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I’m at Fort Totten in Queens, NY. Behind me is an unfinished fort, started in 1859, built to protect the stretch of water in front of me. 💥 Weapons were becoming more powerful very quickly, and they realized the walls of the fort wouldn’t be strong enough, so the project was abandoned. ✨ We always make mistakes in life. It’s important to realize our mistakes, move past them and find where we can have success.
A modern, real-life MC Escher maze of staircases and repeating hexagons! So breathtaking, at times I felt I was running around it upside-down and sideways. 🎟 Welcome to the hottest new Instagram spot in NYC! It’s called The Vessel at the New Hudson Yards Center and we Instagrammers are their army of publicists. 〽️ You reserve your free entrance online. Tap on the location to see The Vessel in its entirety. I prefer it this way, seeing the little silhouette people along the passageways.
People like NYC for all sorts of reasons but did you know you could sit under 45-foot palm trees and enjoy the sunset through the huge steel and glass wall? 🌴 You’re not in the tropics; you’re in the urban jungle where it costs $16 for two cups of fresh fruit. 😧💳 During this visit, we ate at Eataly, less than a five-minute walk from here. 🍝 Our table had a gorgeous view of One World Trade and the memorial pool (you can see it in our NYC story highlights). Eataly is not so expensive and it is delicious.
This is “fearless girl” standing in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Tourists love to pose with her. 📸 To me, she looks defiant, but the artist doesn’t like this interpretation. He says that his statue is brave, proud and strong, all the qualities of a leader. 💪 Some tourists pose at her side. Others stand facing her, hands on their hips and chests out, just like her. They are challenging her right back. ✨ Despite what the artist says, she is defiant. Sometimes our body language says more than our words. ☝️ Tip for Tourists: The spot was too crowded at 5:30 pm so I went back at 7 pm, and there were about 15-20 tourists, and a professional photographer waiting patiently. He said he was there at midnight a few nights before and there were still tourists at that hour, but fewer.
Red Hook Terminals moves shipping containers all day long. 🏗 ”High and heavy (lolo and roro), OOG or special project cargoes.” 🚢 Every industry has its own special language. We even have one here on Instagram: OOTD IKR LOL Who would have understood that before the Internet age?! 📚 Longtime friends and couples have their own language, too. You know those private references that have so much history behind them that no one else gets it. 👆 So please, DTAL and LAC ✨ (”Double Tap A Like” and “Leave A Comment” 😉👍 ) ✨ Btw, I Googled those shipping terms: - lolo: lift on, lift off - roro: roll on, roll off - OOG: out of gauge
This “candles and melted wax” corner is just one example of Órale Mexican Kitchen’s lively style. 🕯 People snap photos in every corner and take selfies in the bathroom. Even the restaurant’s website says they love when their customers tell friends, “Take a picture of me in front of this!” 🎨👨‍🎤 We live in an age where we entertain each other with the places we go and the things we do, and we inspire each other with the observations we make. 🌍 We connect with people from all over the world, getting to know people we could never have before. 🥂 This post is a tribute to the positive side of social media.

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