New York City is known for being an incredibly expensive city.
But even in 2018, you can still get 10 NYC postcards for a dollar.
Shocking, right? How is anything still this cheap?
A lot has changed in the 10 years I’ve lived in NYC. But inflation hasn’t touched the dollar slice or souvenir snail mail markets. Read More
Did you know that for 16 summers, people gather in the middle of New York City to practice yoga? Right out in the open, for all the world to see?
Bryant Park offers free yoga classes every Tuesday morning and Thursday evening all summer long. It’s really a sight to see hundreds of people (mostly women, but all are welcome!) moving in sun salutations together on the giant lawn, under the watchful eye of multiple yoga instructors and the Empire State Building. Read More
Originally posted June 2014. It’s been a while but this time of year
still makes me think of the summers mentioned in this post!
Normally, this is the day when rehearsals for my summer theatre job begin. Actually, they began this morning, around when I started writing this post. But I’m not there! This summer I made the choice to stay in the city, for the first time in four years. I’m positively giddy about the prospects of this, as you know. Still, I’m a little sad, a little nostalgic today, missing a home away from home and fellow actors who are like family.
Now, I should tell you, this was not your typical summer stock job. No.
I worked at a Renaissance Festival all these years.
Can you believe it? It’s so not cliché!
Yar! It’s true! Oops, did I just say “yar”? Typical. For four fantastic years I played the part of a piratess. I created the character myself, so she plays to all my strengths. I’d describe her as a delightful paradox of cruelly piratical and ridiculously silly. Her name is “Consequence Wailes”.
Here she is! Consequence is kinda like me, if I was blood-thirsty, mad charismatic, & born in 1562. Read More
If you walk through the East Village in the morning, while the neighborhood is still waking up, you’ll see art that disappears the minute businesses open.
Every Friday I feature some fleeting moments from my week that made me stop and think, “I’m so lucky to live in NYC!” And maybe some that made me think, “Bahaha this city is ridiculous and I love it.” Here we go for the first week of June…
I don’t know what it is about June but I saw MULTIPLE Christmas trees out on curbs this week! Where New Yorkers so worried winter might return again that they kept these extreme fire hazards through Memorial Day, the unofficial kick off of summer!? I am baffled and disgusted. Read More
I’m starting to feel like the Triborough Bridge. I’m stretched between three boroughs. I live in Brooklyn, I work in Manhattan, and my boyfriend lives in Queens. Add hour plus commutes to that equation and it’s silly how little I am in Brooklyn. The only things I ever do here are sleeping and blogging. I don’t think I’m going to last too much longer in this triborough life…but while I’m still here I vow to at least have some Brooklyn adventures!
I live 10 minutes from Prospect Park and it took me 6 months to have a day where I (sort) properly explored it…
Sex and the City premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998. That’s 20 years ago today! How has it possibly been that long? It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the show and that its cosmopolitan fairytale influenced my own romance with NYC. Before moving to NYC (10 years ago, I’m exactly 1 decade younger), I tried to convince myself the reality would be nothing like the show. I wanted to be realistic (like Miranda) and not set myself up for failure.
The funny thing is, much of the show is very much based on actual New York City life. In the past ten years I’ve many moments that made me think, “this is like an episode of Sex and the City!” In honor of the 20th anniversary, below are 20 such stories.
