It is no secret that New Yorkers are a sour bunch. They take their *toughest people in the toughest city in the world* slogan very seriously and then of course they put it into practice in the *if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere* slogan by being in a sense bullies.
None [...]
11/12/2009
Categories: NYC POSTCARDS&PICTURES . Tags: adventures in nyc, angry new yorkers, christmas, dry humor, hilarity, new york city, santa claus, the holidays . Author: Nate . Comments: Leave a Comment
Ok, I unfortunately wasn’t able to get many pictures. For one thing, my sense of direction is still fucked so getting to the volunteer sign-in table was delayed by me going south when I thought I was going north. Then I was told to go one way to find the “dragons” and they weren’t anywhere [...]
01/11/2009
Categories: NYC POSTCARDS&PICTURES . Tags: adventures in nyc, halloween, village halloween parade . Author: Nate . Comments: 1 Comment
Before I even talk about these pictures I must share the following: I was getting a surprise b-day strawberry cake for my roommate at a patisserie (name omitted, don’t want to get anyone fired) around midtown, when the sudden unmistakable smell of pot just hit me and the shop boy (someone walking by had been [...]
20/10/2009
Categories: NYC POSTCARDS&PICTURES . Tags: adventures in nyc, random pictures, nyc stories, american museum of natural history, planetarium . Author: Nate . Comments: Leave a Comment
I have seen the Empire State Building so many times…. I remember the first time I saw it in person some 5 years ago and the painfully long wait it took to go up to the observatory. For those who haven’t done it, they make you circle (practically) the whole lobby until you finally get [...]
18/10/2009
Categories: NYC POSTCARDS&PICTURES . Tags: adventures in nyc, empire state building, random pictures . Author: Nate . Comments: Leave a Comment
I’ve been playing tourist and taking random pictures all over the place…. must be the rain’s influence or something.
The Dakota may not be the coolest looking building in all of NY but it certainly has its allure. I’ve always fantasized about living there and this has nothing to do with John Lennon but with two [...]
17/10/2009
Categories: NYC POSTCARDS&PICTURES . Tags: adventures in nyc, ira levin, john saul, midnight voices, random pictures, rosemary's baby, the dakota . Author: Nate . Comments: 2 Comments
Lord, I’ve been so busy this past week and change! I’ve been having a blast roaming around the streets of NYC and being completely amuse by small things that would otherwise be completely unimportant to most but to me are awesome. Example: The mariachi bands playing for money in the subway cars for like 2 minutes [...]
12/09/2009
Categories: UNCATEGORIZED . Tags: adventures in nyc, moving to nyc . Author: Nate . Comments: 2 Comments