hey guys!
today a boring post, but I thought some of you might be interested! i'm gonna tell you about new york city. you have to know that first of all it's divided in 5 borough: bronx, queens, brooklyn, staten island and manhattan. manhattan is like the real new york and the other ones are the suburbs. like seen on the picture underneath:
manhattan has horizontal streets and vertical avenues almost all over. i mean well downtown there are diagonal streets with names and more on the coasts, but over most manhattan, the streets and avenues are well parallel one to each other. and it's really easy to find yourself because every corner is indicated by a sign (like you can see a bit on that horrible picture of me below) and the streets go from first street to one-hundred-something-th street and avenue go from avenue c, b, a then first avenue to eight avenue. numbers go from right to left for the avenues and from the bottom to the top for the streets. so i live on 7b myself for example, which shows i'm on the east side of the city and downtown.
they also have divided manhattan in 5 parts: downtown, midtown, uptown, harlem and washington heights. but it's not really well respected as if you're in harlem and want to go to washington heights, you'll say you're going uptown! quite complicated i know!
fifth avenue dividing the island in two, we'll talk about living on the east side or the west side. my address is therefore east 7th street. which makes everything so simple. no a to z needed!!! but there's a diagonal avenue also crossing most of manhattan, and i'm sure you've heard of it: broadway.
manhattan is also divided in areas: the financial district (with the world trade center), chinatown, tribeca, soho (which is not the gay part like in london, but just means south houston street and shows the beginning of the streets having numbers and no more names), lower east side, west village, east village (where i live), chelsea, murray hill, gramercy, hell's kitchen or midtown west, midtown east, upper west side and upper east side. easy, innit?
i have met a few english people lately and that's so nice and that confirms what i said in my last post, i'll definitely be back in london! miss it so much! feeling rather home sick at the moment!
thanx for your comments, nina i translated fred's comment for you and fred don't worry i'll be back very soon and that'll go quick!
mwah!!! love you!!!
4 comments:
Hello, glad to get some fresh news from you!
Very interesting your "a bit of geography" post because.. I just bought my tickets for NYC!! I'm so happy you'll still be there in May, its gonna be so much fun, isn't it? I can't wait to see New York and YOU of course. Its cool that you miss London a bit, it shows you haven't forgotten about us...
Thinking about you, take care xxx
Hi Ya !!!
What a surprise that you're not considering me as one of ur friends. Anyway i'm not that shallow to take it personally.
I finally decided to post some little words for you.
I'm glad everything is fine for you and that u live in a descent room.
It's a bit weird not having u here anymore. U know everybody at work ask me for some news about you. And obviously, i am able to answer them CAUSE I'M AWARE ON WHAT IS ON UR BLOG !! lol ;-)
BTW The spice girls pix ...So H.O.T !!! Epecially the posh one.
So ur not coming soon. What a Pity !!!! I don't know when you will be back here, but i will may be in france by that time.
Anyway, For me evrything is fine here! still single u know as usual.
Take care of Urself
I enjoy ya, appreciate ya and i love ya !!!
XXX to U and MC if u catch her cause she ll be soon all around NYC promoting her new album.
PS : Ur American accent is a bit ... W.H.A.T.E.V.A ... lol !!!! You know what?? Your english accent suits U Better my Darrrrrrling !!!
Bisous
Hervé
Coucou! Bon tout va bien apparemment, c'est cool!tu travailles + maintenant?Au niveau des tunes, ça le fait?
Merci pour la traduction du comment de Fredo! Oui en effet, il était facile de te retrouver sur les photos!!Tu as la bouche grande ouverte sur une et sur l'autre tu prends une photo... :-)
Merci pour les leçons de géo,c'est intéressant mais c'est sûr qu'on ne retiendra pas tout, d'ailleurs à la fin, j'ai décroché, ça devenait trop compliqué!!!
Clair part aux sports d'hiver ce soir avec ses anciens collègues...Et cèc' n'a pas encore accouché, c'est pour le 1er avril, plus qu'une semaine ou moins!
Damien et Aurélia ne vont pas tarder à rentrer de leur voyage de noces, ils faisaient la croisière sur le Nil...
Ah oui, 2 scoops aussi : Olivier et Dada ont une copine!on les a rencontré une fois chacune.Reste JP mais ce n'est pas dans ses projets :-)
Voilà les news,
Gros bisous
NINA xxx
Kikou loulou,
Thanks a lot for your interesting and long geography lesson.
I'm glad to see that you did get my message you know me to well sorry Nina.I can't see you are till loving NY and more you are 'incollable' on geography (where did you get the lesson wikipedia...)
Well hope your job is ok can't wait to hear again from you.
Mouahhhh
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