2017 was perhaps the most amazing year of my life, and I could not have asked for a better note to end my twenties on. When I made my 30 before 30 several years ago, I put all sorts of big and small things on it. I couldn’t say for sure if I would actually cross off any, I only knew then that turning 30 was supposed to be this ~big deal~, an event to …
Category: Just NYC Things
I have never been able to write poetry, but I have always enjoyed reading the works of those gifted in the art (namely, those who do not tag their work with #spilledink or break regular sentences into five different lines just to make it look like poetry). I’ll admit though, that outside of the works of Rabindranath Tagore translated into English from his native Bengali, I have never actually picked up a poetry book. So when …
Turning 29 was a low-key affair. Most of my friends and family live across the ocean, and TBH east coast gets much too cold to do anything significant outdoors come December. So for my birthday, we decided to FINALLY go watch a Broadway show, something we had planned for our anniversary earlier in the year (which never worked out because of various pet-emergency reasons). It was also one of the things on my 30 before 30. Everyone recommends that Lion King …
On my list of cool American things to try out as soon as I had the chance, was going for an outdoor movie screening. The kind where there is a projector set up, and people are out on the grass with chairs and pillows and blankets, and watch old movies. Nothing of this sort ever happened in India, not to my knowledge at least, and it sounded like a perfect date night opportunity to me. I am glad …
I read about the Manhattanhenge, or the Manhattan Solstice, many years ago. Twice a year the setting sun aligns with the streets of Manhattan, spilling the streets with an ethereal golden light, and hundreds of people gather to photograph this light phenomena. The name of this modern day event, comes from the Stonehenge, an English monument from ~3000 BC, where the setting sun aligned with the stone structure on the summer and the winter solstice. Living …
My first spring in New York City was colorful. We spent a sunny afternoon among tulips of the brightest and prettiest colors I have ever seen at West Side Community Garden’s Tulip Festival 2016. Then we strolled over to Central Park to catch some delicate little lavender and white cherry blossoms. I did not expect to feel as homesick as I have in these last few days, but I guess endless white winter can do that you. The flowers helped. Everything looked …