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I haven’t posted anything for Dream Of A City for two months now, aside from the chapters for The Grand Tour and Manhattan in 12 Streets, which don’t strictly count. Admittedly, I’ve been going through a bit of a rough … Continue reading
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Oud Batavia lingers today in a few isolated neighborhoods in Jakarta. The greatest concentration of historic buildings is to the North, in what is now known as Kota, or “City.” Here lies the old administrative and commercial heart of colonial … Continue reading
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So the question is this: how does one re-create something that is no longer there? The Hotel Des Indes was the oldest and the grandest of the Grand Hotels in Southeast Asia, having been opened in the 1860s. It was … Continue reading
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Jakarta was a weird one. I debated for sometime whether or not I would actually visit it – since the fundamental criteria for it being part of the Grand Tour was missing: Jakarta’s Grand Hotel – the Hotel Des Indes … Continue reading
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Emerging from Central Park and a stroll round the Reservoir, we arrive at the Upper West Side, where things are a little less buttoned-up and formal. The foliage here, too, appears in slightly more whimsical and unexpected forms, framing buildings … Continue reading
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At the very heart of 92nd Street is the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, in Central Park. The street itself would cut across the water, but those who walk on it may not pass. Instead, we take the winding path along … Continue reading
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Past 3rd Avenue, the Upper East Side begins in earnest. Here, the landscape changes abruptly, with stately mansions and colonial-era porticoed houses standing in the shadow of slightly more recent tenements and apartments. There is a period, provincial feel that … Continue reading
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Yorkville has a surfeit of towering condominium buildings, flanked by turn-of-the-century tenements and framed by tree-lined streets. Being the height of summer, the trees here had full, leafy canopies, making the entire neighborhood feel a bit like a park or … Continue reading
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“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer, and often the supreme disappointment.” – Ansel Adams 独坐幽篁里，弹琴复长啸。/ 深林人不知，明月来相照 – 唐 王维 《竹里馆》 “Sitting alone in a deserted bamboo grove, / I strum the qin (zither) and sigh long … Continue reading
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