On November 8, Nelson Robert will return to New York. Which may be trivial for many. But not for the globetrotter guide for whom this city no longer has any secrets.
“I’ve been to New York 700 to 800 times since 1994,” he says. People ask me if I’m tired. I tell them that I know people who play on the same golf course every day. That must be boring! ”
He has not set foot in New York since the start of the global health crisis. However, the guide is kept up to date. Nelson Robert reads the newspapers and calls his contacts. He knows what’s going on in New York. But he didn’t see it with his own eyes.
“What I like about New York, what it’s not an American city,” he explains. It is international. It is magical as a city. Which is not nothing coming from the mouth of a man who has visited 45 different countries.
In Times Square (Photo: courtesy)
Friends everywhere
Nelson Robert is eager to return to New York for tourists. To tell, as he likes to say, what the fly whispered in his ear. “It’s a city with history and culture,” he says. I also have a lot of gossip. People love it. “
He has friends all over town. Whether it is the post from which the first firefighters left during 9/11, the double-decker bus drivers or the doormen of the largest hotels. “Once I was with a group near the tree at Rockefeller Center when a fire truck passed by,” he recalls. The driver sounded the siren and the engineers all said “Hi, Nelson.”
What is also fascinating in New York is the money. During the last quarter, 6000 condos were sold for a value of $ 9.3 billion! Real estate flips are one way to line their pockets out there.
The famous Empire State Building. (Photo: courtesy)
New to see
He does not know when he will be able to accompany a group with Voyages Gendron. But he is preparing and keeping up to date. Equipped with interactive tools, Nelson Robert is eager to see what he has been missing in nearly two years.
“I have a program that has been established for a long time,” he assures us. There are must-sees like the Empire State Building, Times Square, etc. But there are new things I can’t wait to see like Hudson Yards (a neighborhood that will be worth $ 25B), Little Island (a park built on stilts in the shape of a tulip) or the majestic 1, Vanderbilt. The architect has only one limit, he suggests. Money! ”
Strawberry Field, the memorial to John Lennons in Central Park. (Photo: courtesy)
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