I'd seen so many pictures of the Palais-Royal online before visiting Paris, and seeing it in person was such a pleasure. The actual building known as the Palais-Royal was built around 1629 as a palace for royalty - nowadays it houses government offices, a theatre, restaurants, and shops. Besides the amazing architecture of the building

I'd seen so many pictures of the Palais-Royal online before visiting Paris, and seeing it in person was such a pleasure. The actual building known as the Palais-Royal was built around 1629 as a palace for royalty - nowadays it houses government offices, a theatre, restaurants, and shops. Besides the amazing architecture of the building

I'd seen so many pictures of the Palais-Royal online before visiting Paris, and seeing it in person was such a pleasure. The actual building known as the Palais-Royal was built around 1629 as a palace for royalty - nowadays it houses government offices, a theatre, restaurants, and shops. Besides the amazing architecture of the building

I'd seen so many pictures of the Palais-Royal online before visiting Paris, and seeing it in person was such a pleasure. The actual building known as the Palais-Royal was built around 1629 as a palace for royalty - nowadays it houses government offices, a theatre, restaurants, and shops. Besides the amazing architecture of the building

I'd seen so many pictures of the Palais-Royal online before visiting Paris, and seeing it in person was such a pleasure. The actual building known as the Palais-Royal was built around 1629 as a palace for royalty - nowadays it houses government offices, a theatre, restaurants, and shops. Besides the amazing architecture of the building

I'd seen so many pictures of the Palais-Royal online before visiting Paris, and seeing it in person was such a pleasure. The actual building known as the Palais-Royal was built around 1629 as a palace for royalty - nowadays it houses government offices, a theatre, restaurants, and shops. Besides the amazing architecture of the building

One of my absolute favorite, favorite things from our recent trip to Paris was the day I spent with my Mom visiting Giverny (while my sister and dad took off to check out Normandy, a bucket-list item for my dad!). If you're visiting Paris and looking to take a day trip, I can't recommend it highly

One of my absolute favorite, favorite things from our recent trip to Paris was the day I spent with my Mom visiting Giverny (while my sister and dad took off to check out Normandy, a bucket-list item for my dad!). If you're visiting Paris and looking to take a day trip, I can't recommend it highly

I blogged about Carl Schurz Park here, and just wanted to share a few more pictures I snapped back in May. Now I can't wait to capture it in fall, and in the snow! Perhaps a better title for this post would have been "Benches of Carl Schurz Park." :) photos by me

Recently a reader contacted me asking for tips on how to take an inspiration room and recreate the look in their own space, and I thought that was such a great idea for a post! Oftentimes I think people (myself included) look through magazines, Pinterest, blogs, etc., see a room they like, and then...don't know

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Snow in Central Park: Yesterday we finally got some real snow in New York City! It's been quite the dry winter so I think everyone was pretty excited. I walked around Central Park with my camera for a few hours after work and it was as pretty as could be, so I hope you enjoy

I had my last day of photography class on Saturday...kind of sad! On the plus side I'll get to sleep in on Saturdays again, instead of trekking to 46th street in the snow (not exaggerating, it rained or snowed EVERY SINGLE time we had class). While I do still have a TON to learn, I'm

Before I get into today's post - whoa! Did all of you watch Big Little Lies last night? So. Good! I feel like the series got better and better as it went on, and last night's episode was so beautifully shot and amazingly acted, like a movie in itself. Atmospheric and even creepy...just well done.

Whenever I ask what people want to see on the blog (and thank you to all of you who take the time to respond!), New York City coffee shops are always high on the list - and particularly pretty ones. So today I'm excited to bring you possibly the prettiest coffee shop in all of

After seeing Melancholia my sister and I wandered down to Columbus Circle in search of eats. Food trucks in the city are tough-I can never tell whether they're some kind of awesome, unique treat you would see in a magazine (like this one) or your standard not so awesome hot dog stand. Gotta get up close and investigate!

We've rounded up the best rooftop bars in NYC.

Last week I went home to my parent's house on Long Island for the last visit of the summer (time flies!). My Mom and I took a day to head out to Sag Harbor and had such a fun time walking around, relaxing, and perusing a few stores. We checked out Bloom (a charming little shop on Madison

La avenida de los Campos Elíseos puede que sea la calle comercial más famosa de París, ¡pero también cuenta con magnificas cafeterías, restaurantes y teatros! ¡Además, la avenida alberga preciosos monumentos como el Arco del Triunfo, el Petit Palais y más!

Spring in New York City It's been a while since my last Photo Essays post! It's a little too easy to get uninspired during the winter where there doesn't seem to be much to photograph, so I was really looking forward to the spring flowers this year - and they didn't disappoint! It's been extra

I've recently become a big fan of New York based designer Ashley Whittaker, whose aesthetic has been described as neo-traditional- a fresh and modern take on classic design and architecture. I love the colors and textures she incorporates into her work, and the fact that her rooms feel sophisticated but relaxed and not over-decorated. Her spaces don't

A personal review of my stay at Royalton Park Avenue Hotel in New York. Sharing all the details about my room and amenities...

On a walk from North Kilworth to Husband Bosworth along canal

Photographer Stephen Wilkes captures New York turning from day to night.

photo by Gryffindor At the turn of the 20th Century in New York City, wealthy Jewish families – the Guggenheims, the Kahns, the Loebs among them – treaded carefully among their Christian contemporaries. According to Kate Simon in her “Fifth Avenue, A Very Social History,” an unspoken rule was “live and comport yourself at the height of respectability so that ‘they’ might have no handle for criticism.” Therefore, when Jacob Schiff’s son-in-law Felix Warburg began planning his grand French Gothic palace on the corner of 5th Avenue and 92nd Street, a block from Andrew Carnegie’s mansion, Schiff objected. Fearing that the ostentatious style would spur anti-Semitic criticism, he urged Warburg to build in the more restrained Italian Renaissance style. The Warburgs resisted. Felix and Frieda had admired the Francois I style mansion of Isaac and Mary Fletcher designed by C. P. H. Gilbert in 1898. The couple commissioned Gilbert, known as the architect of mansions, to design a similar, larger and grander residence on a plot purchased from Perry Belmont. Following the couple's general design direction, Gilbert also drew inspiration from the Hotel de Cluny in Paris. Begun in 1907 and completed a year later, it dripped with Gothic moldings and boasted ogee-arched windows, steep slate mansard roofs and crocketed gables, tall chimneys and foliate borders, tracery and copper cresting. Unusual in Fifth Avenue mansions, a 50-foot side lawn fronted the avenue. According to Kate Simon, as construction progressed Jacob Schiff’s “gesture of protest was to turn his head away when he passed the growing house on one of his constitutionals.”  the Warburg mansion in 1925 - photo NYPL Collection  The Warburgs’ limestone chateau featured a grand entrance hall with an enormous staircase. On the first floor were a small gallery for the collection of early German and Italian woodcuts and Rembrandt etchings, and the kitchens and pantries. The second floor held a music room overlooking Fifth Avenue with an Aeolian pipe organ and some of the Warburgs’ art collection – tapestries, illuminated manuscripts and sculpture. A stained glass conservatory housed a Botticelli while an adjoining room displayed a Madonna and Child by Raphael and antique Italian paintings. The formal dining room, hung with medieval tapestries was also on this floor. Above were the family rooms: the master bedroom, Frieda’s boudoir and dressing room, and joint sitting rooms for the parents. The fourth floor housed the five children’s bedrooms and the fifth held guest bedrooms and a squash court. A contemporary account said the home was “elaborately fitted out with fine marble work and woodwork which helped to form a fit setting for the extensive and costly decorations, tapestries, furniture and statuary gathered by the banker and his wife from all parts of the world.” Although, according to Edward M. M. Warburg, “Father used to say had he had any idea what kind of family he was going to have he never would have built so formal a house,” Felix reveled in his children. He played squash with them, invented bicycle polo, sang Gilbert and Sullivan tunes in German to them. He told his wife, “Your children may be spoiled, mine are fun.” And indeed the children had fun. A train wound its way throughout the children’s bedrooms and Mrs. Walburg’s china bowl in the entrance hall, meant for receiving calling cards, was a perfect target for spitting contests from the staircase landing above. There were 13 servants living in the house including a nurse and an engineer. The family lived happily at 1109 Fifth Avenue until one-by-one the children married and left. In 1937 Felix died, leaving a legacy of generous philanthropy. Frieda stayed on in the house, kept company by the family of Max Warburg who were driven from Germany by the Hitler regime. Things were changing on upper Fifth Avenue though. On May 3, 1940 Frieda Warburg leased a duplex suite covering two full floors in the apartment building at 1070 5th Avenue. Property taxes on the house, totaling $665,000 a year, coupled with operational expenses and maintenance made sustaining the building infeasible. Within a year she emptied the house, donating the bulk of the rare artwork and furnishings to museums, libraries and universities. Three years later she donated the house to the Jewish Theological Seminary for its Jewish Museum which opened to the public in 1947. In 1963 the side yard was replaced by a new wing. Although in 1970 the museum opposed landmark designation, in 1981 it was unsuccessful and landmark status was awarded. In 1988 designs for an annex by Kevin Roche were approved and the astonishingly seamless addition was completed in 1993, which author Andrew S. Dolkart called “expertly replicated.” In its designation report, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission commented that the “mansion itself is a tangible reminder of one facet of Jewish life in American history, and as such is one of the museum’s most important treasures.”

Convent Avenue Baptist Church, une église à New York à quelques minutes de Harlem, dans le quartier de Hamilton Heights. On peut y voir un gospel unique.