Each year, when the crisp autumn leaves fall to the ground, an image of a carefree Meg Ryan sporting a shaggy lob—carrying a pumpkin in one arm and shopping bags in another—circulates the internet. While I have never been so starry-eyed during my walks throughout New York City— usually I’m profusely sweating, dodging someone body slamming me, and avoiding a misstep into dog excrement—this particular moment from 1998’s You’ve Got Mail encompasses the magic of Manhattan as depicted by the late director and screenwriter Nora Ephron, an aspirational, autumnal bubble that oozes optimism and pumpkin spice.
When Harry Met Sally's Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal face off in an autumnal Central Park.
Ephron's New York was always seen through rosy, fall-colored glasses, where unreliable subway systems and requisite garbage piles were replaced with a quirky, cozy city in which the possibilities of romance and a tree-shaded brownstone were endless. It’s a fantasy she may well have conjured up before moving there herself. In a 2009 cover story for New York Magazine, Ephron— who was born in New York but grew up in Beverly Hills—revealed that she knew she was destined to be in New York when she was five years old, calling the time in-between “a horrible intermission.” She writes: “I’d spent those sixteen years imagining what New York was going to be like. I thought it was going to be the most exciting, magical, fraught-with-possibility place that you could ever live in; a place where if you really wanted something, you might be able to get it; a place where I’d be surrounded by people I was dying to be with. And I turned out to be right.”
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Because Ephron is so synonymous with the Big Apple, it’s easy to forget that she was from the West Coast, but that’s a testament to how inherently she knew her particular slice of New York and how to crystallize it—albeit through a privileged, Upper West Side lens featuring personally approved spots. You see it in her journalism, as she waxed poetic for the New Yorker about The Apthrop, the stately Upper West Side apartment building she called home for years, and the cookbook that kicked off her life of schmoozing in the city. And over the years, New York, the way Ephron imagined it, has lived on as an unofficial, yet ever-present character in her films—and in the imaginations of viewers around the world.
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For instance, you can’t mention When Harry Met Sally without referencing Washington Square Park where Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) parted ways upon arriving in New York; Katz’s Deli where Sally delivered the fake orgasm that rocked the world while noshing on a turkey sandwich; Cafe Luxembourg where Harry, Sally, Jess
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As the temperatures fall, so are airfare prices. Frontier Airlines is running its «Full Size Sale», which provides fares as low as $19 to destinations around the United States. Best of all, the flights can be booked five days of the week, whereas previous promotions from Frontier have been more limited in date availability. The sale ends on October 31, 2024 at 11:59pm EST, however tickets can be purchased for travel through February 26, 2025. This makes the sale a great option for travelers and families looking to take a winter getaway, or fly to a destination with warmer temperatures. Travel + Leisure spotted a variety of one-way flight deals including:
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It’s a season of savings for travelers seeking flight deals.Spirit Airlines has dozens of flight deals with one-way fares under $50 to popular destinations including Las Vegas, New York, Orlando, and more. The lowest price spotted in the promotion was just $11, for a flight from Las Vegas, NV to Sacramento, CA. The airline also has a variety of $20 flights including Dallas, TX to Atlanta, or Los Angeles (LAX) to Las Vegas. The deals are listed on the “Popular Flight Deals” within Spirit’s website.
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