On Park Avenue

The Rites of Spring Bloom on Park Avenue

With primavera budding all around us, the first thing New Yorkers yearn for is that earliest warm weekend when everyone goes walking with an air of conviviality and sophistication.  For many, there’s no better rendezvous than the Ferrari Showroom at the corner of 55th Street and Park Avenue on Manhattan’s East Side, where the uptowners meet the midtowners.  Here, all visitors are welcomed to its elegant displays by charming hostesses.  Here are some delightful presents for a loved one–or yourself– to make the spring of 2008 the best spring yet.

Sunglasses to Compliment Your Ride

It may seem like a rite of spring to buy a new pair of sunglasses but drivers should know that sunglasses are a pilot’s essential. In addition to making a fashion statement, the right glasses reduce ambient light levels to enhance comfort.  They also reduce glare that can create blind spots in a driver’s view.   Drivers and passengers alike may expect to find a wide selection of exquisitely crafted occhiali da sole at Ferrari on Park Avenue ($255-$400US).

Open Air Pleasures

While good sense and courtesy demand that one’s smoking pleasure be partaken with consideration for others, spring offers the expanded opportunity of temperate outdoor environments, whether at rest or at speed.  The curatorship of a fine collection of cigars, like the maintenance of fine automobiles, requires a preserve of commensurate value.

The Showroom offers the Rosso Corsa Ferrari  humidor ($950US), which coddles 35 cigars in perfect condition for presentation and personal appreciation.  Tobacco aficionados, like Cigar Advisor, actually recommend owning three humidors; one for super-fine smokes like an Arturo Fuente Hemmingway, one for good quality cigars and one for everyday pleasure. 

Humidors are also employed for aging cigars (about six to eight weeks) to dry and stabilize the tobacco properly.  A bit of aging in this fine humidor can actually turn a great cigar into an exquisite cigar.  But unlike Ferraris, cigars eventually reach their peak and must be smoked.  Ah, the rites of spring!

Capping it Off

For casual outdoor dress, what garment declares your allegiance to the red ponies more than a Ferrari cap?  The generous tifoso will want several of these fine, cotton caps ($35US, each) to toss casually into the lap of every friend and business associate. Ferrari caps are perfect to wear on a country road drive with your friends and family. After all, you’re not the only one who’s been cooped up all winter!