All Entries in the "See & Plays" Category
Still Time To Head Out To The Ball Game at Citi Field
From the moment the train whooshes to a stop at Mets-Willets Point on a game day, you can sense the excitement in the air. Even as autumn begins, the crowd still rushes from the LIRR and subway, up the steps to see what remains of the Mets inaugural season in the new Citi Field. I [...]
Sex and the City Tour
On Location Tours offers several different kinds of New York City tours, but the Sex and the City tour called to me the loudest. My friends and I are total Sex and the City junkies; we own the fuzzy pink-covered Sex and the City complete series DVDs, the movie, and will be purchasing our tickets [...]
Growing Up in The Arms of The New Victory Theater
We recently featured The New Victory Theatre as one of the Top NYC Children’s Theaters, but I wanted to revisit this wonderful place here and share with you all the exciting things going on there. I first noticed the theater a few years ago and though I never went inside, I always found it to [...]
Getting to Know Hoboken, NJ
Growing up in a small town in Ohio with only 4,000 people, if you had told me that each subsequent move I made (except one) would be to a bigger city than the prior one, I wouldn’t have believed it. I subsequently moved to 1) Columbus, Ohio, 2) Chicago, Illinois, 3) Mexico City (yes, the [...]
Ride back in time on the Prospect Park Carousel
When we first moved to Brooklyn and were invited to a birthday party at the Prospect Park Carousel, I didn’t realize that the party would have the carousel all to itself. The site of the kids riding the horses over and over for two hours brought back a flood of memories from my own childhood [...]
Commune with Nature at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Did you know that there is a wonderful nature getaway a short subway ride away in Brooklyn? The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a little (OK, not so little) swath of land carved out from the hustle and bustle in Brooklyn. It’s smaller than the New York Botanical Garden, but it’s a wonderful and accessible place [...]
