Can e-books and iPhone apps beat the guide books on a tour of New York?
Frank Sinatra sang about liking New York in June. How About You – a song on his 1956 album Songs For Swingin’ Lovers – extols the pleasures of window-shopping on Fifth Avenue and enjoying a late supper at the Ritz. New York is still perfect in June, Fifth Avenue continues to be a major shopping street but, sadly, the Ritz referred to in the song is no more. This was the original Ritz-Carlton which stood at the corner of 46th Street and Madison Avenue and the very place that gave us the word ‘ritzy’, the song Puttin’ On The Ritz and Ritz crackers (the cracker makers Nabisco said the name concisely conjured up ‘wealth and glamour’).
