New York: ups and downtime

Transcript: New York – ups and downtime

Mae: New York City is often refer to sth. asetw. bezeichnen, nennenreferred to as the city that never sleeps. So where does one go to get some downtime? I’m Mae McCreary, Spotlight society editor, and I’m here with Business Spotlight editor-in-chiefChefredakteur(in)editor-in-chief Judith Gilbert. So, Judith, as a native-born New Yorker, can you tell me where you like to go in New York City when you want some peace and quiet? 

Judith: Thank you for having me, Mae, and sure, I have some very favorite spots that I always, always go to whenever I return to the city. I would say first and foremostzuallererst, vor allen Dingenfirst and foremost for me would be The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s not necessarily a quiet place, there’s an awful lot of traffic there, but if you go on days when the crowds are not that present, and I always like to look in the exhibits that are not frequentedvielbesuchtfrequented, and it’s just magical going there and you feel like you’ve got the museum more or less to yourself. The ancient Mesopotamian section or the East Asian section or even some of the rooms of the Impressionists if the time is right. It’s just a special meditative place for me. And that’s one place, and that’s relatively near where my family lives. So that’s… It’s very convenient günstig, bequemconvenient for me. The other place that I like to go to, and it’s been closed for a while, but I believe has reopened, or is reopening relatively soon, is the Frick Museum on 70th Street and Fifth Avenue. It used to be the mansionVilla, Wohnsitzmansion of Henry Clay Frick, a great American industrialist, and it is just exquisite. The art is exquisite, the building is exquisite. But probably, in some ways, the most… really the most relaxing place, the most zenmeditativzen place for me, is the Hayden Planetarium in the American Museum of Natural History. These are places that I always go to, revisit again and again, and the Hayden Planetarium is just wonderful. They have films, really, that are shown in the domeKuppel; hier: Kuppelsaaldome, and there was one in particular, I believe it was called the Dark Universe, and it was mind-blowing (ifml.)überwältigend, umwerfendmind-blowing. It really takes you into the far reachesentlegene Gegend; hier: Außen-, Grenzbereichfar reaches of the universe. And you sit there and lie back and look up at the virtual heavens and you get just the slightest inklingAhnunginkling of how small we are and insignificantunbedeutendinsignificant as a planet and as individuals. And really it’s like nothing else. And for me, those are places that I go to. They are visited by tourists to the city, but they are also for me, as a New Yorker, they are just like no place else. They’re kind of like a second living room to me. 

Mae: Oh, well, thank you. And I’ll have to make sure to visit all of them on my next trip to New York.  

Judith: Great. Well, thank you again for having me.