It's nearly Christmas here in NYC, in my humble opinion one of the most beautiful places at this time of year, with lights and trees and festive cocktails wherever you look. I still find the chirpy 'happy holidays' greeting a bit discombobulating, though I appreciate the attempt to be all inclusive…. Especially as a heathen […]

There is a strangely disproportionate amount of wall art in the area immediately surrounding us. Here's a selection for you. I'm pretty sure the first three are done by the same artist, who must have offered some sort of buy two, get one free deal. The beautiful Park Slope library (of COURSE they have a […]

It probably goes without saying (which isn't going to stop me from saying it) that finding decent places to sublet is largely a matter of luck. Fortunately for myself and Mr, we tend to receive preferential treatment from subletters. Partly, as I've said before, because many Americans seem to save a little soft spot for […]

So, we've moved to Park Slope, an area which I once described to me as the most Brooklyn of all Brooklyn areas, which was not a compliment. This is the Brooklyn that makes some people hate Brooklyn, Park Slope is the hipster of neighborhoods, the area everyone loves to hate. Though it's actually less hipster […]

After spending our first two months in central Manhattan, I started to widen the hunt for our next apartment. Almost everyone we met lived in Brooklyn anyway and we'd finally accepted that taking the subway to work wasn't such a deal breaker (we're a little slow on the uptake sometimes). Brooklyn is absolutely enormous, in […]

I've written before about the Brooklyn flea markets, held every weekend in Williamsburg and Fort Greene. The same collective also run two food markets every weekend, Smorgasburgs, in Williamsburg (natch) and DUMBO. A couple of weeks ago we visited the latter, for the last market of the season. We spent our time munching through the […]

Our next move was to a studio apartment in midtown, at 54th and 2nd. Our expectations significantly lowered by our last experience, the fact that this place had an actual bed (as opposed to a slightly wonky and uncomfortable sofa bed, or a blow up mattress situated in the sweatiest room in the whole of […]

We’ve been in NYC for almost five months now (doesn’t time fly, etc etc). Mr is freelancing, so we’re never quite sure how much longer we’ll be here, as there’s always the chance that he’ll suddenly get work on a film and we’ll have to move somewhere completely new. This means all our apartments have […]

Recently while waiting for a train at my local Subway Station, I spotted a curious little poster sellotaped to an advert on the wall*. It seems that someone is looking for love, don't get too excited though ladies, one night stands only. He is very eclectic in his offerings, despite deciding before even meeting anyone […]

An old friend passed through New York yesterday, on the way from the UK to a business trip in Charlotte. He'd never been to the city before and was only here for a few hours, so I took him on a whistlestop tour of the most iconic and obvious places I could think of. What […]