You know how I was so disappointed to miss being in New York while Boris The Blonde was here? Well, I’m still disappointed to have missed it but I’m feeling ever so much perkier now. Why?
Cause there is a new series of posts starting on his blog that will touch about the similarities, differences and amusing points of reference between New York and London. Oh yes and they will be written by — ME! The first one ‘Gotham Girl comes to London isn’t so much a ‘compare and contrast’ the two cities as it is “Hi! I’ll be your transatlantic tour guide but first I have to get through customs.”
Future topics may or may not include:
- fashion – amighty battle depending on whose fashion we chose to focus on.
- street food – in which I feel there is no real contest but it’s a topic I’m rather hung up on at the moment
- traffic – which readers here will know drives me up the wall since it’s the only place you CAN drive in Manhattan these days
- history – something both cities are steeped in though obviously London had a considerable head start
theater, parks, literature, etc… it might be any number of things. What do YOU all think we should examine through this dual lens?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Mel wrote on Sep 24, 2009 at 9:55 am
How about politics?!
2 Deborah wrote on Sep 24, 2009 at 10:04 am
That’s an interesting idea. And mayoral politics is very much in the NY news these days. We are in the midst of mayoral campaign season – though it’s hard to find any real evidence of it. That have been – um – issues like ‘here today, gone tomorrow term limits’ and massive media buys leaving everyone to ask “what’s the other guy’s name again?”
Still, I wonder how the political priorities of Londoner on the street looking at how their city is run compares to the view of the New Yorker on the street. Hmmm. More food for thought.
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