City Gal On The Go
Enter Central Park at 72nd Street and 5th Avenue, walk a little way, and you’ll end up at Bethesda Terrace, my favorite place in New York. Bethesda Terrace consists of an upper terrace overlooking Bethesda Fountain and the Lake, and a lower terrace lined with sandstone pillars and ornate ceilings. Bethesda Terrace is considered the
Nothing says summer in New York more than a weekend at your very generous friend’s house on the water in Westhampton Beach. Private boat dock. Boating to lunch. Surrounded by rainbows all day! Therapy. Yes. The best kind. Docked the boat for summer drinks at Cowfish in Hampton Bays. Sunset from Westhampton Beach. Beachy walkway
The Lower East Side is my favorite neighborhood when I’m craving a sweet treat. Here are 7 treats you absolutely must try if you’re in the Lower East Side! 1. Bisous Ciao, 101 Stanton @ Orchard/Ludlow. Bisous Ciao specializes in colorful, tasty and trendy macarons. Can’t make it to the Lower East Side? Bisous Ciao
I love when people visit me in New York. It’s the perfect excuse to do all the touristy things I would never do on my own. I’ve wanted to visit the observation deck at Rockefeller Center, known as Top of the Rock, and the weather this weekend was dry and clear. The views of Central
London is one of my favorite cities, having lived there for a bit just over a decade ago. I arrived in London on September 4, 2001 (yup, just a week before 9/11), and experienced a fleeting moment of panic on the plane when the magnitude of my decision to travel abroad finally set in. My
I love the Lower East Side. It’s not a conventionally beautiful neighborhood, but if you open your eyes, there is unconventional beauty all around you. Spraypaint, graffiti, scaffolding – it all creates a character that is distinctively unique to the Lower East Side. As one of Manhattan’s oldest neighborhoods, the Lower East Side is rich
For those of you who aren’t very good at geography, you may not realize just how close Iceland is to the U.S. east coast. It takes roughly the same amount of time to fly from New York to Reykjavik as it does to fly to Los Angeles. It’s an easy weekend trip. We took the
Queensland is Australia’s “Sunshine State.” It’s warm year-round and surrounded by palm trees, rainforests and coral reefs. It’s a little slice of heaven. A few days after arriving in Sydney, I flew solo up Australia’s eastern coast to the hippie resort town of Cairns. As with all of my solo trips, I made sure to
I stumbled upon Cadillac’s Castle soon after moving to New York City a few years ago, when I came to the sad realization that my new studio apartment simply did not have enough closet space to hold all of the clothing, shoes and accessories I had lugged with me from Boston. Cadillac’s, owned by the