On Tuesday, I stumbled upon the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy. This is the 80th year of its existence! The celebration usually takes place during the last two weeks of September and honors the patron saint of Naples. This is the second year I’ve gone to the festival. There’s over a million visitors [...]

   As you can probably tell by now, I have a slight infatuation with my friend’s monsterous Elvis painting… Yesterday, I ended up in the back room of the Swiss Institute and behind the thick black curtains, an experimental film of Elvis performing in all his glory was looping on a small screen attached to a [...]

 For the first time ever, I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge with Auntie Nubs on Sunday. It’s one of the oldest suspension bridges and took 13 years to complete! I love that it’s so pedestrian friendly with a special walkway. The walk takes about 20 minutes and I think the perspective of looking off into [...]

  Auntie Nubs took this photo of me the other day at our hotel in Chelsea. I don’t think I even realized that she was taking it and that’s what I like most– the imperfection. I’m missing a sock, my laptop cord is tangled, everything is a little off. And, that’s reality. Being a Virgo, [...]

The weather has been a little bit crazy this past week; the day after my birthday on the 14th, the temperature dropped about 30 degrees and I think that contributed to me getting sick. The nights have been feeling Fall-like, but the days have been creeping back into the 80s. Hence, wearing light laters has [...]

Yesterday I spent the morning in the East Village and the Lower East Side. The East Village is still by far my favorite part of the city. It’s definitely losing some of its grit and charm as big businesses move in and glass condos sneak into the blocks, but I still adore the tiny shops, [...]

   This year for my birthday, Lee Z. surprised me with a new logo and a pile of stickers he’d printed! (Yes, that’s an actual scan of the sticker above!) Logo designs can be exhorbitant, so I was super excited to get such a practical, thoughtful gift. I love the retro feel and the curvy [...]

On Sunday night, Bianca made me dinner (!) and invited me out to Byte at the Delancey on the Lower East Side, which is a monthly party best described as ‘New York’s synthi-sexy monthly.’ What a mouthful! It was by far one of the best parties I’ve been to in Manhattan.      The $5.00 admission [...]

The last few days have been a blur. I’ve experienced so many new areas of the city, but there is much more to still explore. Auntie Nubs is leaving, so I’m having a slumber party in the hotel room here in Chelsea tomorrow night! Making new friends and visiting old ones has been a blast; [...]

It goes without saying that my 26th birthday on Friday night was the best by far. To say the night was epic might be an understatement; the adventures and debauchery lasted until past 5 a.m.! Walking to the subway that night, the dark skyline glowed from the lights on the Empire State:    After joining [...]