About Us
NY Metropolista is a family-friendly site and the embodiment of everything and anything that New York has to offer.
Our talented and dynamic collaborators from diverse New York neighborhoods and backgrounds will share their voice and experiences to give you the inside scoop of all those things that make living in and around the city fun and easier. We will provide resources to make it easier to make plans, whether it be for a play date or a romantic night out on the town; provide insights on how we balance all those important elements in our lives (family, career, home, relationship, and self); and we will share the buzz on the exclusive latest and greatest spots and events as well as some of the long forgotten faves. Some of the things you can expect from us:
- Top New York spots to eat, shop, and play for you and your family to enjoy
- Exclusive deals and coupons for our NY Metropolista readers
- The latest family friendly events all across the city
- Our views about New York’s Art, Style, Fashion, Lifestyle, and Culture
NY Metropolista is owned and operated by City Connect Media, Inc – “Linking Communities Everywhere”. NY Metropolista is the sister site of the fabulous Chicagonista, based in Chicago, IL.
Carol Cain
Carol is the Managing Editor of NY Metropolista and a freelance Travel Writer. She is a native New Yorker, born in Brooklyn. As a true lover of everything New York City, when not traveling, she spends most of her time revisiting her favorite spots or discovering new ones throughout the city.
She is a former publishing and public relations professional, with an MBA in International Relations. A nomadic spirit, with a love for different cultures, languages, and customs, she has traveled (and sometimes even lived) in more countries and cities than most, she enjoys a good adventure and trying something new, at least once. After a short stint away from her beloved city, she has returned, but this time with kids in tow. You can read her Travel and Lifestyle articles and about many of her adventure at The Adventures of a NYCity Mama.
She also writes for TravelingMom.com, Uptake.com’s Attraction Blog and Lodging Blog, and Trekaroo. She shares her adventures in the hopes of helping other families discover all the food, fun, and activities this wonderful city has to offer.
Follow Carol on Twitter at www.twitter.com/nycitymama
Esti Berkowitz
A nice Jewish girl from the Midwest who turned around one day and noticed she had three kids under three, Esti had moved to New York City via Jerusalem, and had become an observant Jew.
After graduating from Stephen’s College she worked as a marketing executive in the big, bad corporate world of tech. At 33, she traded in her corporate card and studied at She’arim College of Jewish Studies for Women in Israel. About a year after she returned, this time to NYC, she found herself under the Chuppah, and now, although she calls herself a SAHM, she has started a couple of widely followed blogs as well as engaged in various social media projects. Esti blogs about marriage, pregnancy, and parenting after 35 at Primetime Parenting. Esti also blogs about her life as an observant Jew and her new found love for kosher food, eating matzah, and Shabbat at Sheitel and Strollers.
Esti most recently launched Jewish Shmooz Network blogtalkradio.com. She hosts her own radio show once a week and interviews Jewish entrepreneurs as well as mompreneurs. She also co-hosts Socialmediarap with Beth Rosen and is part of the Role Mommy Radio Network.
Kristina Daniele
Kristina Brooke, who blogs at Mom on the Rise, is a Bronx native and has lived all over NY currently residing in Yonkers. After graduating with a BS in English from SUNY-Oneonta, she returned to The Bronx to teach ninth grade English while earning a Masters in Teaching from Fordham University. An Internet junkie, eventually her interest in online opportunities and the desire to homeschool her daughter compelled her to leave teaching and return to her roots of writing and online entrepreneurship.
Kristina is Co-Founder of Moms of Hue and the We of Hue Network, two sites focused on giving women and moms of color a voice in the social media community. She is the Blogger Outreach Coordinator for Traveling Mom where she also writes as Traveling Black&White Mom and hosts TravelingMomTV every Friday night at 8:30 on MomTV. She also runs a consulting business at KristinaBrooke.org.
When not online you can find her exploring NY with an educational twist, her husband and their daughter in tow.
Follow Kristina on twitter at twitter.com/momontherise and twitter.com/kristinadaniele
Linda Grant
Linda was born in Okinawa, Japan and lived there until age 7 when she moved to the United States. Because of her racial background (her mother was Japanese and her father was African-American) and her family’s constant movement from city to city, Linda has developed a sense of adventure and love of travel which has taken her from Asia to Europe to South America.
Linda and her adopted daughter now live in downtown Manhattan. In 2008, Linda started New York City Single Mom.com, a lifestyle website devoted to the concerns, challenges and triumphs of single moms in New York City.
Prior to founding the site, Linda was a marketer for several Fortune 50 companies. Most recently, she worked in the financial services industry and, like so many hundreds of thousands of people, was laid off in December 2008. This gave her opportunity to follow her dream to pursue her writing.
While she is in search of her next job, she is writing a book focused on her experience as an Japanese/African American single woman adopting a child. She hopes to share her story with others and provide some humor, insight and a very new twist on traditional adoption.
Follow Linda on Twitter at www.twitter.com/nycsinglemom
Corine Ingrassia
Prior to becoming a Mom of 2 beautiful children (Ryan, 4yr , Delaina, 1yr) and the wife to the most handsome geek in the world, this accidental suburban housewife was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and raised in Staten island (the forgotten borough). Though never living in “THE CITY” (aka- Manhattan) you can frequently find her there looking to experience all of its many hidden gems.
With a background in both PR and Advertising, when this social butterfly made the move from full-time worker to full-time mother, she laid down the ground work for her local party planning buisness www.thesugarontop.com and made some “virtual co workers” for herself by joining the mommy blogging community at her site www.complicatedmama.com.
Heidi Leder
Heidi Leder, a former tech PR professional turned work-at-home-mom and blogger is an eternal tourist at heart. Having raised her son in Silicon Valley, Chicago and currently New Jersey, she relishes the similarities and differences in raising kids from coast-to-coast and delights in exploring new places, shops and restaurants in the greater NYC area. You may likely run into her on a train, plane, bus or road around NYC when she’s not relaxing at home, working out, or baking. A former personal trainer specializing in pre- and post-natal fitness, she spends as much time as possible with her family outdoors. Heidi tracks her family’s travel and adventures from coast to coast at Coast to Coast Mom, and contributes to the New Jersey Moms Blog and Techlicious.com.
Follow Heidi on Twitter: www.twitter.com/c2cmom.
Issa M. Mas
Issa is a native New Yorker and an advocate for Single Moms everywhere. She currently writes a column for Examiner.com on family events in New York City. A passion for writing began early for Issa; she was presented her first award for a piece of her writing at only 7 years old by then-New York City Mayor Edward Koch as a city-wide winner of a poetry contest. Issa is a published poet, writer of children’s books, blogger (Single Mama NYC), and founder of Your Single Parenting, a resource website inclusive of all single parents.
Follow Issa on Twitter at www.twitter.com/singlemamanyc.
Jessie Nuez
Born and raised in Manhattan, Jessie has spent over 10 years in the customer service/retail industry; Jessie has held positions in human resources, operations and visual merchandising at various fortune 500 companies. In these roles, Jessie was responsible for building and leading teams helping grow and expand company operations and initiatives.
Now living on Staten Island for 6 years with her husband, son and two Pomeranians, Jessie and her husband have co-founded promotedPrescence. This company is a new media agency where they work with small and mid-sized companies; to improve online business communications through the use of social media platforms, community platforms and other emerging web technologies.
Along with this business venture, Jessie also writes in her personal work; Hecho Para Mama, a bilingual blog which highlights motherhood from a Latina’s perspective as well as being the Executive Director for BabySpot New York a networking community for NYC parents
Follow Jessie on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jessienuez.
Amy Oztan
Amy has been living with her husband and two kids in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn for the past seven years. Raised in Buffalo NY, Amy has somehow developed a reputation as a suburban mom without ever having lived in the suburbs.
Besides being a founding NY Metropolista writer, Amy’s opinions and videos can be found in way too many places. After getting her start blogging about her brownstone renovation onbrownstoner.com, Amy started Filming In Brooklyn and Selfish Mom in 2008 and both have exceeded her wildest expectations in a very short time. She also writes for the NYC Moms Blog, and edits the NYC section of Famplosion.com. She also recently started writing for Examiner.com, and fully expects to have a sleep-deprived psychotic episode in the near future. In her free time, Amy sings in a church choir and takes the occasional acting job. Amy desperately hopes the world remembers her for being witty, smart, and talented, and not at all terrified and awkward.
Eric Payne
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Eric made the move to New York City after attending Cornell and Binghamton Universities where he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees respectively. He’s worked as a community relations specialist who has worked in corporate and non-profit America creating opportunities for several of New York City’s underserved populations of youth and young adults.
In February 2008, he launched Makes Me Wanna Holler, a blog about his experiences as a man, a dad of two kids spaced ten years apart, and a husband living and working in New York City. It has since grown to be a place of inspiration, comic relief and reflection for parents, both new and seasoned. He’s also a regular contributor at the lifestyle websites Black And Married With Kids and MochaManual.com and J’Adore Magazine.
Since 1999, his short stories and poetry have appeared in literary magazines in print and online. He’s also the author of a book of poetry and short stories, I See Through Eyes.
Follow Eric on Twitter at twitter.com/MakesMeHoller.
Together with her husband and son, Jen lives in Hoboken, NJ, which might as well be considered the 6th borough. In addition to her personal and kid blogs, Jen was recently tapped to be a parent blogger for WNET Channel 13, the NYC affiliate for PBS.
Follow Jen on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jenrab.
Faye Rogaski
Founder of socialsklz:-) Faye Rogaski is the President of Faye Elizabeth Communications, Inc., a public relations firm in New York City that advises celebrities, authors and business experts on effective communications strategies and brand building. Over the last 12 years, Ms. Rogaski has worked with clients including Elizabeth Taylor, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Marilyn Monroe Estate, Gilda’s Club, and the BBC. She is a graduate of Boston College where she majored in communications and a graduate of the International School of Protocol. Ms. Rogaski is an adjunct professor of communications at New York University. Previously she was an adjunct professor of marketing at Fordham Graduate School of Business. She is the President of the American Heart Association (AHA) Young Professionals and is a spokesperson and lobbyist for the AHA. Based on her professional experience, academic training and a passion to empower our young people, Ms. Rogaski developed socialsklz:-) manners for the modern world to empower children, tweens and teens with the confidence and self-esteem to thrive at school, in any social setting and life in general.
Naima Sanowar
Naima was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She migrated to NYC and attended Brooklyn College where she graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts . Over the past 10 years she has been self employed as a real estate developer, recently taking up writing as a way to vent and share her feelings as a new mum , which she chronicles in her blog Diaries of an Alphamum. Naima presently lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with her wonderful hubby Joseph and her amazing 4 year old son Jaden, in a brownstone that they designed themselves and took them 2 years to renovate. Naima take’s full advantage of all the exciting adventures NYC has to offer her and her family…from lazy Sunday afternoon’s with son and hubby in tow having a fabulous brunch at The Standard in the Meatpacking District to spending all day on a Saturday with other mum’s and kids at the Museum of Natural History, where they take lingering walks looking at the Stars, Dinosaurs, touching real butterflies. She is devoted to her son and hubby but working daily to also be true to herself. She says, “I was fun and out-going before I had my son whether it was at work, at home, or at a cocktail party and I strive to still do it all with style, smarts, grace and well I am still working on this one , seemingly without effort, as a Mum”.
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