April 3, 2008
Connect to Colorado by Grand Central Terminal
The relentless eradication of everything that gives New York character got you down? The Tourism Board of Colorado is here to sweep you off your feet with a hard sell for the Rocky Mountain state at their “Lets Talk Colorado” gallery near Grand Central [317 Madison Ave]. As this photo suggests, here you can marvel at videos of men wandering through desolate landscapes without an abusive cabbie or $81 hamburger in sight.
Open for the rest of April, the gallery is hung with photographs from across Colorado, and you can even take a quick trip there by getting your photo taken in front of a green screen that will insert you into a Colorado backdrop of your choosing. How sweet would it be to come back from lunch with a photo of yourself at the Colorado Springs Lockheed Martin factory?
Each day will have free samples of chocolate, wine, kombucha, tea, toffee, beauty products and other schwag from Colorado companies. And a heads up to avid pamphlet collectors! According to the press release, there will be a “pamphlet distribution area where visitors may collect pamphlets from select interesting CO businesses.” A major score because the state has some of the most pristine pamphlets in the U.S.
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I moved to NY to get away from the Republican, religious oppression of Colorado Springs.
since when are travel agencies called galleries?
i went to school in Boulder, miss those mountains!
Gouda, do you prefer the oppression of the limit radius of which you can travel and polluted air?
even colorado has $81 hamburgers...unless that's code for 'racial diversity'....
I lived in Colorado Springs for 8 years in the 1980s. More recently in Boulder for 15 years. I had a lot of gay friends in Colorado Springs. My favorite restaurant was a lesibian/college student hang-out.
Colorado Springs has always been conservative, but there is a thriving counter-culture community there as well.
I was a freelance writer based in Colorado, but flying into NYC every few weeks, so I know the NYC scene a bit as well.
I've got friends performing at the Colorado tourism event in Madison Square Park today. Check it out if you want to get a bit of Colorado for the day. The state is cool. It's got its pockets of hard core liberalism, and it's pockets of hard core conservatism, and they tend to balance each other out. Over all, we're a state that likes the outdoors, music, and quality of life.