Invasion

Just another day’s work. UNGA72.

Outside UNHQ. The time of the year when the whole world lands in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and life, as locals know it, is put on hold for a week. Locals know what they should do by now: keep calm and avoid the area, unless you have business in the UN.

September 20th, 2017

Oscar goes to…

a wildly extravagant, lavishly adorned cabinet of curiosities, bursting with antique and vintage objects collected from all over the world. That marble fireplace? French, 1840s, acquired on Bond St. from Bonhams and Phillips Auctioneers. That Whiskey Bar? Expands around a Player Piano of 1819 and holds over 300 varieties of whiskey. Stained glass from Milan, wallpaper made in Mexico, original wood paneling from Hope Castle in Ireland. See that antique clock on the Irish Writer’s Wall? It’s only one of 26, all set to 1:50, the time of Oscar Wilde’s death.

The cocktails? Sinfully delicious. How poetic that, in an ironic twist of fate, New York City’s ”longest bar” extends on the ground floor of the building that once was the Prohibition Enforcement Headquarters! Mr. Wilde himself, the very embodiment of aestheticism, hedonism, eccentricity and sophisticated debauchery, would have approved.  

Oscar Wilde

September 10th, 2017