lower east home

New yorkers tend to define themselves by the neighborhoods in which they live. Just like you are what you eat, you are where you live in new york.  You can tell a lot about someone when you find out where they live in the city.  Upper East and West Siders are safe and have the [...]

balls in the hood

Meatballs have rolled in to the LES.  The Meatball Shop is the best addition to the LES since…me : ) Balls galore.  I love this place. ♥ Their menu is interactive…they give you a handy marker and let you go to town on checking off your preferred type of meat, sauce, what you’d like them [...]

street art

The crossword lover in me loves this tile on Greene street in soho. The island I’m frequently stuck on – in the middle of the Bowery.

pony up, punk

A little pocket of charm on Ludlow Street, The Pink Pony is always a solid choice for an afternoon hangout or dinner spot. The ambiance is welcoming – and stands out on gritty Ludlow Street as a warm and enchanting french bistro that just draws you in.  Endearing and romantic if you want it to [...]

sweetness

After my run this morning, I treated my buns to a skinny bun from baby cakes, one of my favorite bakeries in the city. Baby cakes is a cute little nook of sweetness on broome street in the LES, and as it’s vegan, it offers treats that are all-natural, organic, and allergy free…which is what [...]

bee healthy

I’ll admit, over the past year, my exercise regimen took a back seat – I actually put it in the trunk and didn’t open the trunk until recently.   I used to run every day, at least 5 miles.  I would love to get up early in the morning, zip out to the reservoir, see [...]

311

Ah neighbors…how I love thee. When I lived in Newport Beach, Dennis Rodman was my neighbor, and he would throw the most wild parties, as you’d expect.  He would gallivant around town in his huge SUVs with naked women airbrushed on them, he’d blow his spectacle of a yacht called sexual chocolate through the harbor [...]

santa santos

Last night I hit up santos – one of the best venues to see live music in the city.  Owned by Andrew W.K., it is definitely the party house…with it’s two levels – the lower level offering sunken nooks so that you can be up to no good, and the main level where most of [...]

graffiti lane

Not being a huge fan of Keith Haring’s, I was happy to see on my sunday stroll that after a year of being up, the tribute mural to him on Houston and Bowery has been replaced by a colorful, loud, very busy mural of little fantasy people living in a world of rainbows, patchwork whales, waterfalls, [...]

pixie land

Not too long ago, the LES was one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in manhattan – drugs, large homeless population on the bowery, punk rockers gone awry – but now, it’s really only dangerous to the credit card.   It is a hotbed of the best vintage and boutique shops,  and my personal favorite is the [...]