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New York: a trip of a lifetime

[Guest post by Anna Cottone in New York City]
  April and May are the best to visit New York. This year, at the age of 70, I have realized, along with my two daughters, the dream that I have caressed for so long. Before starting a trip I read books and stories, study a bit of history, look at maps. Before I left my home in Palermo, Sicily, I studied the location of the neighborhoods: Chelsea, Tribeca, Greenwich Village, Upper West Side, Upper East Side.

When I got there, I immediately fell in love with the skyscrapers. From the Empire State Building (see at the beginning), the skyscrapers next to it hypnotizes my look that seeks to distinguish places that have already been visited. From there, one perceives the size of Manhattan, where the bridges link it to the other districts. From there, flying like Batman or Superman, flowered terraces of buildings with shiny surfaces mirror sunlight at sunset.

But as there is a city exploding above, there is another that is sinking into the subsoil. It is the one from the subway lines that we took every day, an underground city full of humanity and stories. Underground finds its completeness and its reason in Ground Zero, the area of ​​the great tragedy that struck the city in 2001. It was the first stop of our tribute to the city.

In silence we approached the two large tanks and read the incised names, visited the memorial, and heard the voices of witnesses, of relatives and of friends. And like 16 years ago (while I was watching, helpless and in dismay at the scenes that flowed into an unreal silence on television), I fully relived the tragedy of this city, which the two great wounds in the ground testify.

The Statue of Liberty guards the city from small Liberty Island. It welcomes us on a windy day among thousands of tourists who are photographed under the big statue with the fist of the raised hand. It represents the American dream that has welcomed emigrants from all over the world even Sicilians, like us. On the boat, the scenery south of Manhattan is breathtaking.

It is not possible to go to New York and not to visit Central Park. How many movies have I seen in the park, how many images come back to memory? It seems to me as if I had always lived in this city.

We would live for seven days on Manhattan Avenue, in the Harlem district, north of Central Park.

We walk from Harlem to the Guggenheim. I feel welcome. The Guggenheim envelops me with its elegant spirals and projects me into the art of avant-garde, Kandinsky, Chagall, Klee, Picasso, Brancusi.

On the third day a torrential rain moves us into museums. The Natural History and the Met both face the central area of ​​Central Park. The giant dinosaur skeletons of the Museum of Natural History teach me about our evolutionary history.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the richest museums I have ever visited. Of course it is impossible to see it in a few hours, but two or three halls, I was able to taste it. I stopped to draw The Temple of Dendur and the temporary exhibit of Japanese designer Almet Rei Kawakubo.

We dedicated one day to Brooklyn and its bridge. That long walk in the May sun, with the blue river, the skyscrapers in the background, I will not forget. The iron architecture of this bridge allows an elevated pedestrian crossing and car crossings below. A crowd of tourists travel across it on foot and on bicycle. Everyone, I think, has a happy look. They are living a myth. And perhaps visiting New York generally gives the same feeling to happiness, because here is the myth of modernity.

Anna Cottone is an architect, industrial designer, writer and illustrator from Palermo, Italy. Learn more about her work on this website and her Facebook page.

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