Continued from: Easter Egg Hunt, Central Park, NY NYCity Mama and family made their way across the newly renamed Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, and over to Astoria, Queens (31st Street, which is the first exit). They were hungry, and her boys were getting irritable due to feeling the same. Mama and her husband decided on burgers. Mama loves burgers, but not just any burger. Though there a[...]
Brrrr! It was cloudy, windy, and cold. It seems that this is almost always the weather on the first weekend of April. The only reason NYCity Mama would even know that is because she thinks about what they were about to do on this chilly morning, and wondered why she had never done it before, and she recalled that it was because it was usually a day like today. This is a day when the ol[...]
Sunny. Over 65 degrees. Just by looking out the window, i knew it was hot. The fruit vendors in my Washington Heights neighborhood were out in large numbers. Mangos, papayas, even coconuts where on display for sale today. We decided to head to the East Village for fun. The East Village on a sunny warm day is bustling with people of all kinds. Young, old, students, professionals, arti[...]
We made our way down Flatbush Ave. The day, now completely sunny, was also warmer than I had expected. The traffic in New York is crazy. People are aggressive and always in a hurry. We passed the Greenmarket at Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Park Zoo, and the very many shops and restaurants found along Flatbush Ave. A wrong turn took us over the Brooklyn Bridge again, which was not our pl[...]
Often times we tend to take for granted those things immediately around us. Life becomes so hectic, we really don't have time to notice and then when we do take the time to slow down, we go somewhere else, a place different then where we are every day. Thus, it is not surprising that even those who live in this great New York City often walk around the streets knowing "of" places but not r[...]
"So much to do!" I thought as I looked upon our tiny NYC apartment and at the writing projects flooding in on my computer. I didn't want to spend a sunny day inside, working on projects and cleaning up and I could hear my two toddlers getting on each other's nerves in their room. "Go on time out!" demanded the 3.5 of the 2 year old. "No! You go to time out!" yelled back the 2[...]
After the parade and before making our way home, I decided to scope out a couple of the surrounding neighborhoods in Brooklyn for potential places to live. For weeks now I have wanted to pass by my grandparent's former brownstone, the one I spent so much of my childhood in, and the one I hadn't even passed by since I was 15 years old, on 44th St. across from Sunset Park. Though both of[...]
St. Patrick's Day isn't for another couple of days, but already the sights of green and the festivities surrounding the Holiday began about a week ago in most places. NYC was just starting to really come alive with it all, with Staten Island and Queens being two of many boroughs to first kick off the celebrations with parades and other activities. My family and I decided to venture into[...]
Today was one of those NYC days where I just felt happy. It was sunny, a bit chilly, but not too much, and full of possibilities. Well, everyday is full of possibilities, but sunny days just make the list seem more endless.read more[...]
This has probably been what most people would call a typical day. Nothing extravagant, no special excursions to report. But for someone like me, every single moment, taste, smell, and sound is significant. To many I am a pretty happy person, not too difficult to get close to, personable and friendly. But I discovered my joie de vivre coming out of the sorrow from my mother's passin[...]
