Manhattan West is an area of Manhattan that even many New Yorkers have yet to discover, and it shows the very best that the US can offer. A total eight-acre development that incorporates Penn Station and runs west to the Hudson. Centrepiece is Magnolia Court, a delightful lush-grass garden, surrounded by one’s favourite stores, Apple, Peloton (two stores, actually) and Whole Foods. As an outer circle, five high-rises house offices and residences. A sixth building, rising only 22 floors, is The Pendry Manhattan West.

Arrive at New York’s Penn Station and expect delightful surprises. First, if this is your first visit this year, you will not recognise the rail station. Penn Station’s arrivals area, the Moynihan Train Hall, opened 1st January 2021. Named in honour of the late Daniel Moynihan, the Senator who first proposed building on the site of the century-old James A. Farley Post Office Building, the gigantic US$1.6 billion glass and steel space is an artwork by architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, SOM.