New York, I am coming again but feel so sad

New York, I am coming again, but I feel so sad... My close friend, my beautiful friend who loved NYC as much as I love it has died in June... And we had so many plans for NYC, for us together in NYC... Now, I am on my own...
I plan to come with my boyfriend, it will be great I believe... But that is a different NYC from one I could feel if my beautiful friend were alive... This time, I dedicate my trip to NYC to her, great friend, and great artist, great person and beloved friend Olga Olja Ivanjicki.

Njujork, dolazim ponovo ali sam veoma tužna... moja bliska prijateljica, moja divna prijateljica koja je volela NYC koliko ga i ja volim, umrla je u junu... A imale smo toliko planova za NYC, za nas zajedno u Njujorku... Sad sam prepuštena sebi...
Planiram da dođem sa momkom, verujem da će biti divno... Ali to je opet drugačiji Njujork od onog koji sam mogla da doživim da je moja divna prijateljica živa... Ovog puta, posvećujem svoje putovanje u NYC njoj, velikom prijatelju, velikom umetniku, divnoj osobi i voljenom drugu Olgi Olji Ivanjicki.

West Side Story

First visit to NYC (June 2007) and a month of preparation. I was to go to NY alone, all by myself and couldn't take a risk to make some mistake... I wanted to do it all by myself. I found few hotels I like online and asked my friend which to choose - Uptown or Downtown. One hotel was near Soho and the other at the Upper West Side. My friend said: "Go downtown, everything is near and it is great - shops, galleries etc". "Ok, she knows the city, she is right", I thought.But, I changed my mind - booked West Side hotel. And, when I came to the City, I was congratulating myself for my intuitive decision. Upper West Side (95th Street) was a great choice. Great part of Manhattan. I really love it! It is a part with old and new buildings, but mostly with great architecture, beautiful streets, with mixed cultures, nations... Looks very human. I felt like home in such unexplained way... Year after, during June 2008 I went to NYC again and in a moment I thought I should try another part of city, but NO, NO, I went back t o 95th street. I couldn't think of changing it and not living in it for few weeks...
Upper West Side is for me the most beautiful part of Manhattan. I don't know what I like most - Broadway, Columbus Avenue, Columbia university neighborhood, Barnard College, West End Avenue or Central Park West... I recommend to everyone.


Prva poseta Njujorku (juna 2007) i mesec dana pripreme. Isla sam u Njujork potpuno sama i nisam smela da rizikujem da napravim bilo kakvu gresku... A i zelela sam da sve organizujem sama. nasla sam na internetu par hotela koji su mi se dopali i priupitala sam prijateljicu koji da izaberem - u gornjem ili donjem delu grada. Jedan hotel bio je blizu Sohoa, a drugi na Aper vest sajdu. Prijateljica mi je rekla: "Idi u Dauntaun, tu ti je sve blizu, sve radnje, galerije, tamo je super." Pomislila sam: "Sigurno ej u pravu, ona ipak poznaje grad". Ali, nisam je poslusala, predomislila sam se. Rezervisala sam hotel na Aper vestu. Kad sam stigla u Njujork, cestitala sam sebi na intuitivnoj odluci. Aper vest sajd (95. ulica) je sjaja izbor. Divan deo Menhetna. Zaista ga i volim! To je deo grada gde ima i novih i starih gradjevina, ali uglavnom divne arhitekture, prelepih ulica, pomesanih kultura, nacija... I deluje veoma humano. Osetila sam se kao kod kuce, na jedan neobjasnjiv nacin... Godinu dana kasnije, tokom juna 2008. trebalo je ponovo da boravim u Njujorku neko vreme i za trenutak sam pomislila da ne bi bilo lose probati i neki drugi deo grada, alil NE, NE, opet sam otisla na 95. ulicu. Nisam mogla ni da mislim o tome da odem i ne zivim tamo par nedelja...
Aper vest sajd (Upper West Side) za mene je najlepsi deo Menhetna. I ne znam sta najvise volim - Brodvej, Kolumbus aveniju, deo oko univerziteta Kolumbija, Bernar koledz, Aveniju vest nd ili Central park vest... Svima preporucujem...