On the first and last nights of Chanukah, everyone gathered at sundown in the deli which remained open to the rest of the neighborhood, and saw many others living there coming into it to say prayers, light a big Menorah, and tell the story of the miracle of Chanukah. There were free sufganiyots, […]
The year I was ten, Chanukah fell during the Christmas vacation that all the schools had, and so I was free to travel deeper into New York City from the outskirts where I lived, and celebrate the holiday with some of my cousins in the Lower East Side neighborhood. They lived in an apartment building […]
It was close to fifteen years ago and my father decided to take us on a trip to NYC. It was going to be me and my younger sister. After getting off of the train, our first stop was going to be the much talked about FAO Schwartz. We got to the store and the […]
One year, my husband and I wanted to do something different to please our teen-aged daughter when Chanukah rolled around again. She was past the age for receiving toys, and she liked to choose her own books from the local New York Public Library. We knew she could most use (and would most appreciate) some […]
The first Chanukah that I spent in New York City was amazing. I met with three other friends who had also recently moved to the city. We decided that because we had not yet found a synagogue and had no money to go home , we would celebrate the holiday differently. We opted to go […]
My best friend and I love walking; we can walk around a city for hours on end and we’re known in our social circle as fast walkers. What better place to walk around in than New York City? Whenever we hang out on the weekends we start off our day at the Starbucks on 7th […]
Happy Thanksgiving from ALLNY.com and the Moments Blog!
My most memorable New York Thanksgiving was the first one I had after moving to the city only a few months prior. This was four years ago, when I had just turned eighteen. My best friend from high school and I were all alone, but together, living in a run-down basement apartment. We decided that […]
