At odds in the Big Apple: How accessible is the city that never sleeps? Before I begin on the contents of this blog, I hope you all had a fun filled Halloween. Throughout my life I have always prided my self on how many obstacles I have overcome. How I have learned to live my… Read more »
“Tommy, get my bag,” My grandmother barked. It was February 1965, I was 11. ‘Oh, Christ,’ I thought. Slowly, I made my way through the railroad flat looking for Nan’s pocketbook. The gang box weighed more than my little brother, and when I heaved the thing up, I imagined Nan in the audience on… Read more »
One of the first things that people ask when they take my tour is if I’ve met Sarah Jessica Parker. Actually, what they really ask is “Have you met her?”—that breathy her the only indication necessary to let me know just who they mean. SJP. Her. Celebrity sightings in New York are fairly common. Just… Read more »
Feel like getting in the mood for Halloween? Growing up in Manhattan, I took every opportunity I could to scare myself. I loved being spooked. I ate up every horror movie as a kid and listened to countless tall tales and read every ghost story on the planet. After all these years, there is only… Read more »
When you’re a tour guide in a city like New York, you often have to supplement your income with other jobs in order to pay the bills. As regular readers of “Almost Carrie” know, my primary job requires me to follow in the footsteps of Miss Bradshaw. What readers may not know however, is that my… Read more »
I got married in a BCBGMAXAZRIA party dress that I ordered online from Nordstrom’s for $288. Because my dress budget was low, my shoe budget was high. Until that point, the most expensive shoes I’d ever purchased were a pair of Steven by Steve Madden satin paisley d’Orsay pumps for $89.99, which I adored and… Read more »
I travel. A lot So why is it that of all the airports in the world (Third World included), the airport that frustrates me most is JFK? Yes, I know it’s old. Yes, I know that when it was first started in 1943 no one could have conceived it would ever become so big and… Read more »
the PRESIDENCY What good is being top of the heap when the heap is a pile of shit? INTELLIGENCE Intelligence is a burden from which the only relief is intelligence. LEADERSHIP I choose not to lead for fear of the characters who may follow. FRIENDS There is a major difference between friendliness and friendship. UNIQUE-NESS… Read more »
Can you be in love with a city—real, complex, complicated love? Absofuckinglutely. Can you be irritated, frustrated, and pissed with said city? Posifuckingtively. After posting last week’s ode to New York, I read a refreshing, candid article in W magazine (I know—it’s the last place I’d expect to find anything refreshing and candid either) by… Read more »
On October 4, 1965, the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Stephen of Hungary’s student body marched up to Third Avenue to wave to Pope Paul VI driving by on his way to Yankee Stadium in his limousine.This was important to me on a few levels: We were getting out of sixth grade… Read more »
