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 […]
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 […]
