Here & There

Love you Brooklyn. We will miss you always…

Tonight is our farewell gathering at this comfy bar/rest on Grand St. We are looking forward to seeing all our nyc peeps. It is going to be a Brooklyn night, no doubt.
Funny thing happens when you move to the hoods outside the city. After a few years of doing the Manhattan thing, you start hanging [...]

Last weekend D and I headed into Manhattan to enjoy one of our last Sundays in New York City. It was one of those perfect autumn days and it felt like the city was saying farewell by giving us such a beautiful sunny day. Thanks NY!

As the last week in Brooklyn approaches, I decided to compile a list of my favorite places in Greenpoint. We have lived in this neighborhood for the last 5 years and like so many other Brooklyn hoods, it has gone through the usual local-to-artist-to-hipster-to-yuppie change. Greenpoint used to be an outpost from busy Williamsburg [...]

NYC is a tough place to live.
It all started with a teeeeeeny room in the UES where I lived with a 90 year old Hungarian writer and 3 other girls. I should add that this was a 2 bedroom apartment, so I am pretty sure I was sleeping in the writer’s walk-in closet (I never [...]

New York City has been my home since January 31st, 2001. In two weeks D and I are leaving this city in search of a new adventure. Hence the need to pile up as much information as I can for the next 14 days. We’ll see what happens…