Ask a New Yorker: I’m with Marea, who is one of our favorite contributors on AANYer . She is Uber in many, many ways. Ask a New Yorker: What is a Tasmanian Devil? Marea: It’s a little marsupial creature that’s not very sociable. They don’t even socialize with each other except to mate. They can… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: My first question is, when you were growing up did you ever have a lemonade stand? Cheryl: Yes I did, as a matter of fact. That seems like a hundred years ago. Of course, I can remember my sister and me standing out there selling lemonade for five cents. It probably… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: Dell Long. What a pleasant sounding name. What are your origins? Dell: Long is an English/Irish name and so is Dell meaning a valley. My Daddy, a jolly Irishman, was a peach farmer and friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Georgia. He was among the first people to… Read more »
My dear friend Dell Long, public relations guru, recently introduced me to Angie. Now a week later I’m sitting here at Mr. Lee Lee’s bakery in Harlem, which incidentally has the best rugallah in the world. Ask a New Yorker: Hello Angie. What do you do? Angie: I run a company called Experience Harlem. Experience… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: I am with Julian, who I met through Craigslist. He is a talented graphic artist who will be doing some t-shirt designs for Ask a New Yorker. Julian, how long have you lived in New York? Julian: I got here at the end of September 2007. So, it has not been… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: I’m sitting here with Josephine, the owner of Elia on the upper west side, a Dominican hair Salon! If you go to Google and search “Dominican Hair Salon”, Ask a New Yorker is the third result you get, due to this thread, the most popular thread on AskaNewYorker. So, we thought… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: Tell us a little about yourself? Bob: I’m a Manhattan megalomaniac, meaning I do way too many things well, which makes people depressed, angry or confused. Ask a New Yorker: How long have you lived in Manhattan? Bob: Thirty years. Ask a New Yorker: Tell us about some of the things… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: I’m sitting here with Dorothy Wiggins in her lovely Greenwich Village brownstone. Hello Dorothy Wiggins, what a lovely sounding name, I feel as though your name has been peeled from the pages of a Somerset Maugham novel. “Mrs. Wiggins was passing a grove of bamboos and they leaned over the causeway… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: I’m sitting here with Marvella (Uberchic January 2006), who was kind enough to invite me over for dinner to meet a ‘mystery guest’. Thank you for inviting me over this evening Marv. Who is this young lady you’ve asked me to meet, who is sitting to my right? Marvella: You have… Read more »
AskaNewYorker: What’s going on in your life? Adonia: My son, who lives and works here in New York, has a birthday this week. I’m from California and I came in with my best friend from high school. I grew up here in the East. We came and spent three days touring together, doing touristy things… Read more »
