happy saturday!

we made an early start to our day- this was the coldest day out of all the ones when my dad was here. we were going to walk across the booklyn bridge but decided against it. so cold. so we grabbed gorilla coffee and headed to mid town, all three of us.
so we were headed to the highline {it's this cool park that is on raised old train tracks} is that a naked lady in the window? nope just a mannequin.

we made it to the highline!










we walked to the end of the highline- over chelsea and into the meat packing district. the meatpacking district is super cool because the fronts of the shops just look cool and all of the roads are cobble stone.

moving on into the village...

"welcome to the jungle"

mitch pointed out this sign. we all thought it was funny... in case you can't see the huge mc d's, there's a sign letting you know it's a block away... craziness!


the film forum is this famous small theater with apparently really uptight, overly serious movie goers {you don't want to make any noise or crinkle paper in this joint}





welcome to SOHO!















me {the little new yorker} in front of the DKNY store in soho... gotta love it. have i told any of you how much i LOVE new york? hey- i heart new york!

Where are we?!

DISCLAIMER: the above picture was posed and is not in fact taken out of reality. we do not REALLY stand out on city corners with giant maps looking like tourists


ah yes... so where are we you ask.. we are on canal street! canal street is very exciting! you walk down crowded streets and here people in hushed voices repeating phrases like "rolex" and "coach" and you can score a burberry cashmere scarf for $7 {me and my dad now have matching ones} they are totally legit! okay, so they aren't really burberry, they are made in scotland, but the label says it's 100% cashmere and it's soft and i really don't care. if you ask my dad he'll use words like "totally legit" when describing them.

so leaving canal street we went in search of the subway and the boys consulted the map. i know that this photo looks posed with mitch pointing one way and my dad looking the other way... but it's not, and yes, it was quite funny.



this was taken at battery park which over looks the statue of liberty- we were cold and getting tired and didn't stay too long. this statue is particularly cool because it used to be at the twin towers, survived, and got relocated here at battery park. it has a flame that's always burning.


for dinner we went to franny's. it's this killer pizza place on flatbush in brooklyn. we've never been but have been wanting to. so there's this big rival between chicago pizza and new york pizza... i'm putting my vote towards ny, by a landslide, there is NO debate for me. mitch's favorite pizza is seattle pizza {Tutta Bella pizza is his favorite he says} but that is ny pizza, so point for ny. however, he does like chicago pizza because you're full in three bites... point one for chicago. i don't know if my dad's ever had chicago pizza, but i do know that he liked ny pizza so much that we had pizza sunday night too... so point 3 for ny! that's 3 to 1 with mitch voting twice {i let him because he's always so black and white and hardly ever diplomatic, so him stating positive points for each is major, and pizza's a serious issue}

after dinner we walked up flatbush to the brooklyn museum of art {me and mitch go almost every first saturday of the month because it's fun and free and fabulous and festive and frivolous {okay, maybe not frivolous, but i was on a F***ing roll okay} so we went to the museum {our treat}

so when you walk in the lobby there's live music {because it's the first saturday, it's not normally like that} and the whole lobby is littered with Rodin sculptures. like, real Rodin sculptures, bronze that he touched and now sit in a museum in brooklyn... it still trips me out a little when i go in there.


there's this cool exibit that ends this month that's called "who shot rock and roll" and it's all photographs. i figured there'd be a lot of ani lebowitz, cuz, she DiD shoot rock and roll... and was pleasantly surprised to find only a couple that she did. it was pretty crazy, there was a theme of youth in all of the pictures, and i had never seen some of these musicians looking so young- it was also cool to see that most of them were shot in NY. the one that stopped us in our tracks were these black and white portraits of the beatles... they were just beautiful... and we checked who the photographer was and saw that it was avadon, which gave us this whole new appreciation for it. i mean, avadon is the genius fashion photographer...it was totally stellar fantastic!




me and my dad in the kitchen in our matching scarves