I studied at an art school and when I was in New York, I thought it’d be a great opportunity to see so many of the pieces that I had studied. I was in NY in 2005 working in a hostel called Jazz on the Park in the Upper West Side. I wanted to visit […]
New York is so much more than the hustle and bustle of Broadway and Times Square. It’s not too far from Greenwich Village, where you can get the feeling you’re in a small town somewhere in England, the tree-lined streets full of cafes and bars. If it were not for the skyscrapers on the horizon, […]
I remember my first trip to New York City, it was with a college friend of mine in the fall of 2006. I had been before, but not with him. I’d also never ridden the subway, so I took the first subway ride of my life on the 5 line that day. I was surprised […]
I’m originally from Canada, but had never been outside my country before then. I had never gone to Disney World as a kid, or been taken on a cruise. My parents just couldn’t afford it, and that was okay. We’d done some traveling inside Canada, and that was enough for me. My best memory, up […]
New York is like nowhere else. On a cool day in October, while attending a convention at the New York Sheraton next to Carnegie Hall, a close friend and I opted to play hooky from professional meetings and spend a day on the streets of the Big Apple. We rode the subway to Wall Street […]
Like Vinny from the movie, my cousin Chinnah is quite a character. A very affectionate person, he surely leads an eccentric life. He and his charming wife, Isabel, live in a small apartment on West 51st right near Broadway and all sorts of fun stuff to do in New York City. Chinnah and Isabel would […]
It was raining during my first trip to NYC, but even under all the fog and gloomy appearances, the brilliant lights at Times Square were still mesmerizing. My friend and I stopped by a cute NYC cafe, which sold cheesecakes and a variety of drinks. I tried the pink lemonade, which was freshly made, and […]
