Posted in Back in the Borough, Subways, tagged Instagram on June 10, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Hi friends,
I snapped this shot today when I was taking the subway home from work. This is the entrance/exit to the Bleecker St. stop from the downtown 6, which is normally extremely packed.
Haunting.
Creepy, right? I just thought I’d share. I don’t think in my six years of living in this city I’ve ever seen the subway so empty. AND it was raining out, which normally makes the subway even more crowded.
Creepy.
Bis bald, friends!
Posted in Adventure Travel, Back in the Borough, Biking, Holiday Travel, tagged Baseball, Memorial Day on May 18, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Hi friends!
As the holiday weekend fast approaches (which I will gladly take after having JURY DUTY this upcoming week!), I’m getting excited for the plans Chris and I are making. On Friday night we’ll be heading to the Mets game (complete with a fireworks show!) with friends.
(P.S. We did this last year as well):
Then we’re renting bikes to ride in Central Park on either Saturday or Sunday and heading to a Brooklyn barbecue on Monday (also something we did last year, as well).
Hope you guys all have some fun plans for the holiday weekend, too!
Bis bald!
Posted in Back in the Borough, Drinks, Food on May 5, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Hi friends,
So yesterday was my sister’s boyfriend’s birthday, and they took a little day trip into the city to hang with us. Chris and I wandered through Central Park, across the Reservoir, to get to the West side, where we met up with the pair at The Boat Basin Cafe, an open-air cafe/bar right on the Hudson River.
After the Boat Basin, we walked down along the river, out onto the docks, and had some sangria while sitting outside at the Pier Cafe. We ended the night with burritos as Blockheads back on the east side, where you can never go wrong.
Some photos from our day:
Bis bald friends! Hope your weekend was just as sunny 
Posted in Back in the Borough, Video, tagged Video on March 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Hey ya’ll,
Thanks to one of my favorite bloggers, I’ve been tipped off to this amazing video:
Oh New York, you really do capture the hearts of so many, don’t you? The entire time I was watching this video I couldn’t help but play Dave Matthews’ Ants Marching in my head. So I found the YouTube video for it. I suggest you try it—it’s pretty fitting:
“Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
Driving in on this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
When all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way”
Posted in Back in the Borough, Food, Drinks, tagged Manhattan Restaurants, Alice's Tea Cup, Tea, UES on February 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Meeting a friend for tea feels oh-so-sophisticated.
Hi friends,
So I was out with another friend this morning at Alice’s Tea Cup, and I thought I’d throw up a quick post about it. If you’re a lover of tea (which I am not, but luckily the coffee is just as yummy!) or you have kids, this is a really fun place.
There are three locations around the city, but we visited Chapter III, over on 81st St. between 3rd and 2nd Ave. There are really cute decorations, they serve the coffee in humongous mugs …
And the scones are to die for …
Pumpkin and vegan banana scones with whipped cream and blueberry sauce. What?!
I glanced over at some of the tables around us, and the tea comes served in cute little tea kettles, too. We met up around 9:30 and the place was pretty empty, but by the time we left around 11 it was bumping.
Anyway, just a more sophisticated suggestion should you ever happen to be in this beautiful city. (You know, since my last blog post was about beer and pretzels!)
Bis bald, friends!
Posted in Back in the Borough, Cities, Food, Munich, Oktoberfest, tagged Beer Gardens and Houses, Manhattan Restaurants, Midtown on February 21, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Hey ya’ll,
Just a super quick post here to let you know that last night a friend and I hit up Bierhaus in midtown, a very fun beer hall that bears an uncanny (if somewhat small) resemblance to the Hofbrau House in Munich. (Which I talk about here, and here.)
It’s essentially one huge beer hall, with live music (including a band that plays all the traditional German Oktoberfest songs), amazing pretzels and humongous beer mugs.
What you get when you accidentally order the large beer instead of the medium.
I see nothing wrong on this plate.
So if you’re ever in the area, and you need a little community beer drinking only the way Munich can do it, I would highly suggest hitting up this fun beer hall.
Bis bald, friends! Oh, and I just booked my tickets for D.C. next week. Wednesday through Sunday, five whole days with one of my best friends. The best.
Posted in Back in the Borough, Nature!, Weather, tagged blizzard, Central Park on February 10, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Hi friends,
So we’ve pretty much dug ourselves out of snowstorm Nemo 2013 around here. Yesterday morning Chris and I took a snowy stroll to Central Park, and you know I couldn’t help but snap some photos along the way …
Posted in Back in the Borough, Food, Subways, tagged museums, UES on December 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Hi friends,
Welcome to December! So Christmas trees are back at the subway stations, and Chris and I took a jaunt to MoMA today to check out Edvard Munch’s famous painting, ‘The Scream.’
Let’s take a gander:
The tree stand outside of our 96th St. station, where we’ll probably pick up our own little piece of green heaven.
The Scream, Edvard Munch’s famous painting. It really is fantastic in person …
Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Claude Monet’s Water Lillies
A piece by Picasso
We stopped in the cafe for lunch while we were there. I had a delicious salad, Chris had the cheese tort and we shared the marinated olive platter. These were our delicious drinks.
Bis bald, friends! Hope your December is off to a great start, as well!
Posted in Back in the Borough, Travel Safety, Weather on October 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hurricane Sandy
Hey guys,
So we’re back from our Virginia weekend, and it was awesome! Seriously–the cabin was amazing, the game was so fun, tailgating was fantastic…it was all great.
So I’m going to do a big update on the awesomeness of Virginia, and this cabin, ASAP, but for now, we’re pretty much just getting ready for the biggest news of the day–Hurricane Sandy. We drove back yesterday from Virginia and didn’t get in until around 6 p.m., at which point the stores were pretty much cleaned out. We were able to get some water and pasta and cat food and toilet paper though … so let’s hope that holds out!
Wish us luck–and I’ll be back after the storm!
Bis bald, friends!
Posted in Back in the Borough, tagged Back in the Borough, Instagram, New York City on September 23, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Hi friends,
So this Thursday Chris and I are off on our little European adventure–Berlin, Munich, Venice and Rome.
I am sososososo excited!
Since we’ll be gone through the rest of September, I thought I’d update everyone on a couple of pics I snapped recently when we were out and about.
Here we go:
The next time you see me, I’ll have lots o’ European updates.
Bis bald, friends!
