To me, summer in New York City always meant Central Park, specifically the vintage carousel with its lovely calliope music. On Sundays during the summer, my roommate and I would stroll from the Upper East Side, where we lived, to the Eighty Sixth Street entrance of the park and make our way to a small […]
Cinco de Mayo is always a day of wild parties no matter where you are, but I can tell you that New York City is definitely the best place to celebrate. If you like to drink, you can pay a standard fee of $15 dollars and participate in the NYC Bar Crawl. Dozens of bars […]
Cinco de Mayo is a national holiday in the United States of America on 5th May in order to commemorate the unexpected victory of the Mexican army over the French army in a battle fought in 1862. Generally, I prefer to celebrate this holiday by simply relaxing at home with my family. However, last year […]
As there was a nullification of nationality and ethnicity on this day, a major noticeable alteration in common societal norms became evident. The removal of race prejudice unfortunately needs to be glorified, but being that there was no racism, the normal social hierarchy wasn’t used as a critiquing tool. There was one specific instant that […]
There is nothing like Saint Patrick’s Day in New York City. Growing up in the local vicinity of New York City my entire life I have heard crazy stories about drunken arrests, violent actions, lewd behavior. Everything you could expect out a melting pot of diverse cultures and race, getting inebriated and celebrating the evolved […]
Every year the gang and I head to New York. We live right outside of the city so we may as well be from there. One of our friends opened a pub a few years ago, The Bitter Pub. It’s on 170 Avenue A. Once we get there, we set up the music, lots of […]
It started out on a cool afternoon about five years ago. I had just purchased a Shamrock Shake at the local McDonald’s. I decided to take a stroll over to Central Park to enjoy the weather and festivities. There were a good number of people outside due to it being warmer than the usual early […]
Let’s see, my first St. Patty’s Day I spent in New York City was definitely a memorable one. Although I wasn’t actually twenty one at the time, a few friends and I had our bars which we had made ourselves “regulars” at during the week. One in particular I spent a lot of time at […]
I was an awkward kid attending a private catholic High School and of course a member of the band. At least I was a member of a somewhat respectable (if there is such a thing) portion of the band, the drum corps. During my senior year it was announced that we would be marching in […]
