Welcome to The City

Harlem

Posted October 12th, 2009 by maya Category: Welcome to The City, Why I Love New York Comments: 0

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 [...]

Powers Street: The Unofficial Tour*

Posted October 1st, 2009 by maya Category: Powers Home For Wayward Girls, Welcome to The City, Why I Love New York Comments: 0

*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 [...]

Isabella Rossellini is Holy

Posted September 19th, 2009 by maya Category: Great Art and Stuff, Welcome to The City, Why I Love New York Comments: 1

For my birthday, Emily got me a ticket to the Kandinsky opening at the Guggenheim (where she is a VIP employee), and I got to see this private show first, which was full of fancy-shmancy important people, none of whom I recognized (let’s be honest, as for important New York peeps, unless they play roles [...]

‘Cause Crazy People on the Subway Have Their Own Movies

Posted September 19th, 2009 by maya Category: Stars: They're NOTHING like us, Welcome to The City, Why I Love New York Comments: 0

Remember the crazy guy on the train? (see September 16th)…well, come to find out, he’s my first real NYC celebrity sighting! I think I’m in love with you, Rev. Billy.

Welcome to The City

Posted September 13th, 2009 by maya Category: Welcome to The City Comments: 0

So, I gotta leave the Hollyhood.  I know.  I’m sad too.  I have to relocate for a ghostwriting project which I can’t talk about until it is finalized.  But I will say this…I was destined to work on this project (my agent made me take that out of the book proposal…he said the word destined [...]

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