Hidden Oases
Known for its skyscrapers, heavy traffic and crowded streets, New York City is hardly recognized as calming. But take a walk down its side streets and you’ll enter a city of hidden oases. Let us guide you to some of these unique hideaways:
Chess Havens
The city is full of places where you can sit down, relax, and compete with your fellow chess players. Whether at Washington Square Park or The Village Chess Shop on Thompson Street, beginner and professional alike can follow in Grand Master Bobby Fischer’s footsteps, whose victories made NYC the focus point for chess in America.
Coney Island
Once renowned as “the world’s playground”, Coney Island is quickly gaining attention as a “honky-tonk” amusement park. Don’t expect Coney Island to be a typical amusement park, as people that know it, know that they keep it “old school”. Mayor of Coney Island and Yale Graduate, Dick Zigun, says they often misspell words when they paint signs to keep that “homemade” feel.
The Flower District
Along West 28th Street lies a blissful community of flower and plant boutiques. With the prestige of being one of the last specialty commercial districts left in the city, the flower district, known to native New Yorkers as “The Market”, is a great place to break from the hustle and bustle of the city and take a second to stop and smell the roses.
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