These guys spend at least a week preparing the local Powers garden (not THE OLIVE GARDEN, the other one a half block down that people can actually ENTER) for Halloween.  And, according to Emily, the decorations will stay up at least until Christmas.

I love the industrial part of Williamsburg by the river.  Yeah, there are a few condos being put in, but it still has a factory/warehouse feel to it.  And sometimes you run across surprises in all this metal and concrete.  Turn a corner, and there are hidden pictures on the wall:

Non-sequitur:  I once went to [...]

Okay, you all know about my Bulgaria fetish by now, specifically my obsession with one family.  And for any of you who doubted how absolutely adorable they are, let me enter the following evidence for your perusal:

So Zack got to come to NYC (without my beloved Sara and Silvia, which totally sucks…but Sara is coming [...]

Okay, so you ask anyone about Harlem, and they will tell you “Oh, it’s sooooooo safe now.  I mean, it’s totally gentrified.”
Not to make any judgements (as if that ever stopped me before), but most of these experts are white and have never been to Harlem.   Or, if they have, they have never been past [...]

*aka all the shit you ain’t gonna see on one of those thirty buck double-decker sightseeing tours you get in Times Square

Why waste your time at Saks, when you got your own Powers Street Personal Shopper?

Dolly has lived on Powers Street forev-ah.  She knows all the drama.  She’ll tell you the history of every hoodlum [...]