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“After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.” – Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar So what have I learned from this year of nostalgia and re-discovery? I’ve learnt, for a … Continue reading
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Past Co-op Village, we reach a very narrow strip of parkland at the very edge of Manhattan. Just beside it, is the Gigeresque expanse of the Williamsburg Bridge; and across the water is Williamsburg, Brooklyn – home to yuppies, expatriates … Continue reading
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Near the edge of the water, we enter the final ethnic enclave on Grand Street. This is the largely Jewish enclave of Co-op Village. Here, one sees a landscape of towering red-brick apartment buildings with stunning views unto the water … Continue reading
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A bit of the Lower East Side strays into Grand Street. And this is the Lower East Side as it is traditionally envisioned – a little rough, depressed financially, slightly more religious. Here there are 99 cent stores a plenty, … Continue reading
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Chinatown is the beating heart of Grand Street – its grandest bazaar and marketplace, and also its most colourful and unexpected stretch. Here’s where most Chinese immigrants in the last century have made their first port of call, upon arriving … Continue reading
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Little Italy is one of the oldest and most famous ethnic enclaves in the city, extant since the turn of the 19th century. Once it used to sprawl over a large expanse of Grand Street, and more than 10,000 Italians … Continue reading
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These lands are the most scenic along the street. It isn’t just the buildings, which are turn of the century tenements and townhouses, given a fresh coat of paint and a new lease of life as design studios, quaint cafes, … Continue reading
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Emerging from the Canal St Subway Station, one is thrown into a liminal space, with skyscrapers, billboards and even a view onto the new World Trade Center One building. This space is America itself; Manhattan itself. But yet, it is … Continue reading
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“The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river, passing along up or down with the flood-tide or ebb-tide, The mechanics of the city, the masters, … Continue reading
Dream Of A City 