In Manhattan, I met Anna Wintour, Fran Lebowitz and the Queen – who reunited Roo with Winnie-the-Pooh
I like New York in spring – how about you? I am writing this on the 26th floor of the Essex House Hotel on Central Park South. It’s a marvellous May morning and the view from my window is spectacular. I am in the Presidential Suite. Apparently, it’s Barack Obama’s favourite when he is in town. And why not? It is spacious and gracious and overlooks Central Park, the first landscaped park in the United States, and the most popular, with 45 million visitors each year. From where I am standing, I can see, through the suite’s powerful telescope, beyond the cherry blossom to Cleopatra’s Needle, the Alice in Wonderland statue and Strawberry Fields – dedicated to the memory of John Lennon, murdered outside the Dakota building in 1980. ‘Yoko Ono still lives there,’ says my friend Harlan Coben, the mega-million-selling thriller writer, who uses the Dakota as his New...
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