I’ll bet he does yoga…..

In the summer when the temperature reaches 90 degrees plus, New York City comes into its own.. as a place of unbearable, unremitting humidity, delicious insanity and occasionally and somewhat incongruously, a haven of pastoral serenity…..

Fishing and Mac’n’cheese in Central Park…

abandoned easel and paints….

Melting Statue of Liberty….

Even the all time greats sometimes can’t make it here… Le Caprice RIP..

Barneys new vast shoe emporium…very cool in more ways than one..

Macaron stop at airconditioned Laduree.… on Madison

is 45rpm the coolest store in Manhattan/on the planet…? I think it might be…..

JD Salinger‘s The Catcher In The Rye...on sale at The Strand bookshop on 5th at 61st, the book with the chilliest  Central Park references….remember how Holden‘s hair begins to freeze at the duck pond?

If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know this was Central Park – right?-

To find this tiny and very beautiful lake take the entrance at around 60th and Central Park South and head west along the bottom of the park…..