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Apartments and Accommodations in New York, Paris, London and South of France
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New York Habitat Accommodations for the 2008 US Open
We’ve already filled you in on New York Habitat accommodations for the French Open, and as any good tennis fan knows, the Grand Slam event’s next stop is in New York for the US Open. Held each year in Flushing, Queens, the US Open attracts thousands of tennis fans from around the world. This year’s [...]
Sitting by the Dock of the Thames: Canary Wharf, London
At first glance, Canary Wharf may not be what most people associate with London. With the towering, glassy skyscrapers, indoor shopping malls and outdoor seating for the after-work dinner set, this part of the city looks and feels “new”—centuries removed from the usual images of Olde English abbeys and ancestral palaces. Well, New York Habitat [...]
Sun and the City Notting Hill, London
There’s nothing like summer in London. It’s the time for free outdoor events, musical Proms, festivals and theatrical plays in the park. Londoners get a two-month break from umbrellas and all the tourists flock to Oxford Street for—well, no one quite knows why.
Since something is sure to be happening in any part of the city [...]
Top Summer Music Festivals in the South of France: Le Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Summer not only means vacations at the beach; it’s also a great time for music festivals, both indoors and out. Many larger cities in the South of France offer festivals in the summer, highlighting just about every musical genre. In the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at some of the best and letting you [...]
“Les rencontres d’Arles” : discover Camargue and photography
“Les Rencontes d’Arles” is an international event in the South of France. It is one of the older photography festival and one of the most important in the world.
These events were created in 1969 by photographers and people passionate about photography like Clergue, Lemagny, Rouquette and Dieuzaide who each organized summer several expositions, [...]
New York Habitat Catches a Flick at The Paris Film Festival
The Paris Cinema Festival is not held in Cannes; a good reception here does not equal an Oscar nomination and the beach is far, far away. For what the Paris Cinema Festival lacks in glitz, glamour and after-hours parties it makes up for in originality, public inclusion and a laid-back vibe. While Cannes is still [...]
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum: The Crowning Jewel of Cromwell Road
For the last of our three-part series on Cromwell Road’s Museum Mile, the focus is on the vast and varied Victoria & Albert Museum. A stay in a New York Habitat vacation rental in Kensington just wouldn’t be complete without a visit inside its venerable walls.
The V&A is a beautiful building housing acres of artifacts [...]
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City a great place to visit on vacation
From Marcel Duchamp’s famous urinal that shocked traditionalists to the proto street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York City has always embraced the evolution of modern art. It’s no wonder then why New York’s Museum of Modern Art–to the chagrin of the MET–has quickly become the city’s favorite major museum. After all, New York has [...]
Red Clay, Bouncing Balls and the Start of Another Summer in Paris.
As any Parisian will tell you, the start of summer is not marked by the solstice or a spell of hot weather, rather the season is kicked off on the courts of Roland Garros. The French Open is truly a national event, especially when a upstart Frenchman upsets a favorite or a native campion is [...]
Follow the cyclists and experience your own Tour de France courtesy of New York Habitat
Every July, the sports world focuses its eyes on France to witness the longest, toughest, most renowned bicycle race in the world, the Tour de France. This year, the race begins on July 5th in Brittany and will end, as always, down the Champs-Elysees in Paris on July 27th, while the cyclists face the [...]
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