by Jackie | Around NYC, The One With
Despite living within spitting distance of a dozen world-class museums, I haven’t stepped foot inside any of them in a long, long time. Problem is, once you live here for a while you tend to, well, live here. There are errands to run and clothes to wash and the...
by Jackie | Around NYC, The One With
Sometimes people don’t know how to stay out of trouble until they get a swift reality check by, say, ending up in jail. Enter my high school friend Toby. He was a pimply, freckle-faced kid with hair leaning more toward strawberry than blond, prompting a lot of...
by Jackie | Around NYC, The One With
Instead of shopping on “black Friday,” I’ll be taking in the sights and sounds of the season right here in Brooklyn. Come along with me to the neighborhood of Dyker Heights. Bet your neighbors don’t do Christmas like this… If Rockefeller...
by Jackie | Around NYC, The One With, Writing Life
Last weekend was the eighth Brooklyn Book Festival, and every year the event gets bigger and better. This year attendance was estimated at 40,000 people throughout the day, and it gives me some small hope that reading is alive and well. I spent a good chunk of the...
by Jackie | Around NYC, The One With, Work 'n Such
There are few things that unite New Yorkers as much as manmade scarcity of luxury items. One such item, just a few inches in diameter, captured the imagination of Gothamites this summer. I, refer of course, to the Cronut™. Is it a croissant? Is it a doughnut? My...
by Jackie | Around NYC, The One With
A few days ago, a friend and I went to the US Open in Flushing, Queens. It’s one of the four major tennis tournaments (aka Grand Slams) held each year. The world’s top players compete in increasingly difficult matches until the final determines the...
