When Rachel from Life Unsweetened asked earlier this week if any of her readers ever play tourist in their own city my answer emphatically, YES! I live in New York City and I love being a tourist, even for, as Thursday evening turned out, 20 minutes on my way to another event. When I saw Naomi of the tremendously popular Love Taza visit the new art installation in Madison Square Park with her littles I knew I had to head over and see it for myself!
It is exactly one mile from my front door to the SE corner of Madison Square Park and as any New Yorker knows, you are welcomed to the quaint area by Shake Shake. I reluctantly sped past the tasty eatery to see Madison Square Park Conservancy’s new installation for Spring and Summer 2013 by New York-based artist Orly Genger. The monumental installation is entitled Red, Yellow and Blue and features over 1.4 million feet of painted hand-knotted nautical rope. Take a look!
The rope exhibit really was spectacular and if you have time to to go see Red, Yellow, and Blue in Madison Square Park I would definitely recommend it and it will be in NYC until it heads to Boston on September 8th!
P.S. I am really excited to announce that next week is going to be the second Past Adventures takeover featuring six of my favorite trips, from the map can you guess where they are?
Friday Five: Shoes & Springtime
An Epic New York City Tourist Day
NYC Wine & Food Festival and a Giveaway
Lian says
wow! amazing photos kelly! love the colorful ropes and the idea is super cool!
have a great day!
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Alyssa says
I love playing tourist in NYC too, Kelly! I was actually in Madison Square Park on Friday for a quick Shake Shack stop before The Great Gatsby, and I saw the installation. I wasn’t expecting it to be so huge!
Cake Couture says
What great pictures! I love NYC! I definitely need to make a trip back there!
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Sonia De Macedo says
Living in NYC how could you not! I don’t think I’d ever sleep, just wandering around the streets and all hehehehe!
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Katie says
that rope thing is so crazy!
Rachel says
Thanks for the shout-out! I feel like there is SO much to do in NYC that you can always be a tourist there no matter how long you’ve lived there!
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Janna Renee says
Wow! I’ve never heard of this. The time and effort it must take…
Melissa Cabrini says
GREAT PICTURES
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Hannah Anderson says
Great post, and the pictures are gorgeous! We should follow each other!
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Amy Shaughnessy says
Wow, this is so cool! I have to admit that I don’t play tourist in my own city. I feel like I have seen everything. I like going to bigger cities like Houston and seeing different things. Dallas and Houston are two of my favorite places to go so each time we go, we try something new.
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Erin says
This is crazy! I’m definitely going to have to go see this.
Color-Block says
wow great post..amazing place and pics..
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Mahnoor Malik says
Amazing post 🙂
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Ira Kharchenko says
I love the pics! So beautiful:)
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Areeba says
Beautiful photos. I am so lame about this travel matters!