Hello! Welcome to New York City! My name is Leah and I will be your tour guide this evening. So please sit back, grab your apron, light up a candle of Big Apple scent, and enjoy the sites of our nation’s most populated and visited city.
The first stop on our list is the most recognized icon of New York City, the Statue of Liberty. Here you see her in all her glory lit up against the night sky. As you will remember, she was presented to the US in 1886 as a gift from the people of France. She stands on Liberty Island in the New York Harbor.
Also against this night sky backdrop you will find the infamous Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches 5,989 feet over the East River connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The tallest building you see in the night sky is the Empire State Building. This building is 102-stories and named after its home state’s nickname. It stood as the world’s tallest building for forty years, from its completion in 1931 until the completion of the World Trade Center in 1972. It has also been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
Another of the skyscrapers featured in this skyline is the Chrysler Building. Standing at 1,047 ft, it was briefly the world's tallest building before the Empire State Building surpassed it. However, the Chrysler Building remains the world's tallest brick building.
The circular building you see there is the Guggenheim Museum. It is one of the best-known museums in New York City. The main part of the building is a very unusual shape, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Originally called "The Museum of Non-Objective Painting," the Guggenheim was founded to showcase avant-garde art by early modernists.
The large blocky building with three huge windows is the renowned Grand Central Terminal (GCT, often popularly called Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central). It is a terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger trains, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower.
Notable buildings in the Flatiron district include the Flatiron Building, one of the oldest of the original New York skyscrapers; shown here looking rather triangular. Just to the east at 1 Madison Avenue is the Met Life Tower, built in 1909 and the tallest building in the world until 1913, when the Woolworth Building was completed. Credit Suisse now occupies it since MetLife moved their headquarters to the Pan Am Building. The 700-foot (210 m) marble clock tower of the Met Life Tower dominates Madison Square and the park there.
Scattered all around this crazy, hustle and bustle city you see thousands of taxicabs. In the congested downtown area this is the way to travel, if you are not taking the awesome subway system.
Another very popular attraction to this tourist destination is Broadway theatre, which is why this apron features a very classy halter-top design. Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Broadway theatre is the best-known form of professional theatre to the general public in the United States and the most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The shows that reach Broadway and thrive there have historically been perceived as generally mainstream and less likely to be cutting edge than some produced Off- and Off-Off-Broadway or in regional non-profit theatres.
An additional influence on the design of this apron is the interesting fashion known as New York street style. In this unique fashion, anything seems to go. It might seem mismatched or gaudy or too busy to you, but to New Yorkers it’s stylish!
If you would like to get a feel for New York, just stick your hand in your tiny apron pocket and the claustrophobia will soon sit in!
Thank you for touring with us this evening! I hope you have enjoyed your visit to the Big Apple and will travel here every time you tie this apron on. It has been a pleasure for me to create this experience for you. Now put that shot glass to good use because you’ll need to unwind from all this fun!
This was so much fun!!!
1 comment:
Now THAT is a great vacation letter!!
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