Posted in Beautiful Things, Home Shuling, Jewish Life, Kid style, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged bar mitzvah gifts, charity, donation, giving, Lion's Share Food Pantry, mitzvah, soup kitchen, volunteering kids on August 12, 2019| 1 Comment »
This boy gave a big portion of his bar mitzvah $$$ gifts to the local food pantry where he volunteers, and they sure did stock up on necessities for fall! We can’t believe how much they could purchase with his donation .. I’m so proud of my boy for paying it forward.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Fun in NYC, Queens Life, Travel, tagged 1950s, 1960s, abandoned terminal at JFK, architecture, bar in a plane, classic cars, Eero Saarinen, flight attendant uniforms, furniture design, JKF Airport, midcentury modern, midcentury modern design, TWA Hotel, vintage clothes on August 7, 2019| 1 Comment »
I don’t really even have to say much here other than .. WOW. Did this TWA Terminal at JFK Airport really stand still in time like this? How much revamping do you have to do to an already gorgeous Saarinen design like this? While dropping Ezra off for a flight (AND upon returning to get him) we had to go into this place twice and enjoy the piped in rat pack music, vintage cars, and ohhhh so much gorgeous Saarinen lines in poppy colors (that red!) And yes, there is a bar in that plane outside..
Need I say more? I’ll shut up now and let you enjoy the photos of this hotel that is somewhat of a museum:
Posted in Alley life, Beautiful Things, Fun in NYC, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged children, Corona Ice King of Queens, friends and neighbors, garden party, kids, Lemon Ice King Corona, outdoor movies, outdoor parties, parenting, summer, summer fun on August 5, 2019| 2 Comments »
How is everyone’s summer going? Now that Ezra’s big event is over, the summer feels like one great big exhale. The kids have camps by day but otherwise we’ve had hot and steamy (or sometimes cool and breezy) party nights in crammed urban backyards with friends.
OR lemonade stands and trips to Corona Ice King by day ..
OR more evening fun in the way of outdoor movies in a neighbor’s yard (LOVE Ferris Bueller’s Day Off!)
What have YOU been up to ? As always – it’s all going by so quickly as summer does:
Posted in Beautiful Things, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged Zoe's birthday! on January 17, 2019| 3 Comments »
This sweet little girl turned 9 yesterday. I got to go into her class with 32 (yes, 32!) cupcakes for all 31 kids and her teacher. We sang happy birthday, ate up the sweets and then passed around little phone books so the kids could take down numbers and have playdates (or just use the tiny book with their dolls). I can’t believe 9 years have passed so quickly. We love you Zoe!
me and Z in her class
Yum! Gluten free cupcakes!
and a shot of Zoe on the day she was born… so pretty, right?
Posted in Beautiful Things, Fun in NYC, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged children, hunter's point, kids, landscaping, Long Island City, NY, NYC, parenting, Queens, Queens NY, recreation, renewing coastal living, urban gardening, waterfront park on November 16, 2018| 1 Comment »
During Veteran’s Day we stumbled on the new Hunter’s Point coastal walk … one of many new and improved ‘coastlines’ of Queens. There are others around Manhattan and Brooklyn – see here: (https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/9/17667488/new-york-domino-park-hunters-point-south-photo-essay.) When I first came to NYC in 1989 it seemed liked so much of this land was used for tossing trash, or vacant and ignored. It’s so great to see it now is used as recreation area and more saliently, landscaped in a way that’s good for promoting ‘run off’ to keep city toxins out of the soil. I love how the grasses here were planting to facilitate this – while at the same time avoiding land erosion. Best of all it seems to last year round (colors looking good in the fall, and perhaps even staying around for the winter).
Posted in Alley life, Beautiful Things, Fun in NYC, Holidays, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged candy swap, children, costumes, dia de los muertos, Eleven, fall foliage, family, Frida Khalo, halloween, kids, October, parenting, Stranger Things, suffragette, trick or treating on November 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »
We had a great little segue into fall … with leaves slowly turning color, and another somewhat balmy Halloween night. Even though it was a school night – kids were out in droves collecting candy on our street. Bye for now October… it’s been a LOT of fun.
autumn light outside..
and inside (Louie on the footstool)
teachers walking the kids around the block on Halloween day
and some even dressed up!
Zoe and classmates got pumpkins to decorate
Neighbors on our street lookin’ good!
Stranger Things…
and ‘Eleven’ from Stranger Things
Zoe and buds
Neighbors ready for the crowds with candy
E was ‘watermelon man’ with Herbie Hancock’s tune playing from under his costume..
end of the night candy swap
Posted in Beautiful Things, Fun in NYC, Parenting, Queens Life, tagged decorations, Halloween prep, ice skating, October, old school costumes, start of cooler weather on October 9, 2018| 1 Comment »
I’m not necessarily ready for cooler weather but clearly Zoe is: she likes to ice skate with her classmate Lily lately. Since Lily takes skating lessons, I just let her tie on Zoe’s skates and teach her the ropes – and I basically stand around waiting to be useful .
We are already seeing signs of “Halloween night preparation” in our ‘hood – and I found this crazy old pix of me and my brothers in our home-made costumes in the ’70s. I wonder if this will inspire my own kids’ ideas for costumes this year?
I hear that Lily gets up at 5 a.m. for skate lessons so .. I’m unnecessary here
this fearless little one
off she goes!
neighbors already getting creative
me and my brothers – I guess one of us has a store-bought costume but the others are made from scratch!
