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New York! Just Like I Pictured It, Sorta. Well, No.
by Sharon Watts 03/16/2016Neighborhood: Hell's Kitchen, Midtown
Stepping outside the slightly threadbare art deco hotel lobby—which I refused to perceive as anything but Busby Berkeley glamorous—I melded into the midtown throng. While no one looked like Holly Golightly, I was not going to be disappointed on my first day in New York City. Not if I had any say in the matter. […]
Jersey Nights on Broadway
by Lisa Romeo 03/14/2016Neighborhood: Midtown
We saw Jersey Boys on Broadway not long ago, and it was a grand show, but of course we’re Italian-Americans from northern New Jersey, my husband and I, and our two boys, so naturally we’d love it. Frank and I are just old enough that we remember Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons not as […]
Hell’s Kitchen and All That Jazz
by Sharon Watts 04/09/2015Neighborhood: Hell's Kitchen
I was dropped off in Hell’s Kitchen with my turquoise vinyl trunk, my art school scholarship, and the soundtrack to Midnight Cowboy sensurrounding my dreams. Everybody’s talking at me I don’t hear a word they’re saying Only the echoes of my mind I was eighteen, and ready for the 1970s. On my own. My stepfather-to-be […]