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LAX to MPD

Thursday, February 4th, 2010
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{MPD at night via Sporkist}

Paisley Petunia is just mad about New York City. We love everything about the city and feel like we have the best of both worlds when we visit NYC and then come home to LA. With New York Fashion Week just around the corner the city is getting glam and while sadly, we won’t be able to make it east for FW this year we still like to keep tabs on all the fashion and fabulousness.

J and I usually stay at the W Union Square but we also love the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District. It’s such a posh place you can’t help but feel cool when you’re there. I had the good fortune to spend some time in Brooklyn for work a while back and S visited Highline Park this past summer (click here if you missed it) and lord knows we have both eaten our way through alot of yummy in bewteen.  Here is what we’d be doing if we were in NYC right now.

EAT: Breakfast at MPD staple Pastis. The brioche french toast is heaven and Sunday brunch here is a tradition.

SHOP: We love ScoopNYC for a perfectly edited mix of some of our fav designers. I love Rag and Bone and Alice + Olivia and this is a great one stop shop for some of the coolest pieces. Plus, Scoop Kids and Scoop Men are right there so you can tick those gifts off your list all at once.

EAT (again): at 5Ninth. I adore their french dip and the leafy green patio area is a little urban oasis.

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WANDER: White Columns Gallery. A beautiful edgy space featuring local and underrepresented artists.

COCKTAIL: Gansevoort Hotel. No trip to the MPD is complete without a rooftop cocktail at the Gansevoort Hotel. The late night scene is a little much for me but a pre-dinner cocktail here is perfect.

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PRIMP: Red Market Salon. A truly unique concept of an evening salon with rotating art installations, DJs spinning and a dossier of rockstar stylists to make sure you are appropriately glammed before your big night out. If you are in the neighborhood this Friday check out the invite below for an exclusive event. RSVP to the email address on the invite (note: space is limited so hurry up!)

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EAT (again): Perilla. We love Top Chef and winner Harold Dieterle has done a lovely job with this nook of a restaurant.

With that busy of a day it’s likely we’ll be spending at least part of the next morning sleeping peacefully before waking up and starting it all over again. It might be the city that never sleeps but a girl needs her beauty rest. I will be in NY again this spring so if anyone has something outstanding or unknown I should try let me know.

 

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Living the High Life

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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Welcome to the High Line

When A + I went to NYC last month, we were lucky to be there at a very exciting time – it was the grand opening weekend of the High Line. What is the High Line you ask? Well let’s go see…(watch this super cute video by Bill Cunningham for the New York Times for a great visual: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/11/fashion/20090712-street-feature/index.html (sorry I could not figure out how to embed it)

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with Bill Cunningham, New York Times Photographer

Last night, my roommate Caren told me that Bill Cunningham featured the High Line in this week’s “On The Street” – a little feature on street fashion that I am in love with on the NYT – and it reminded me that I hadn’t blogged about it yet. Silly me. See Bill is a sweet, gentle man (at least that is what I gather/imagine from his voice) and a stellar fashion photo-journalist. So here is my homage to “On The Street” with Stephanie Schneider (minus the cute bike + nice camera).

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Beginning of the High Line

Line to enter the High Line

The entrance...

On an early June Saturday afternoon we walked over to the Meatpacking District – which looks a little odd in the daylight, having just seen young party pretties teetering on the cobblestones the night before. Our NYC hosts, Megan & John, lead us to the entrance at Gansevoort Street. As you climb the stairs, you arrive atop deserted elevated train tracks which were originally created in the 1930s to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan’s streets. Friends of the High Line, a local nonprofit, formed to preserve the High Line as a monument to New York’s industrial history and to turn it into a public park for Manhattanites to enjoy.

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Landscaped train tracks

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Pretty flowers in a light sprinkle

I must commend the Friends of the High Line on their dedication and vision. The design team was led by James Corner Field Operations, with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, who succeeded in creating a modern, open space rich in history and nature. The park weaves around the old train tracks and is lush with young saplings, flowers and green grasses. It is literally a floating oasis about NYC’s streets. You can sit on wood chaise lounges and enjoy the view of the River and New Jersey across the way. It was full of excited people, checking out this new/old space for the first time.

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The path is a mixture of cement, plants and wood, along the tracks

Keep it wild.

Keep it Wild

The boys with The Standard Hotel behind them

The boys with The Standard Hotel behind

It even makes it way through old buildings, including the Standard Hotel, whose rooms have a great view of the High Line. Another phase is set to open in 2010

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Walking the tracks

Chillin' on the rolling chaise lounges

Chillin' on the rolling chaise lounges

Lounges on rollers

Lounges on rollers

Window to view passing traffic (below)

High Line skyline

That is a window to watch passing traffic below you

That is a window to watch passing traffic below you

I definitely recommend checking out the High Line next time you are in NYC.

* a special p.s. – congrats to megan & john who got engaged on saturday in Central Park! xoxoxoxoxo

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