Cyrille Guyot is the story of a guy who discovers New York through his studies, and who, on the flight home, says “I’ll be back”. After traveling for a large group of cosmetic in Asia and Australia, he returned to the “Big Apple” in January 2001: “as I used to say, 20 years closes in New York! There is still an incredible attachment, a visceral relationship with this city that is tough, but great at the same time. »
New York, the city that never sleeps
Today Cyrille has “the holy grail” of any French expatriate in the United States, the Green card. This little piece of paper is the sesame, the ultimate visa: ” I must have had 6 or 7. I pretty much had them all. It’s like military decorations, visas. “In this city where no one is waiting for you, you have to play with your elbows, redouble your perseverance to succeed and the visa, as our Norman would say:” it is the first skimming »
In January 2001, when our Normand put down his suitcases “downtown,” the first shock came from the buildings of Manhattan and especially the Twin Towers which rise up against the blue sky of this city which never sleeps. Then comes the constant noise of “Gotham City”. A noise that will follow Cyrille to the tennis courts of the Flushing Meadow tournament, his first “official match” as a New Yorker spectator. And if Time Square and Central Park are essentials of the New York Tour, Cyrille will prefer the districts of Soho , Tribeca and especially Brooklyn, where he lived for many years: “ from Brooklyn there are magnificent views of Manhattan » Welcome to New York.
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