for seasonal London. Unlike what Friend We believe that the Greenwich Village is far from the rental -controlled apartment shelter. Outside the 90th Bedford Street, tourists stood in front of the sunshine building for Monica, Rachel, Chandler and Joey apartments. The weird drivers were proud of the polite and everyone was moving away.
In the early 2000s, a two-bedroom apartment here probably costs between $ 3500 and $ 4,000 a month-now a stretch for a 21st chef is trying and an external bride. However, Monica inherited the lease from her grandmother, which was needed. In the case of Chandler and Joey who live throughout the hall – with the mystery of Chandler’s acting profession – which remains in the realm of Sitcom logic. These days, a bed here costs between $ 9,000 and $ 14,000 per month.
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Perhaps, more tangible Friend The right experience below 90 Bedford: The Little Owl, a restaurant for the central center. Unlike six friends who always had space on the orange bench, there was a queue. I just ordered a cappuccino to say that I just eat coffee in “Perk Real Central Central”, which is signed with peppers, sesame, mint and mussel sauce. I was tempted to order onion soup in honor of Monica soup during the show, but for their skate sandwich – as my husband, who added a lemonade. The whole for two people reached $ 105.30.
With the feeling of spending, we decided to retire at our hotel for the evening.
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The next morning, we moved to the upper East Side for breakfast at the Lexington Candy Store-the latest NYC valid Luncheonette, which was founded and family since 1925. The place was coated with photos of famous dinner, and a worker on the back of the counter accidentally built a giant root. We ordered a butter pancake stack, some grilled cheese and a glass of orange juice that cost $ 8.
This is a scream from the Bradosh Cervage soup soup that used for endless coffee and column writing. The latest popular Diner branch – just seven minutes with the Lexington Candy Store – was closed in 2014 and was replaced by a TD bank. After full meals for less than $ 10, Madison Street opening could not even increase rent from rent when the landlord rose from $ 21,000 to $ 65,000 a month.
Today, work from a Borg soup counterpart like Lexington, Cerry back $ 50-60 for a cappuccino, pancake and orange juice – a scream from his endless coffee days. Unless he earns a word $ 1 (which I was honest, he was not), he must submit several free pieces to cover a single breakfast shift, let alone Chanel or “controlled” upper East Side Flat.
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For more affordable Sex and city For a moment, we moved to the Magnolia bakery. The shop that was known for analyzing Aidan’s good appearance when Kerry and Miranda were sitting abroad once. Instead of cake cakes, we took the “famous world” banana pudding: Costard Vanilla, whipped with banana slices and creams. For $ 5, that was the cheapest thing we all eat – but for those who are priced at $ 24.99 after the full moment of SATC cake cake.
With the rapid decline in our wallets, we retired at our hotel overlooking the magnificent low Manhattan horizon. Fits there was just a short walk from an apartment that Andy Sachs was with his boyfriend, nit, in The devil wears PradaHow did man succeed as an eager journalist in the unemployed graduate from the Financial Zone, Chinatown and Bridge Manhattan.
This is about New York City. As a journalist, much of the pop culture that formed my teens, around writing and publishing, with the characters who shared my love for storytelling. New York made the great dream of feeling inevitable. And while real life may sometimes be closer to Peter Parker and screams at Plaza by delivering pizza or Kevin McCalist for $ 450 at night, the city still offers cinematic moments, just ask the crowd to take their favorite scenes for free.
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