If you are ever asked yourself where you should go for camera and technical equipment, go to B&H Electronics! This store really has it all. Funnily enough, even staff from our camera shop Foto Meyer in Berlin recommended us to go here! The store has an old charm and great service – we went to […]
New York in the 1960s
Saturday was a great day! We got a late start after having some bagels and then took a walk through SoHo along Mulberry, Elizabeth and Mott Street, which all offer gorgeous boutiques with great quality clothes, home goods and other good things, like nice custom build motorcycles parked on the street. We also checked out […]
Making our home our home
Overall Friday was a hectic day – we had to go back to the bank since the clerk was not able to process our request the day before due to “bank internal process delays”. As a result, the money we transferred from Germany was not accessible on Thursday when we originally planned to get certified […]
Our first day of vacation
Now was finally the first day we really took off and enjoyed our vacation without getting anything done. To get a relaxed start to the day we had a Bagel at Black Seed Bagel (a place similar to Tomkins Square Bagel) and then walked through the Financial district to the Staten Island Ferry. We took […]
Shopping in all dimensions
We shipped quite some furniture from Germany to the US but we left a couple of essentials at home, as we knew they would be too big for a New York apartment. So we decided to dedicate the cloudy day to finding some furniture for our new place. Since Alex is really big into motorcycles […]
Signing our lease!
We started off our Monday with a tasty and relaxed breakfast at MUD Cafe in the East Village. During the morning we got the great info that our application for the apartment was accepted and we can get it! We were super happy and had an appointment to sign the lease at 3:00pm. Before, we explored the […]
Apartment hunt #2 – backup & confirming our decision
After we saw the gorgeous apartment in the East Village we definitely decided against the apartment in Dumbo. However, since we were not sure if we would get our favorite apartment (first the application needs to be reviewed and approved by the landlord), we asked Rosemary to do another tour of apartment hunting. We kicked […]
The day we found “home”
Saturday was the first day we kind of „took off“ – late morning we visited one of Alex’s best friends – Fabian – who lives on the Upper West Side. He moved to NYC roughly three years ago. Alex and Fabian basically spent their entire Bachelor and Master studies together. We then made our way […]
Apartment hunt #1
Today we began our apartment hunting sprint! After having our German bread for breakfast and a quick coffee & tea in the neighborhood at Cafe Mogador we had one viewing we scheduled on our own, which was quite a disappointment, quality- and space-wise. We met Rosemary at noon in the East Village and looked at around eight […]
A half-marathon by foot
On our first full day in New York, we wanted to explore a couple of neighborhoods to figure out where we really want to live. We took a walk starting in the East Village and had our first typical American breakfast at Tompkins Square Bagels (an institution in the East Village!). Walking through Greenwich Village, […]