I love NY!

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PHOTO BY CRISTINA GARCIA-NY

Retrospectiva (2005)!

IN EAST VILLAGE

Fotografia de Cristina Garcia- em NY

My dream didn´t come true!

BUT I FOLLOW FROM PORTUGAL IN BLOGHER 07 IN SECOND LIFE *

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May not be best way to turnover of mom-and-pop grocers and fish markets into new restaurants!

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Photographs by Robert Wright for The New York Times

« SCENIC SHAKE-UP Some residents believe the Smith Street area, Brooklyn’s equivalent of the West Village, is now changing into the bustle of the Lower East Side.

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The unpretentious little stretch of Smith Street, from Atlantic Avenue to Carroll Street, overlapping with Boerum Hill to the north and east, Cobble Hill to the west and Carroll Gardens to the south — some call it BoCoCa — seems to be evolving at a pace that is unparalleled, at least in Brooklyn, with a monthly turnover of mom-and-pop grocers and fish markets into new restaurants, shops and condos.

Despite the neighborhood’s predilection for remaining under the radar, compared with more-famous borough destinations like Park Slope or Williamsburg, the cost of opening a store along this stretch of Smith Street can now be twice as high as in those neighborhoods, said Faith Hope Consolo, chairwoman of the retail leasing and sales division of Prudential Douglas Elliman. Stores that rented for $50 to $75 a square foot earlier this year now are $100 or more, she said, “and by year end it will be closer to $125 to $135 per square foot.”

The week before Lucky Brand Jeans opened its whitewashed store, lined with photographs of rock stars like Jimi Hendrix, Trader Joe’s, the upscale supermarket, announced that it was taking over a former bank on the nearby corner of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street. This spring, at Smith and Wyckoff Streets, a dollar store that once enjoyed a thriving trade in beach towels bearing the Puerto Rican flag was replaced by a Starbucks. Last year saw the arrival of American Apparel (...)» IN THE NEW YORK TIMES - 26.07.07

Saudades de NY! (2)

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PHOTO BY CRISTINA GARCIA, in New York

Saudades de NY!

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Photo by Cristina Garcia- NY

O meu jardim preferido!

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JARDIM DAS AMOREIRAS-LISBOA
FOTOGRAFIA DE CRISTINA GARCIA

Leitura interessante!

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Photographys by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
The front door of Emily Prager's house in Shanghai


«At Home Abroad
Settling Down in a City in Motion

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I left Manhattan a year ago, after a lifetime there. I was annoyed at spending $20 for a hamburger, depressed by designer boutiques on Bleecker Street, weary of the hovering specter of Al Qaeda and still grieving over the demise of the Thalia. I was getting old waiting for the real estate bubble to burst and the city to regain its vibrancy. I decided to move myself and my 12-year-old daughter, Lulu — whom I had adopted as a baby in China — from the old capital of the world to the new: to make a home in Shanghai, a city of the future.
I knew something about Shanghai, having been here on trips several times in the last few years. The city was always so excited it could hardly contain itself. It is a microcosm of the Asian boom, stuffed with people giddy on hope and thrilled to be changing. It recalls the greatness of New York in the early ’70s, except for one thing: Like the rest of China, Shanghai was largely closed to the outside world, and real economic growth, for nearly 50 years after World War II. It is a place where every car on the road is brand new and every pet recently acquired, but the person you just met might trace his family back 70 generations. The modernity and polish that Manhattan learned between 1945 and 1995, Shanghai is cramming for as fast as it can, and it’s fascinating to watch.
But visiting a city is one thing; making a home in it is quite another. (...)»in THE NEW YORK TIMES- 19.07.07

Momentos difíceis em Nova Iorque!

PHOTO IN GOTHAMIST

«A steam explosion occurred on East 41st and Lexington Avenue (41st between Lex and Third) just before 6PM - right during the evening rush hour. The NYPD does not think it was a terrorist attack. It appears that there is a hole about 25' in diameter with a red tow truck in the center. One person has died (possibly from cardiac arrest) and there are at least 15 people injured. It is a six-alarm situation for the FDNY, which includes 24 engines and 13 ladders.» in Gothamist, 19.07.07

O meu olhar!

FOTOGRAFIA DE CRISTINA GARCIA
JARDIM DAS AMOREIRAS, EM LISBOA

Eu gosto!

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BURJ DUBAI

«The Burj Dubai will be the world's tallest building when it opens in 2009. Its shape is inspired by the indigenous desert flowers that often appear as decorative patterns in Islamic architecture, but it also has an engineering purpose: The swirl shape ensures that the mass of the structure lessens as it reaches the top, making the structure steadier. A mixed-use building developed by Dubai's Emaar Properties, the Burj Dubai will house shops, offices, residences, and entertainment venues. Skidmore, Owings & Merril».

Era já a seguir!

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Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years June 3–September 10, 2007
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, first floor
Contemporary Galleries, second floor
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Galleries, sixth floor

The exhibition is organized by Kynaston McShine, Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, and Lynne Cooke, Curator, Dia Art Foundation.

E nós por cá?

« New bike racks were installed outside an entrance to the Bedford L station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

(Photo: New York City Department of Transportation)

The new bike racks have been installed at the Bedford Avenue L subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As the Dept. of Transportation announces in today's press release, "The facility marks the first time car parking spaces have been removed to accommodate bicycle parking in New York City."

DOT extended a 76-foot section of the sidewalk by five feet and installed nine new bike racks to provide parking for more than 30 bikes. Demand for bicycle parking is high in the area around the Bedford Avenue subway stop and it has been the scene of frequent NYPD bike seizures.» in CITY ROOM(Blogs-Nytimes)- 12.07.07

Relembrar!

Fotografia de Cristina Garcia- Jardim de S.Pedro de Alcântara, em Lisboa, 2005

Genial!

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Projecto da futura Biblioteca Nacional da República Checa

Homenagem ao meu avô!

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Fotografia de Cristina Garcia, no Porto de Lisboa ( junto à Estação de Santa Apolónia)

Faz hoje 100 anos, nascia o meu avô Garcia!Um lisboeta...

Great one!

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PHOTO BY i'mjustsayin - in flickR
NYC Fireworks: July 4,

I would like to go swimming!

PHOTO in The New York Times

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Jonathan Kirschenfeld, the architect of the pool in a barge, was helping with construction details

The Floating Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach opening today!

Leitura interessante!

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« Mr. Olin’s Neighborhood

By Trey Popp
Project photos courtesy the Olin Partnership

Sitting at the head of a long table in his office library, half the white whiskers of his close-cropped beard aglow in a stream of mid-morning light, Laurie Olin is having a moment of doubt. It’s something of an unlikely setting. The mere act of walking to the window might be enough to shake him out of it, for the new vision of Philadelphia’s Independence Mall taking shape 11 stories below is just the latest reason to make a man of his accomplishment feel cocksure. But the world-renowned landscape architect and professor in the School of Design stays put. He wants to talk about humility .

“There is a kind of melancholy that people don’t talk about,” he says slowly, “that thoughtful landscape architects I think possess, and that is the sense that some things will be lost or you might make a mistake. It’s the question of change. How to help the world so that the changes are productive and make it richer.”(...).» in THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE- July-Aug 2007.

I love NY (8)

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Photo by Cristina Garcia, Central Park, NY

Retrospectiva (2005)!

FOTOGRAFIA DE CRISTINA GARCIA, NY

In my opinion, it’s a bad thing when they close these shops to replace by hip boutiques and voguish restaurants!

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Customers waited behind a display of hand-rolled rugelach on the last day of business at Gertel’s on June 22. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

« No More Babka? There Goes the Neighborhood
By Joseph Berger

Gertel’s, the legendary bakery on Hester Street on the Lower East Side known for its Jewish treats like rugelach, babka and marble cake, has closed its doors.
The closing is one more change in a string of changes on the historic Lower East Side, where hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Russia, Poland, Romania and Italy established their foothold in America and set up hundreds of dry goods and food shops that until recent years gave the area a characteristic pungency. But those shops are being replaced by hip boutiques and voguish restaurants, and only a few survivors, like the Russ & Daughters appetizing store and Katz’s Delicatessen, are left(...)» in City Room - The New York Times (NY/Region), 02.07.07

A minha Lisboa (4)!

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Fotografia de Cristina Garcia, Chiado, em Lisboa