there’s no place like NYC…

seriously! as you already know I am a little obsessed with this place and not in a misguided, unhealthy way, but more, how can there be so many fantastic things about one city?!  Last night I had the chance to see Lance Armstrong, Joan Benoit-Samuelson, Grete Waitz and Deena Kastor speak at the Times Talks [...]

Growing up in ManhattanStyle with sports in the 70′s and early 80′s

My first confession is I am not from Manhattan, I grew up in Northern Jersey about 20 miles from the city, it was a 45 minute bus ride if you took the 77 from Northfield Avenue to the Port Authority on 42nd Street in Manhattan, if you avoided rush hour. But if you grew up [...]

Growing up in NYC

Let me begin by saying I am a native New Yorker. I was born and raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and lived in the same apartment building for 23 of the first 24 years of my life. I went to high school in the Bronx; not the Bronx that you are probably [...]

I heart NYC

It’s really simple.  I love this city.  Somehow when I was growing up in the “valley” of San Fernando, aka L.A., I always knew Manhattan was the place I had to be.  Who knows how we know these things but I just knew.  My life took a few different turns and for a while, I [...]