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...