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My Life in New York

New York: East Village’s Life Café to close

February 26, 2012 My Life in New York

When the photographer Jackie Dixon & I decided to take a week-long trip to New York over Halloween in 2006, we borrowed our friend Todd Selby’s studio apartment in the East Village — he was shooting in LA, and left us the keys. Jackie knew the city well from her many trips over with British Vogue, […]

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Home for the Holidays

December 23, 2011 My Life in England

Well, it’s 3am, I’ve finished my work, cleaned the kitchen, put the bins out, sorted out my office, wrapped a few of my presents and located my passport for Morocco next week. Tomorrow, well, today I suppose, is Christmas Eve, and I cannot wait for a few days of family, eating, telly and no email. […]

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Yet more packing & unpacking

December 5, 2011 My Life in England

I seem to have given over weeks to foraging in storage containers that I have rented. This time last year I dedicated most of my energy to cleaning out the TWO lockers in Manhattan that I had had since 2009 when I gave up my NYC apartment and moved temporarily to California.

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LLG Travels: Wafels & Dinges Food Truck, New York

November 26, 2011 LLG Food

YUM YUM YUM. I do wish London had food trucks in the way Manhattan has them. When I first moved to New York in 2007, they were just starting to gain in popularity, but now there’s a regular proliferation of them. I’m not talking about those street corner Halal guys, but full on trucks that […]

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LLG Eats: An Choi (Vietnamese) Lower East Side, New York

November 22, 2011 My Life in New York

I am so upset that I spent four years in America and never knew that An Choi on the Lower East Side existed. Wandering in off the street with weird hunger jetlag mid afternoon, I ordered what I promptly re-named the Greedy Special: a small bowl of boiling hot phở chay, (thin rice noodles with […]

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LLG Travels: Community Bookstore, Park Slope Brooklyn

November 21, 2011 American Shops

I spent my last Sunday in New York in Park Slope, Brooklyn with lovely Lola. Good times. After lunch she whisked me smartly to Community Bookstore for book foraging. It’s one of those stores where every book entices, where the edit is so good and clever that to be honest, there was barely a book […]

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LLG Travels: Union Square Greenmarket, Manhattan

November 15, 2011 My Life in New York

Walking back from a meeting on Friday morning with The Gramercy Park Hotel’s publicist (the best kind of meeting -  eating a properly excellent breakfast on the lovely topfloor terrace),

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LLG Travels: Horseriding in Central Park

November 14, 2011 My Life in New York

I walked through Central Park with Judy yesterday afternoon (Saturday), and it reminded me that back in autumn 2007, I was commissioned by The Sunday Times to write a story about horse-riding in Central Park. It was a truly mind-blowing experience not least because, owing to a miscommunication somewhere along the line, instead of a […]

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LLG Travels: Heading to Manhattan

October 31, 2011 LLG Plays & Stays

I haven’t planned a lot of time for breathing or relaxing in Manhattan — I have meetings back to back on most days, and drinks and dinners every night, mainly with work contacts, although many of them blur the line between work and friends. I’m excited tho — I miss New York’s energy and drive […]

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Ground Zero

September 11, 2011 My Life in New York

I wrote this in September 2009: Last year I worked next door to Ground Zero. Each morning I biked down muddy, wet, gravelly Liberty Street from Broadway, past the orange clad construction workers, the new Fire House, and through the mass of spectators who were gathered there at all hours, every day. I would chain […]

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