I LOVE New York , and here 's why : At 1 p.m. you can be in an Upper East Side restaurant eating a soy burger and talking about private schools and who 's getting divorced and what the best yoga studio is and thinking there is nothing new under the sun , and an hour later find yourself in a Harlem brownstone dressed in bias-cut silk charmeuse translating the following sentence into bad French for two tourists : Ask for Egypt , and tell her that Princess sent you .