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New York, legendary first step into an extravagant country

You feel the energy from the moment you get off the plane
New York

       

       

      • Don't stay in a hotel - here's an alternative to exorbitant cost (the modestly-priced hotels

          typical of Paris are extremely rare) 

       

      • Alternative

       

       

      Thirty minutes by train from mid-Manhattan

      • Hosts : She, a professor of pyschology at Barnard College. He, a consultant on Nigeria who has been decorated by the queen and is Honorary Chief of 14 Niger Delta tribes.

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      • Guides

       

      • A jazz-singer's world, with a New Yorker who also sings in some of Paris's best-known jazz clubs. 

       

      • Creative and marginal residents of Greenwhich Village, by a stand-up comedian who lives there too. He is a also a (fabulous) t-shirt designer, collage artist and coiffeur. Extraordinarily communicative.

       

      • Restaurants 

       

      • For the trendy, we ask a young couple that dines out often. 

       

      • For the exceptionnal, our specialist is the former editor of New York's Michelin Guide.

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      New York / Martine Depuy; home / Carolyn Ristau