{"id":27,"date":"2006-07-18T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T01:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/bastille-day-on-east-60th-street-formidable\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:45:14","slug":"bastille-day-2006-formidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/bastille-day-2006-formidable\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastille Day on East 60th Street  &#8211; Formidable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/bastille-day-new-york.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing of a French Revolutionary \" width=\"251\" height=\"169\" \/>In case you missed the celebration yesterday, <strong>Bastille Day<\/strong> on Manhattan\u2019s East 60th Street in the <a title=\"Travel Guide to Upper East Side, NY\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/new-york\/new-york-travel-guide\/new-york-neighborhoods\/upper-east-side\/\">Upper East Side<\/a> was a superb success!\u00a0 New York Habitat was a leading sponsor of the event this year, which is organized by the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF).<\/p>\n<p>Francophiles interested in <strong>travel to <a title=\"Travel tips about Paris, NY\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/paris\/\">Paris<\/a> and the <a title=\"South of France Travel Guide\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/south-france\/\">South of France<\/a> <\/strong>found complimentary luggage tags, T-shirts, and pens upon visiting our booth, located directly across the street from FIAF. We were delighted to see many of our apartment owners, who stopped by to visit in front of our colorful \u201cfields of lavender banner.\u201d Thanks for saying hello!<\/p>\n<p>Between bites of cr\u00eape and cr\u00e8me brul\u00e9e, <strong>more than 15,000 visitors<\/strong> (according to the FIAF) strolled in the extraordinary sunny weather. Many young ladies were captivated with Pascalito, who sang two sets of French and Brazilian songs, colored by capoeira moves from his native Brazil. An annual favorite are three French Can Can dancers who drew cheers from the crowd with their energetic performance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There was even a p\u00e9tanque game going on in a sandy enclosure between Park and Lexington Avenues!\u00a0 Millions of French people play this casual game, particularly on vacation. [<em>P\u00e9tanque, played with metal balls, is thought to have originated around 1900 in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><strong>New York Habitat is delighted to present<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Mr.\u00a0Abraham Muslin<\/strong> (ticket #2955)<br \/>\n<strong>a free week in one of our Paris apartments!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Muslin was announced as the winner of the daylong raffle and will enjoy\u00a0a free one- week stay in one of our Paris apartments.\u00a0 We were thrilled to partner with <strong>American Airlines<\/strong> to fulfill this travel fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Our indefatigable team answered a lot of questions about <a title=\"Paris VST\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/paris-apartment\/vacation\">short term apartment accommodations in Paris<\/a>. <a title=\"South of France Apartments and Villas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/south-france-apartment.html\">Villas in the South of France <\/a>seemed to be of particular interest to many folks who came by to chat. But just in case you missed the celebration, we still have plenty of <a title=\"Vacation Rentals in the Upper East Side, NY\" href=\"\/new-york-apartment\/vacation\/manhattan\/upper-east-side\">accommodations in the Upper East Side<\/a> as well as <a title=\"Apartments for rent in Manhattan, NY\" href=\"\/new-york-apartment\/furnished\/manhattan\">apartments throughout Manhattan<\/a> so you can enjoy <a title=\"Travel Guide to New York City\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/new-york\/\">New York City<\/a>. We\u2019re already looking forward to next year\u2019s <strong>Bastille Day<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed the celebration yesterday, Bastille Day on Manhattan\u2019s East 60th Street in the Upper East Side was a superb success!\u00a0 New York&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}