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 Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 10/10/2006 at 10:01:11 AM ET
While I was sorting out some old articles and magazines, I came across this brief article "Best-Loved Places in the City":
“Where does a Broadway Baby go to escape? BERNADETTE PETERS, about to star in a revival of Gypsy, finds refuge in the Conservatory Garden, a six-acre plot in Central Park that features a circle of tiered flower beds, one of which dazzles with more than 20,000 tulips in bloom each spring. "I found it by accident," recalls the curly-haired actress. "I saw these gates and thought, 'Whoa, what's this?' New York can be like that. Suddenly you're a tourist in your own home."
Yet another favorite hangout is Joe Allen's restaurant in the theater district, where posters from Broadway flops hang on the Wall of Shame. "I remember when La Strada went up there," says Peters of the musical version of Fellini's classic movie in which she starred. Decidedly more upscale is the hushed tearoom at Fifth Avenue's Takashimaya, which she calls "incredibly peaceful and beautiful" with its austere interior and elegant floral arrangements. "Here I go again with the flowers, but that's one sure way to get my attention," Peters says. “
Source: Better Homes and Gardens Traditional Home, Holiday 2002
|  moljul
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| posted: 10/10/2006 at 1:58:53 PM ET
I also discovered the Conservatory Garden quite by accident. I now walk by it whenever I walk home from work. Maybe next time I'll look carefully for red curls peeking out from the flowers! 
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 10/10/2006 at 3:45:08 PM ET
Takashimaya sounds beautiful, but I'm afraid if I attempted to enter I'd feel like Pigpen in the old Peanuts strip. Some places are just too rarefied for the hoi polloi.
| futuremamarose87
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5/3/2004 | posted: 10/10/2006 at 4:35:13 PM ET
where in Central Park is the Conservatory Park located? i'm surprised i haven't noticed it... i love wandering Central Park!
"It was like being high when you reach those high notes."
~Bernadette Peters
| moljul
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| posted: 10/10/2006 at 4:39:37 PM ET
It's on the northern end which is why most people don't know about it. If you use the entrance at 5th and 106th, you'll be directly in front of it.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| futuremamarose87
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5/3/2004 | posted: 10/11/2006 at 2:17:07 PM ET
awesome... thank you!
it's true- i'm never up that far when i'm at the park. maybe i'll go next week if there's some nice weather. it's so gross out today.
"It was like being high when you reach those high notes."
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8/14/2003 | posted: 10/11/2006 at 6:23:09 PM ET
Takashimaya is a really neat store, though I usually only hit 1 or 2 of the floors. I've seen the tea room but have never stopped to actually have some while there.
"Let's admit one thing right upfront: With the possible exception of Bernadette Peters, not everyone stays young and cute forever." (NYPost 2/2/05)
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 10/11/2006 at 6:51:55 PM ET
I've had tea there a few times. I don't like tea but I do love the ritual (I've of course had high tea in London and at a resort in West Virginia). We also had some funny kind of desert--don't remember what exactly but it was not pleasing to my Western taste buds.
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