New York City Moments

Sunset at Brooklyn Bridge

It was May of 2005 and I was with my girlfriend in the United States to attend my brother’s wedding, which was  in Chicago. Before heading off to Chicago, though, we spent four days in New York City—each moment more enjoyable than the next. However, one of the more unforgettable evenings was when we took […]

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Gettin' Hooked on Theater

How else could I have gotten my then boyfriend—current husband—hooked on live theater? Broadway will claim all those who submit! When we first starting traveling to NYC, on various summer vacation trip, we went to see Doug Henning’s Magic show because I knew my husband liked magic and “Oh! Calcutta!” But I wanted to see […]

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Twenty-Five Cents of Happiness

My favorite time in New York City was every Sunday morning, when I would get up and head down to the Battery and the Staten Island Ferry. In the early seventies, I was living in an illegal loft in the SOHO district and money was in short supply…so any entertainment I could find had to […]

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Comedic Genius

Two summers ago I went on a vacation to New York with my family. We stayed for a week and enjoyed many of the sites one might visit while in New York: the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, etc. My favorite part of the trip, though, was when we went to a […]

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New York through the Eyes of a Child

Although I had been to New York many times on business, I had never really seen the city until I arrived in November, 1990, with my seven-year-old niece.  She was assigned to be a special correspondent for the first-ever Barbie Summit, a worldwide conference sponsored by Mattel in New York. Although she was not an […]

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Winning a Trip to the Big Apple

After all of the events leading up to it, I will never forget my favorite moment in New York City… My daughter had won a trip for two to NYC. This included round-trip air fare and a stay of three nights in a top-rated New York hotel. Unfortunately, being from the country in North Carolina, […]

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A Surprise 80th Birthday Party at Junior's

Growing up in Brooklyn, one of the five New York City boroughs, allowed me to take advantage of so much that the city has to offer! My favorite moment has to be the surprise birthday party that I threw for my dad’s 80th birthday back in 1995.  I had it at Junior’s Restaurant and Bakery […]

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Moving to Manhattan

My best friend had gotten accepted to dental school at Columbia Univeristy, and it was time for him to move to New York in August of 2002.  After a very late red-eye flight from Seattle to New York City, we gathered his 10 boxes of belongings and caught a cab from the airport to the […]

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