NY. Impression. Part 4

06 august 2009 Travel time: with 10 October 2008 on 21 October 2008
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You can write a lot about NY. The city is multifaceted. And for everyone who has visited it, there are places or things that they liked the most. As one of my friends in NY said, there is a Deribasovskaya for everyone. I will miss some impressions. One could talk for a long time about Little Italy, where there are more Italians than in Rome. About SOHO with its boutiques and stores of all kinds of avant-garde clothing and accessories. About Greenwich Village with its bars with live music, with houses in the spirit of old Europe, where all sorts of artists, artists and just wealthy people live. Where Brodsky read his poems and played Jimi Hendrix, where Robert de Niro grew up. In Chinatown with its Chinese restaurants, Buddhist temples and "Rollex" for 5 dollars. However, all this has already been described and shown, and if desired, anyone can find and read-look. The best thing to do is to see it with your own eyes.

I want to tell you more about where to eat, where to buy. NY is a city that has everything. From edibles in stores you can buy products from all over the world. In restaurants, cafes, bars, of which there are about 45 thousand in New York, cuisines from all over the world are presented. Price offers for absolutely every pocket. Starting with street stalls with hot dogs, roasted chestnuts and other rubbish, continuing with McDonald's, Kingsburgers and Starbucks, then cafes with Belgian, French, African, American and any other cuisines and ending with all sorts of elite restaurants. Everything is. We ate mostly at home, and in the city we had a snack in cafes. The general impression is that you can eat without any fear of poisoning, eat stale, yesterday's, etc. Everything is absolutely fresh and delicious. It so happened that we chose Starbucks. This is a network of cafes where they sell coffee, tea, drinks, pastries and all sorts of burgers.


Coffee is decent, pastries are fresh, burgers are tasty and satisfying. By Prices: 2 small Americanos (0.33l each) plus a hefty piece of cake and a rather strong burger with tuna and some kind of greens pulled 7-50 all together. Expensive? Cheap? Judge for yourself. Lunch at a Belgian establishment where freshly baked bread serves different types of chicken meat on a large plate plus salads and tea cost about $ 27 for two. Dinner in an Ethiopian restaurant, so it was already climbing back, cost us 50 bucks with a tip. You could bring your own wine, which we did. They bring everything quickly, everything hot, then they will definitely come up and ask if everything is delicious or everything is good. After making sure that the client is satisfied, they no longer bother until you call them yourself. Money if it's cash, you can just leave it on the table. No one will run and shout "Muschina! You didn't pay off. " To do this, when leaving, as a rule, an inconspicuous little man sits who looks to make sure everything is fine.

If you got up from the table and headed for the exit, then by the time you get there, he has already noticed whether you left the money or the waiter quietly nods to him, serving your table and he, with a sweet smile, wishes you a good day and says goodbye to you as the dearest guest throughout the history of the institution. What happens when you don't pay, I don't know. Haven't tried.

About shops. They, too, are dark in darkness. I won't list all the places we've been. I will say this. We bought jeans and things related to jeans, so to speak, in GAP stores. In New York, the gap is at every turn. Things are good quality. The average price of jeans is 55 bucks. Levis costs the same. In addition, the gap group includes the Old Navy brands, which are simpler, but I won’t say that the average price of jeans is 25 bucks worse, and Banana Republic is cooler but not always better - pants for 75 bucks. There are things from which the whole of New York is now rushing. For example Diesel.

(pants for 150 bucks) If you dress from Diesel you are not childishly cool - so they think. There are even more expensive ones like SEVEN or True religion(250 bucks). European brands also have all these Esprit Guess and the like. They are expensive "patamushta Europe". We also really liked two stores. The first is Macy's, New York's oldest department store, 150 years old. The main store is located on the corner of Broadway and 34th-35th streets. Yes it turns out it occupies the whole block. They sell clothes, watches, jewelry and perfumes. Everything is very affordable prices, and brands with a worldwide reputation. He has his own website where you can also buy everything, because if you are interested, see for yourself. Let me just say that after returning we continue to dress there because our prices are simply idiotic in comparison. The second store is Centuri 21. Generally a song. There are only brands (boss, dolce gabana, calvin klein, marc jacobs, ralph lorain) But the collections are not today's, but for example last season. They are just ridiculous.


Here they are, probably contemplating the "Atlantic Ocean" and basking in the rays of the sun, they are satisfied with life. Probably better than what we have now. But this is for them. Young people tend to leave Brighton. There are no prospects here. There is a danger of staying here forever, vanishing into the Bytonian atmosphere. After all, it is not necessary to know English. Many do not know. And without it, you won't get anywhere.

Well, this already looks like agitation. No. These are our impressions.

And finally the airport. I forgot to say. that neither there nor back there were any problems with crossing the borders, passing through passport control and customs. No one rummaged through the bags, did not ask bad questions like "Is there lard? Are there apples? ". While the plane was getting ready for takeoff, it got dark. Gaining altitude, the pilot made such a semicircle over the city. And we sat just near the right porthole. And the city endowed us with a fantastic view. A sea of ​ ​ sparkling lights.

Luminous buildings, ships and bridges.

If there is another opportunity, we will return with pleasure to the "city of the yellow devil" to the "big apple". There are many more interesting things.

About people and atmosphere. The city is friendly people are friendly and open. Smiling, ready to help, suggest, tell. Patiently, if you do not understand, repeat more slowly. Here are some facts. Before boarding the plane, for security reasons, all lighters, matches, etc. were taken away from us. Promised to return when we sit down and did not return. For 10 hours of flight, the ears without smoking curled up into a tube. Coming out of the customs zone, we first rushed to smoke. There is no fire. We let's pester people who smoke on the street - give a light. A guy passing by, seeing our attempts, simply asked, do you need matches? We are!!!!!!!!!! ! He hands us a box and says pliz-keep it for yourself. In the souvenir shop, we forgot the package with the paid goods at the checkout.


At the exit from the store, we were stopped by the same inconspicuous employee as the restaurant. He asked if we were buying anything. Hearing "yes" he nodded to someone and our package was brought to us with a smile. On the bus, we took seats across the aisle from each other, as the people who had come earlier were seated at the windows. The girl who was sitting by the window next to me asked, seeing that we were talking across the aisle, maybe you want to sit down together? If I knew the language well, I would begin to say something like - "yes, don't worry", otherwise all I was capable of was a simple "yes". She got up and moved to her wife's place. And we rode together sitting side by side. That's probably all. Draw your own conclusions.

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