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The World Premiere of The BlackTop Circus Arrives in NYC & GIVEAWAY!

The World Premiere of The BlackTop Circus Arrives in NYC & GIVEAWAY!

UPDATE: Grand Opening for this event has been moved to Friday, March 19th.
For the first-time-ever, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to experience some of the country’s greatest young circus artists and hip-hop talent in one spectacular variety show as The Blacktop Circus: Where The Big Top Meets The City Streets hits the stage at [...]

Finding Nature in Westchester’s Tibbetts Brook Park

Finding Nature in Westchester’s Tibbetts Brook Park

As a native New Yorker (Bronx-raised), much of my childhood centered on family picnics in Pelham Bay Park and playing sports as a teenager in Central Park. I loved the time spent outside enjoying the fresh air. In fact, my love of nature inspired me to move to rural Oneonta, NY for college and after [...]

Visit New York City Movie Location Sites

Visit New York City Movie Location Sites

For as long as they have been making movies, New York City has been the place to shoot them. Many of the locations of key scenes in movies filmed on the streets of New York City can be visited today, and here is just a very small listing of several to choose from:
Stand over the [...]

“Be The Star That You Are” at Galli’s Fairy Tale Theater

“Be The Star That You Are” at Galli’s Fairy Tale Theater

Just off 5th Ave, a few blocks away from Bryant Park, on 38 West 38th St., you will find an very unassuming entrance to a building, much like any other in NYC. Take the elevator to the 3rd floor however, and you will enter Galli’s Fairy Tale Theater.  A small stage, with a few rows [...]

Family Fun Plays and Activities This Holiday Season

Family Fun Plays and Activities This Holiday Season

The holidays are upon us, and the kids are off from school. Great fun indeed, until the cabin fever starts to set in. What to do? What to do? If you’re the New York Metro area you are in luck!
This Holiday week is full of tons of things to do, and though the tourists have [...]

A Charlie Brown Christmas With Jazz Trio…LIVE, The Brooklyn Lyceum

A Charlie Brown Christmas With Jazz Trio…LIVE, The Brooklyn Lyceum

I am super excited to be part of this wonderful NYMetropolista family. To be given the opportunity to share with you any new, exciting, off the beaten path places,activities I come across on my many adventures with my family throughout New York City
I am a little late with this review with just three more dates left I [...]

A Hidden Gem on the Outskirts of New York City

A Hidden Gem on the Outskirts of New York City

Looking for a Broadway show without all the hustle and bustle of the busy New York City streets? Well, I have found the perfect spot! It’s called the Westchester Broadway Theatre and it just minutes away from the Big Apple in a tranquil Westchester neighborhood. You get the same effect of attending a Broadway [...]

NYC Department Store Holiday Window Tour

NYC Department Store Holiday Window Tour

The night before Thanksgiving, while y’all may have been on a plane, prepping for a feast, or in line for a pre-parade glimpse of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day balloons, I was getting re-acquainted with an old friend: the holiday windows at our fabulous NYC department stores. It’s the only time my hubby doesn’t cringe when I say I’m heading [...]

The Radio City Christmas Show: For A Lifetime of Memories

The Radio City Christmas Show: For A Lifetime of Memories

The Radio City Christmas show has long been a family tradition of mine, that my husband and I started passing on with our children over the past 3 years, and it’s become an experience we all look forward to every year to “kick” off our holiday season.
We first took our son when he was 2 [...]

Downtown Giants Youth Football League

Downtown Giants Youth Football League

When we lived in Madison, WI, my now 12 year old had discovered his love for football. Strangely enough, he, like his Dad, doesn’t follow football on television or sports magazines, but he loves playing the game. When the decision came about to move to New York City, my son had only one request: that [...]