When I was going to high school in New York, my roommate Eric and I would always go to Times Square for New Years Eve to see the ball drop. We lived on the Upper West Side by Columbia and would hit a movie or go music shopping that evening on the Upper West Side. […]
I’ve lived in NYC for a few years, but had typically left for the holidays and spent it with family elsewhere. However, for Christmas 2009, I was engaged! As it was, our wedding date was to be the 28th of December, so my parents just decided to come a few days early so they could […]
I was away at college when I heard John Lennon was shot and killed in New York. On Christmas break my girlfriend and I went back to New York City, where I had grown up – we were doing the “we’re serious now, so I guess we have to meet the parents” routine. We flew […]
Christmas 1965 in New York City, where I lived, was snappy cold and with snow-covered streets. The prestigious Fifth Avenue department store I worked in was an ice palace of crystal decorations covering the ceilings from one end to the other. Despite the beauty of my surroundings, on Christmas Eve I was feeling gloomy. The […]
I had just moved back to New Jersey in 2006 after a long campaign of failure in Pennsylvania. I was back living with my parents and when Christmastime came around that year, I was pretty depressed. My mother had noticed and asked me to come over one morning early to “sort things out”. When I […]
It’s almost a cliché to go to Rockefeller Square on Christmas. But we were in New York over the holiday, and when we looked for a nice place to have dinner that wasn’t too pricey, the Rock Center Café was about the only place still taking reservations on the 24th. We had never been there […]
I have been living in New York City since the last fifteen years but the Christmas of 2006 was easily the best Christmas I have ever celebrated in my life so far. My sister and my brother-in-law also live in NYC; hence, I decided to celebrate with them. We decorated the entire house with ribbons […]
My older sister and I have not lived in the same state for over a decade, and even though we’re close, we rarely get to see each other. A few years, out of the blue, she said that she was going to come visit me in New York for Christmas. At the time she lived […]
There is no better place to be than New York in Christmas. My most recent Christmas in New York was one of the best; we spent it at my mom’s having dinner after opening gifts. The true celebration started two days before. We gathered all of the children and grandchildren together and went ice skating […]
